Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonder that there is a new wave of nostalgia for Harry Truman. When he was in the White House he had a roll of 30 stamps that he had bought with his own money and that he licked and put on personal letters to the folks back in Missouri. The Trumans paid for refreshments on the presidential yacht when they used it on weekends. "If you can't keep the two separate, yourself and the presidency," Truman once said, "you're in all kinds of trouble...
Four men from Missouri, including retired Ad Executive W. Marshall Giesecke, dropped off four cartons of 34,000 responses to their national campaign for support that included ads in 69 newspapers. "The New York Times got the worst damned response of all of them," reported Giesecke with a distinct twinge of pleasure. The visitors handed Nixon a letter from a 72-year-old lady imploring the President to "stay in there and fight." Nixon beamed. "Well, what do you know about that...
...head of the accounting division in the office of administration is a CPA. The new chief of the office of administration, Robert James, a former management consultant, is computerizing employee records and the previous year's expenditures-detailed accounts of which have never been kept. Bond has asked Missouri companies to "lend" executives for up to six months to study state administration and make recommendations; so far 41 executives have volunteered...
...Many Missouri politicians are responding cautiously to the Governor...
Republicans, hungry from the lean years, criticize his appointments of Democrats to some key agencies. Democrats complain that he has isolated himself from the legislature. The Governor, however, remains unperturbed, banking on his ability to satisfy both parties in the tradition of Missouri Compromise...