Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gentleman Amateur. Taft supporters were exultant at Krock's hint that Ike might back their man, declared that Taft and Eisenhower were actually close on foreign policy and Ike would wind up "in Taft's corner." On the Democratic side, word got around Washington that Harry Truman was saying privately that Ike was a real gentleman and a great man-but the President hoped Ike wouldn't run because he is an amateur politician and look what happened to Amateurs Herbert Hoover and Henry Wallace...
Harry Truman got a medal and dropped a hint last week. For his "endeavors on behalf of the state of Israel," the National Committee for Labor Israel gathered in the White House rose garden to present him with the 1951 Histadrut Humanitarian Award. General Chairman Joseph Schlossberg, in reading the citation, hoped God would grant the President "many more years in the service of our country and humanity...
After the ceremony, the President was asked if he really felt fine in spite of all his troubles. Said Harry Truman: "Well, I'll let somebody else shoulder the troubles." Some political soothsayers took this sibylline pronouncement as a hint that Truman did not intend to run again...
...trouble with the army, was undoubtedly in need of all the popular election support his ailing wife could win him. She had made her dramatic appearance in defiance of doctors' orders. The official press had already announced that she would soon submit to an operation-the first hint that she was suffering from more than anemia. At week's end it was reported that one of Evita's doctors had flown to New York to fetch the specialist who would perform the operation...
...nation while the nation slept. The most important of these was James Vincent Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, and in 1947, the Secretary of Defense. Not until Forrestal jumped to his death from the 16th floor of the Bethesda Naval Hospital, in May 1949, did the world catch a hint of how exhausting the battle had been...