Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free world's-best guidance to the new Secretary of State was the welling, heartfelt tribute that poured out to John Foster Dulles, 71, from around the non-Communist half of the world. Dulles had dedicated his diplomatic career-as Republican servant of the Truman Administration in drawing the Japanese peace treaty, as an architect of the United Nations, and as Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of State for more than six years-to the concept that power must be wielded resolutely so that moral values of natural law and justice may take root worldwide...
...diplomatic consistency. His first battleground: the Far East. His first decision: the scores of struggles under way along Red China's borders and from Korea to Malaya should be rated and met as one. His first move: the U.S. ordered the Seventh Fleet, then under orders by President Truman to neutralize the Formosa Strait, to desist from protecting Red China against any Nationalist China attack. At once his critics derided President Eisenhower for "unleashing Chiang," but Dulles had the argument of later events on his side. Red China shifted thousands of troops from the North China-Korea theater...
Speaking in Los Angeles, senior Democratic Politico Harry Truman ventured a prediction: "I am telling you that the man, in my opinion, who will not be nominated for President on the Democratic ticket is one who will divide the country on race, religion or foreign policy." That prediction could be taken as a poke at such leading Democratic possibilities as Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, who has strongly liberal foreign policy notions. But Truman's reverse description of The Man Who was also carefully tailored to promote the Democrat that Truman...
Bouncing into view before some 2,000 University of California at Los Angeles students, Elder Statesman Harry S. Truman, 74, sprang a surprise on his listeners: U.C.L.A. has offered him a short-term regents' lectureship and "When I get here, you may be sorry!" On another whistle stop in Los Angeles, Campaigner Truman, addressing some rapt businessmen, looked ahead to 1960, backhandedly nominated Vice President Richard Nixon as his own preferred G.O.P. White House aspirant: "I hope [the Republicans] don't bury him until after the next election. He'll be the easiest to lick...
...with house lights dark and violins softly playing-mixed butter into the long noodles with a gold fork and spoon given to him by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, attracted food connoisseurs from all sides of the news, among them Hermann Göring, Dwight Eisenhower, Grace Kelly, Harry Truman, Heinrich Himmler, Princess Soraya, King Farouk, Pierre Laval; of a heart attack; in Rome. "There's a little trattoria on the Via della Scrofa where you get the best fettuccine in the world," says Sinclair Lewis Socialite Lucille McKelvey, but the remark passes several noodle-lengths over the head...