Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taylor complained that "the students ask for nothing but headliners," adding that last year former Secretary of State Dean Acheson and former President Harry S. Truman had been asked to visit Kirkland House, but had been unable...
...answer to queries on his opinions about immigration policy, Kennedy re-affirmed his opposition to the McCarran-Walter Act. He claimed that the two-thirds vote overriding President Truman's veto of the bill indicated the difficulty of obtaining revision of the McCarran...
Lawyer Edgar Eisenhower and Major General Louis W. Truman, the new commandant of Washington's Fort Lewis, met for the first time, paired off as golfing partners in Tacoma, were calling each other "Edgar" and "Louie" by the time they stepped onto the first green. When Truman was asked about his relationship with the former president, he said: "We're cousins." Ike's brother could empathize. "In that case, Louie, I suppose you've got the same kind of problem I have." Said Truman: "I think yours is worse than mine...
...vacation White House office to work out the draft note on the defense of Quemoy and Matsu. Even the company of such close bridge and golfing friends as U.S. Ambassador John Hay Whitney and Washington Lawyer-Industrialist George E. Allen, roly-poly White House jester through the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower regimes, failed to give the needed break from the world's pressing worry...
...save a competence.* I have considered that I have a great debt to my country for the opportunities it has given me. Therefore, I have made it a practice to devote all personal compensation derived from our Government to public service or charity." Twanged Fellow Pensioner Harry S. Truman, 33rd President: "No comment...