Editing John Kenneth Galbraith (section)

===Postwar===
In February 1946, Galbraith took a leave of absence from his magazine work for a senior position in the State Department as director of the Office of Economic Security Policy where he was nominally in charge of economic affairs regarding Germany, Japan, Austria, and South Korea. Distrusted by senior diplomats, he was relegated to routine work, with few opportunities to make policy.<ref>[[#Galbraith1981|Galbraith (1981)]] ch. 16.</ref> Galbraith favored [[détente]] with the Soviet Union, along with Secretary of State [[James F. Byrnes]] and General [[Lucius D. Clay]], a military governor of the US Zone in Germany from 1947 to 1949,<ref name="RES Newsletter" /> but they were out of step with the [[containment]] policy then being developed by [[George F. Kennan|George Kennan]] and favored by the majority of the US major policymakers. After a disconcerting half-year, Galbraith resigned in September 1946 and went back to his magazine writing on economics issues.<ref>[[#Galbraith1981|Galbraith (1981)]] pp. 247, 255</ref><ref>[[#Parker|Parker]], pp. 203, 216.</ref> Later, he immortalized his frustration with "the ways of [[Foggy Bottom]]" in a [[satire|satirical]] novel, ''The Triumph'' (1968).<ref>Galbraith, John Kenneth. ''The Triumph: A Novel of Modern Diplomacy''. Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.</ref> The postwar period also was memorable for Galbraith because of his work, along with [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] and [[Hubert Humphrey]], to establish a progressive policy organization [[Americans for Democratic Action]] (ADA) in support of the cause of economic and social justice in 1947. In 1952, Galbraith's friends [[Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.]] and [[George Ball (diplomat)|George Ball]] recruited him to work as a speechwriter for the Democratic candidate, [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]].{{sfn|Parker|2005|p=253-254}} The involvement of several intellectuals from the ADA in the Stevenson campaign attracted controversy as the Republican Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] accused the ADA intellectuals as being "tainted" by "well documented Red associations"; Galbraith later said one of his regrets was that McCarthy failed to condemn him as one of Stevenson's "red" advisers.{{sfn|Parker|2005|p=263}}