A more detailed account of what actually happened in the months leading to August 1953, and pointing to the long history of American pressure on the shah to democratize - pressures that had begun in Roosevelt’s time, continued during much of the Truman administration, started again by the Eisenhower administration in 1957, redoubled by the Kennedy and Carter administrations - can free U.S. policy makers now and future from the lingering legacy of the Cold War.
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