Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman Avoids White House...
WASHINGTON, May 4--Harry S. Truman won't visit the White House he once occupied--even to meet his old friend Sir Winston Churchill...
...White House disclosed today that Truman, who has not been on friendly terms with President Eisenhower since the 1952 campaign, sent his regrets when invited to attend a stag dinner Wednesday night in honor of the former British Prime Minister. Truman confirmed the story...
...carried pictures of seven leading Democratic presidential hopefuls-Adlai Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Meyner, John Kennedy, Stuart Symington and Pat Brown-and all autographed the same copy. Carter also has signed covers from Vice President Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller. Among others in his autographed collection: Harry Truman and Thomas E. Dewey (both on the same 1948 pre-Election Day issue), John Foster Dulles, Chiang Kaishek, Toscanini, Nehru, the Duke of Windsor and the Morocco Riff leader, Abd el Krim...
Earlier, in his press conference, Butler criticized Time magazine, labeling it "the house organ of the Republican Party." "When George Allen was a friend of Truman, Time called him the cigar-smoking, gin-drinking crony of the president; now when he is one of Eisenhower's friends, he is called an outstanding diplomat and businessman...