Elizabeth Edwards Spalding

Elizabeth Edwards Spalding, PhD, is Senior Fellow at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, and author of The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism.

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The Iron Lady Confronts Socialism

Thatcher embraced the “Iron Lady” label because she recognized the necessity of moral clarity over equivocation in confronting the evils of communism and socialism

An Old War and a New President

The end of WWII closed one chapter of conflict against tyranny and opened another which we are still fighting

Reagan Still Speaks the Truth About Evil

Ronald Reagan’s “Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida” of March 8, 1983, were plain speaking and straight truth about the Soviet Union.

Harry, Eleanor, and the Dawn of Universal Human Rights
Harry, Eleanor, and the Dawn of Universal Human Rights

In 1946 when the prospects for what would become the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) appeared dim, President Harry Truman appointed Eleanor Roosevelt to a UN committee where she could promote universal human rights.