The Marshall Plan

Planet Money

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4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Sometimes the way to help yourself is to help your enemy. After WWII, the U.S. launched what might be the most successful intervention in history, rebuilding Germany and also the rest of Western Europe. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:08.0	A couple weeks ago, we visited the George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Virginia.
0:13.0	And we are here.
0:15.0	It's next to the campus of the Virginia Military Institute.
0:18.0	George Marshall is VMI's most prestigious alum.
0:22.0	Ready, Daryl?
0:23.0	I'm ready.
0:24.0	The foundation was really excited to have us.
0:26.0	And to be honest, we were pretty excited too.
0:29.0	Reserve parking for Mr. Rizalski and Mr. Woods was the first time anything's ever been reserved with my name on it.
0:36.0	The building looks like an armory.
0:38.0	You know, cement, not a lot of frills.
0:40.0	Like a place where you would wait out a nuclear winter or hide plutonium.
0:45.0	Good morning, good morning.
0:47.0	Good morning, good to you.
0:48.0	How are you all doing?
0:49.0	We were there to meet a guy named Paul Barron.
0:51.0	I grew up in Houston, Texas.
0:53.0	And then after college, I entered the Marine Corps.
0:55.0	And served for 24 years as an air controller in a helicopter pilot.
0:59.0	Has anybody told you you have a resemblance to John McCain?
1:02.0	I've heard that.
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