Word: off-the-cuff
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...Girl." Next day, the President found himself talking off-the-cuff again. Visited by members of Ohio's Farm Bureau Federation, ex-Farmer Truman explained that two of his nephews, Gilbert and Harry (sons of brother Vivian), were working the 600-acre Missouri farm that the President had once tilled. "My boy's a girl," said the President. "Of course, I wouldn't trade her for any two boys, but I wish I had some. These boys are good farmers and they have that sort of reputation. The only handicap they have is that their uncle...
...York Times and the New York Daily News - both Dulles supporters - concede to Lehman and O'Dwyer." Said beaming Harry Truman: "It certainly is a most happy evening." The Old Man, Too. While the ladies whooped it up, the President launched into a few appropriate, off-the-cuff remarks. "Every woman in the great state of New York has done her best," he said with a bow to the assembled members of the Women's National Democratic Club. "That means she's gone to the polls and had the old man go too ... I will tell...
...sight to brighten a soldier's eye and the President expressed his pleasure and satisfaction in a gracious little off-the-cuff speech during lunch at the officers' club. He also confessed that as a politician he had been completely fascinated by one of the Army's less lethal developments-a pocket loudspeaker which would project the human voice for a full two miles...
...Pipe Dream." When the President rose to make his off-the-cuff speech he had a crowd which could hardly wait to cheer. He stoutly defended the 81st Congress and the Fair Deal. "My political philosophy," he said, "is based on the Sermon on the Mount." He went on to lay down a proposition that would be heard again & again in the off-year election campaign; he hoped, he said, that the U.S. could eventually raise its income from $200 billion to $300 billion a year-enough to bring the national average to $4,000 a family. "That...
...Truman began his off-the-cuff speech with some nostalgic comments on the military life of General Vaughan, artillery man in World War I, lieutenant colonel in World War II until he was hospitalized home after an airplane accident. Then the President of the U.S. stuck his jaw out. In a firm, measured voice he said...