Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DICK CAVETT SHOW (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A new prime-time talk and variety series that will broadcast on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays. Truman Capote, Liza Minelli, James Coburn and Candice Bergen will drop by to help Dick with the premiere...
HARDLY any Administration is free of scandal. Harry Truman had T. Lamar Caudle and assorted "five-percenters." Dwight Eisenhower had Sherman Adams and his vicuna coat. Lyndon Johnson had Bobby Baker-and Abe Fortas. To a cynical public, the recurrent surfacing of peculators and huggermuggers suggests that almost everyone in Washington is on the take. The truth is more reassuring, though bad enough. The capital does tolerate unsavory practices that could and should be stopped...
...consider it necessary to admit that it was any such thing. Powerful individual lobbyists like Lawyers Clark Clifford, Thomas G. Corcoran and Abe Fortas in his precourt days earn their high fees by dealing directly with important friends. A phone call is often all that is needed. During the Truman era, James V. Hunt was able to do wonders for aspiring Government contractors by calling his friend General Harry Vaughan, Truman's military aide. Though no evidence of a direct payoff was uncovered, Vaughan did receive a freezer from one of Hunt's clients, and the Democratic Party...
...just such a manner. The chances are that they would be wrong in this case. The idea for the party was suggested by Nixon's old New York associate Charles McWhorter, a jazz buff, and Nixon, no jazz fan but the first piano-playing President since Harry Truman, enthusiastically endorsed it. Ellington did not participate in anyone's campaign and, in fact, had not even met Nixon until the day of the party. The traditional political types were not invited, and the guest list was limited almost entirely to the Duke's old friends. Most of them...
...60th birthday, he announced on a national television program that he rejected De Gaulle's propositions. After that, Poher crisscrossed France by auto, train and plane to argue against them in person. His home-folks approach on the hustings led newsmen to call him a French Harry Truman; it also helped to galvanize middle-class discontent into a decisive "no" vote. "Because one man resigns," Poher insisted in town after town, "France will not be consumed by chaos." He has been suggested as a centrist candidate for President because of his performance. He maintains that "I am not ambitious...