Ratification of NATO
"There is not much strength in the finger of one hand but when five fingers are balled into a fist, you have a considerable instrument of defense." — President Nixon on the power of NATO. On July 21, 1949, the U.S. Senate approved the ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty.
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