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...wonder whether we should admire or pity a man who could "lead his nation through five troublesome years and come out of it all a supreme and unabashed optimist . . . boundlessly sure of himself" [TIME, April 24] ? My personal opinion is that, with the passing years, any President should become more humble than cocky...
...Chairman Omar Bradley of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told a congressional committee last week that things had got worse in recent months. In fact, the President made it clear that he was not alarmed at all. Of course, Harry Truman admitted, it could be that he was an optimist. But he had to be an optimist, he added, to be President...
...this Harry Truman, avowed optimist, added a conditional postscript as he chatted in the officers' mess at Fort Benning, Ga. The world could escape "that third one," said he, so long as an armed U.S. pointed the way. "I believe in preparedness to prevent hostilities in the world at large," he declared. "It took us two wars and 30 years to find out that our place in the world was one of leadership. Now we want to maintain that leadership for peace and the welfare of the world . . . and I am just as sure as I stand here that...
...course, they were right. But there was a lot to be said for a man who could walk away from a collision with the moon, the stars and all the planets, lead his nation through five troublesome years and come out of it all a supreme and unabashed optimist...
...Manager "Marse Joe" McCarthy, who could teach taciturnity to a quahog, agrees it will be a tough race. Ted Williams, never a bawling optimist, figures the Sox have a 50-50 chance ("at the outside"). Says Ted: "I'd sure like for us to get it. It would be one of the greatest thrills of my life...