Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman, once privately critical of Lyndon Johnson, has responded to years of Johnson flattery ("No man will rank higher in history than Harry Truman"). Symingtoru is not one of Rayburn's House graduates, but he has made up for that by sedulously seeking Mr. Sam's political advice...
...Harry Truman vowed not to repeat his 1956 tactical error, when he waited until the nominating convention itself to go all out for New York's Averell Harriman, was too late to get more than two dozen votes (out of 1,372) off the Stevenson bandwagon. For his part, Rayburn was prepared to work in the open long before convention time. But his critical role will come if, as expected, he mounts the podium at Los Angeles in July 1960 to become, for the fourth time running, permanent convention chairman. Master of floor strategy and impervious to shouts...
...terms of raw, do-it-or-else power, the impact of the Texas-Missouri compact may be close to zero. But in a skintight convention, the Truman-Rayburn party prestige and know-how just might make the difference...
Born. To Margaret Truman Daniel, 35, daughter of ex-President Harry Truman, and Elbert Clifton Daniel Jr., 46, assistant to the managing editor of the New York Times', their second son; in Manhattan. Name: William Wallace...
...pleas have characterized the plaints of Washington reporters and the criticisms of them: freedom from partisan editors and publishers and freedom of information. Drew Pearson, writing anonymously back in the Thirties, called for a purge of "business and money-drawer domination" of the American press. Harry Truman used to tell White House reporters that he realized they couldn't help the slant which their editors made them put into their copy. Adlai Stevenson favored the term, "one-party press." And, to meet the other complaint, the press now has a Congressional subcommittee to hear its demands for greater liberalization...