Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proud as a country squire showing off the new manorhouse, former President Harry S. Truman guided an impressive flock of old friends and old antagonists through the U.S.'s newest national monument, the $21 million Harry S. Truman Library at Independence, Mo. On hand for the library's dedication: ex-President Herbert Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, and durable old Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, who passed the time of day with his old colleague, thrust out his snapping-turtle neck to plant a buss...
When Fox noted that some people regard "politicians" as "a pretty dirty word," Truman responded, "A politician is a man who understands government, and it's the most honorable profession in the world." Inevitably the group came to another piano, a replica of the one in the White House. Truman tinkled out the Paderewski minuet and, for an encore, bravely riddled a Mozart theme with clinkers. Then, after a closing speech ("Learn all you can about the Government so you can continue this great republic of ours"), the Missouri Waltz welled up and Truman scurried downstairs to the basement...
...Truman meant the late George C. Patton, whose dashing, self-designed uniforms made gen erous use of four-star clusters...
...named because a young lady named Margaret Truman (no kin to Mrs. Cliftpn Daniel), who knitted the uniform socks, decided that the boys would look nice in red. -The nickname lasted until the era of Joe McCarthy-the late Senator, not the great New York Yankee manager. Then, patrioteering owners with an ear for public opinion and rustlings among the Reds ruled that their ball club should be called the Redlegs...
...fell on evil ways after its reconversion tasks were completed. Private lenders complained bitterly to Congress that RFC was making many questionable business loans as political favors. Snake farms, luxury hotels and fancy gambling halls applied to-RFC for loans, and got them. In the latter days of the Truman Administration, congressional investigators unraveled before the nation's scandalized eyes a network of influence-peddling that led in and out of the White House offices, the RFC and the halls of Congress. Finally, in 1953, Congress ordered RFC to make no further loans and to wind up those...