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We remember the Marshall Plan today not because Secretary of State George Marshall gave a great speech (he didn't) or because President Truman maneuvered the bill creating the staff and bureaucracy of the European Recovery Administration through Congress.
A deeper affinity seems to have drawn Morton to them, ghostwriting fees aside: Here were two massively unself-aware individuals who had maneuvered themselves into positions of national awkwardness, women who were all but impossible to defend.
When Beethoven was sent a Broadwood grand as a gift from its British manufacturer in 1818 (he maneuvered to avoid paying import duties, incidentally), he was delighted--with both the gift and the instrument.
Buchanan might reply with what he says in his book: that FDR "maneuvered us into one collision after another with Germany and Japan so that war would be 'thrust upon us' "--in other words, that the United States effectively made the choice to wage war first.
Prudie also, however, believes that one should not be maneuvered into invitations--particularly to one's wedding.