Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book, laughing in a gratifying manner. Mr. Huston paid me to write a screenplay. With a lot of help from Mr. Huston, I did so. This concluded my participation in the affair. Huston later decided it should be more of a comedy after all, and a man (Mr. Truman Capote) was hired to make it so. Altogether it made a lovely little film, and the end of it-whoever wrote it, wherever lolling-was a big improvement on the end of the novel...
Debate calendar: Saturday. The Democratic Advisory Council-including Harry Truman, Dean Acheson, Adlai Stevenson-put out a razor-sharp statement that the U.S. ought to turn over the Quemoy-Matsu crisis to the U.N., ought to have a plebiscite in Formosa (no mention of the same thing for Red China), also slashed at "world-ambulating" Secretary of State Dulles for dragging the U.S. to "the brink of having to fight a nuclear war." The Advisory Council's added point (later opposed by Harry Truman): although there may be dangerous times when an opposition ought to keep quiet, the Quemoy...
...last week when Party Faithful Tallulah Bankhead, wrapping her "dahlings" in her bourbon drawl, breathed spite upon the opposition. "Dirt is too clean a word for him," she said of Vice President Richard Nixon. Fumbling for an exit bit, Tallu focused upon the seated form of Harry S. Truman, listed sharply in a maneuver designed to land in his lap but, defeated by his red-faced agility,* succeeded only in a bear hug. Bawled she: "The warmth that comes out of that man just kills...
What remains the most unnerving aspect of the whole episode, however, are the assumptions on which all parties to the controversy finally agreed. Harry Truman, for all his hell-raising, also declared himself opposed to "partisan attacks in the field of international relations." And Adlai Stevenson hymned the virtues of bipartisanship. It was felt, on all sides, that beyond certain limits criticism can become "radical," "partisan," and "un-American...
Questioned about the current civil rights controversy in the Democratic Party, Truman declared, "I don't favor purging anybody...