COMMON SECURITY FOR OUR COMMON HUMANITY
AT MOMENTS of great peril in the last century, American leaders such as Franklin Roosevelt, HarryTruman, andJohn F. Kennedy managed both to protect the American people and to expand opportunity for the next generation. What is more, they ensured that America, by deed and example, led and lifted the world-that we stood for and fought for the freedoms sought by billions of people beyond our borders.
As Roosevelt built the most formidable military the world had ever seen, his Four Freedoms gave purpose to our struggle against fascism. Truman championed a bold new architecture to respond to the Soviet threat-one that paired military strength with the
Marshall Plan and helped secure the peace