Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bible in the place. Pausing only to put in the mansion's first bathtub, the new First Lady installed its first library. But in succeeding years, people kept pinching White House books. Herbert Hoover found the shelves bare. Booksellers chipped in to make up the loss, but Harry Truman scoffed that his own collection upstairs outnumbered the official one downstairs. The Kennedys, soon after arrival, resolved to put in "a working library for the present President and all the Presidents to come...
...rate collection, from George Washington's diaries to Theodore White's The Making of the President. The stress is on Big Think: John K. Galbraith, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr, Henry De Wolf Smyth, David Riesman. Also big are presidential memoirs, including those of Truman, Hoover and Eisenhower. President Kennedy makes it with Profiles in Courage and, granted equal time, so does Richard Nixon with Six Crises...
...Shaking hands and pleading for help ("I am Estes Kefauver; I'm running for President of the United States and I hope you'll help me"), he plodded tirelessly through the New Hampshire primary campaign in March 1952, astonished everyone by getting more votes than President Harry Truman. The Keef kept on, sewed up 14 of 17 primaries, went into the Democratic Convention in Chicago with 275 delegates-well ahead of Adlai Stevenson who said he didn't want the nomination anyway...
...Presbyterian missionary's son and a onetime dean of Harvard Law School, Landis was a Federal Trade Commissioner in New Deal days. Under Harry Truman he served as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Late in 1960, President-elect Kennedy appointed him to investigate all of the Federal Government's regulatory agencies. In his report to Kennedy, Landis charged that the agencies "drifted, vacillated and stalled," and were "subservient" to the business interests they were supposed to regulate. Landis recommended the creation of a lofty new office to oversee all of the regulatory agencies, and businessmen shuddered...
Landis, a member of the New Deal-Fair Deal wing of the Democratic party, occupied important appointive positions under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. He was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, and chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. In 1960, he was an adviser to the then President-elect Kennedy on possible charges in Federal regulatory agencies...