...This chapter details how Harry S. Truman's travel to and participation in the Potsdam Conference represents a pivotal moment in American image-making and stage-setting at the dawn of the Cold War. Where most studies of the 1945 Potsdam Conference focus on behind-the-scenes negotiations between...

... the concept of the global rhetorical presidency and examines five representative moments that demonstrate how the act of going global evolved between 1945-1989: Harry S. Truman's 1945 participation in the Potsdam Conference, Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1959-60 "Good Will" tours, John F. Kennedy's 1963 visit...