Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOREIGN POLICY : Under the pressure of the Sputniks and Russian rocket diplomacy, the Administration began a major effort to renew bipartisan foreign policy. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conferred for 2½ hours with foreign-policy experts of the Truman Administration, e.g., former Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr. and onetime State Department Policy Planner Paul H. Nitze. Subject of the meeting: plans for the Western heads-of-government meeting at the December NATO conference in Paris. Note of anxiety in the new planning: the U.S. will have a workable intermediate-range ballistic missile well before it has an intercontinental...
...shocking bit of intelligence decided the issue: German-born British Physicist Klaus Fuchs confessed that he had passed atomic secrets to Communist agents. Fuchs had been present at Los Alamos when Teller & Co. reviewed all that was known about thermonuclear reactions. Four days after Fuchs's confession, Harry Truman directed AEC to go ahead with the H-bomb...
...light of Eisenhower-Nixon endorsements of Forbes, Meyner's success was all the sweeter because it was a do-it-yourself kind of victory. He had firmly rejected outside aid, i.e., from Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson and Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy. Meyner billboards did not even worry about the word Democrat. In short, Bob Meyner did it on his record, his personality and a well-oiled, new-model state machine. Said he modestly: "Whatever outside political influence the New Jersey verdict may be deemed to have, I leave to others...
...facts made little difference to Harry Truman. By the time anyone caught up with them, he was off in Los Angeles assaulting the Republicans for letting the U.S. defense "go to pot for a mess of pottage called a balanced budget...
...Omaha newsmen Grandpa Harry Truman confided that he dasn't lug around a picture of little Clifton Truman Daniel, 4 months. Reason: "The boss [Bess] won't let me. She's afraid I'd bore everyone." At week's end Harry and Bess dropped in at a Southern California kiddies' mecca, Disneyland, which their grandson is too young to enjoy yet. Among the diversions enjoyed by the young-in-heart Trumans: a ride on a Mark Twain riverboat, a rocket trip to the moon...