ABSTRACT
By the 1980s George F. Kennan was at last seeing his ideas, going back to the Long Telegram, being realized. With his sense of the deeper economic realities, Kennan was nevertheless constrained by the old ideological and governmental structures. Newly rising leaders were emphasizing technology more than ideology and responding to Kennan's message of humane receptivity. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Kennan's individual actions were strengthened by the organizational support of the American Committee for East-West Accord. On March 2 1983, Kennan had a cordial lunch with the ambassador, in which Kennan communicated his sympathy with his American mission. Probably Kennan disbelieved this hopeful sign out of stubbornness and his long-held pessimism. The world, as the public intellectual Kennan had known it, had been rejoined. Whether Kennan liked it or not, he had arrived at the consummation of his Cold War policy.
