Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ohio's pudgy, popular Mike Di Salle, ex-Mayor of Toledo and sometime price-control boss of the Truman Administration, was not popular enough, lost out to Republican C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, 48, a thoroughly experienced little ( 5 ft. 5 in.) Army veteran who served six consecutive terms in the state legislature, three terms as attorney general, if In Democratic-inclined (but pro-Ike) Minnesota, Governor Orville Freeman, 38, an ex-marine with a reputation for being a homey family man (toasted marshmallows in the fireplace) and the administrator of a trouble-free office, knocked...
...ideological inheritance. No less apparent is the evolution of the type of cabinet member and personal adviser that Stevenson would bring with him to the White House. The candidate stands in the middle of two generations of party leaders. On the one hand are the hold-overs from the Truman Administration, older men mostly in their sixties who served in key posts up to 1952. On the other hand there is the candidate's planning staff, made up of young lawyers, governors, and senators in their forties who are latecomers to Democratic politics...
...subversion issue in his campaigns. His intensity in the use of that issue inspired many of the bitter attacks that have been made on him. Stumping the country in 1952 and 1954, he intensified the bitterness by hitting hard, by trading blow for blow with Harry Truman. (Among his most consistent, most effective antagonists: the Washington Post and Times Herald Pulitzer Prize Cartoonist Herbert Block-Herblock.") There has been little criticism of the job he has done as the most active and influential Vice President in U.S. history. Says an aide: "His whole life is now dedicated to being Vice...
Always up to date was a chart that showed the whereabouts and activities of other key campaigners-President Eisenhower, Adlai Stevenson and former President Truman (Nixon largely ignored the travels, of Estes Kefauver). From the chart, Nixon could be sure that he was not upstaging Ike in the next day's headlines, and also could know when and what he should be saying in countering Stevenson and Truman. Every day he received from Washington a report prepared by ten staff members of the White House and the Republican National Committee, summarizing the national political situation. Excerpt: "In his statement...
Ever since Franklin Roosevelt was President, the inside dope of Washington Columnist Drew Pearson has often been flatly contradicted by the White House-and by the facts. Once President Truman publicly called him an "s.o.b."* Last week Columnist Pearson, who has less respect for facts than Walter Winchell, set a record even for him; he provoked a bristling White House denial a day before his column saw print. Burden of the column: "It will be vigorously denied," but President Eisenhower "apparently suffered a mild relapse" on his way to the Minneapolis airport during his mid-October Western campaign trip...