“My sword I give to him
  that shall succeed me….”
  — John Bunyan,
  The Pilgrim’s Progress

J.Y. Smith
Special to The Washington Post
Friday, March 18, 2005; Page A01

George F. Kennan

“George F. Kennan, a diplomat and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who formulated the basic foreign policy followed by the United States in the Cold War, died last night at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 101….”