Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maintaining that he does not favor any candidate, Truman went on to make what sounded like a nominating speech for Harriman. He called his old friend "a capitalist who has long been engaged in the war on poverty throughout the world," a man of vision who was not duped by the Communists. Said Truman: "I don't think there is any man in the U.S. I think more highly...
...speech was only the latest indication that Truman favors Harriman. For weeks Frank McKinney, the Indianapolis banker once described by Truman as "the best national chairman the Democratic Party ever had," has been working for Harriman. Other former Truman associates, e.g., Wisconsin's Democratic Chairman Philleo Nash (a White House aide in 1945-52) and Farmers Union Counsel Charles Brannan (Secretary of Agriculture 1948-52), are privately for Harriman...
Harriman-Symington? Recently Frank McKinney, in a private survey for Truman, found that no candidate is strong enough to be nominated on the first ballot. McKinney also reported that he found Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington with enough second-choice support to be the nominee if the convention deadlocks. At first, this did not seem to fit very well with Truman's own announcement that he had decided not to be a member of the Missouri delegation (which will be pledged to Symington) because he wanted to remain a free agent. With the speculation season in swing, however...
Meanwhile, Truman sailed eastward for a seven-week visit to Europe (during which he will write a series of columns for Hearst's King Features Syndicate). Honest Ave Harriman got ready to swing west on a dozen-stop speechmaking tour through seven states. Warming up before he took off, Harriman stepped before the convention of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union in Atlantic City and created his own slogan to succeed "New Deal" and "Fair Deal." What the U.S. needs to move forward from the Roosevelt-Truman era, he said, is a program based on "New Vision...
...kept the world from unlimited war, but by reason of its own massive power-and a political decision by President Truman-it could answer Korea's limited challenge only in the old way (by conventional bombs). Nor did the Navy have all the answers, even though peninsular warfare is traditionally the Navy's meat. Item: at this critical moment, the Navy had no aircraft to meet the Russian MIG, had to make the humiliating decision to stay out of MIG Alley. (While the Air Force F-86s knocked MIGs out at a rate of 13 to 1.) Obviously...