page_title: September 1946
section_title: September 12, 1946 (Thursday)
hierarchical_section_title: September 1946 / September 12, 1946 (Thursday)
caption_attribution_description: Clark Clifford, former United States Secretary of Defense.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in September 1946:
context_section_description: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace delivered a speech at a rally at Madison Square Garden, contradicting the statement of foreign policy that had been made six days earlier by Secretary of State Byrnes, embarrassing President Harry S. Truman, and bringing an end to Wallace's career in government.  Truman, who had glanced at the speech two days earlier, was asked at a press conference about the speech and whether it "represented the policy of his administration", and replied that it was.  That evening, Wallace declared that "We have no more business in the political affairs of Eastern Europe than Russia has in the political affairs of Latin America, Western Europe and the United States... and just two days ago, when President Truman read these words, he said they represented the policy of his Administration.".  Truman compounded the error by making the excuse that "It was my intention to express the thought that I approved the right of the Secretary of Commerce to deliver that speech. I did not intend to indicate that I approved the speech" which TIME magazine described as a "clumsy lie".
  Born:
  Neil Lyndon, British journalist and writer, known for his book No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism
caption: Clifford
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