Word: truman
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Breeding's defeat in a huge new Kansas district could be laid mainly to the fact that he championed Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's farm policies. He was also hurt by a campaign visit from Harry Truman, who declared to one audience that "farmers are the most ungrateful people in the world." Republican Bob Dole damned the Freeman program, won 21 rural counties in Breeding's old district...
...bitterly about the Democrats and Cuba: "First they wanted Joe Kennedy to go down there and buy it. If that didn't work, they planned to send Billie Sol Estes down there to steal it. And if that didn't work, they'd have sent Harry Truman down there to tell 'em where...
Died. Hugh Fulton, 54, dogged chief counsel for Harry S. Truman's World War II watchdog committee on graft in defense contracts, a close Truman friend and speechwriter in the 1944 vice-presidential campaign, after which he returned to private practice; of a stroke; in Manhattan...
Setting the Course. "I never cared too much for old Harry Truman," growled a California farmer. "But he damn sure wouldn't have let Khrushchev move into Cuba." "We had a chance to correct the Cuba situation," said Thomas O'Grady, an Illinois railroad switchman. "But we lost it. I'm not blaming Kennedy, but hell, we've got to do something before things get out of hand down there." Following the example of Senior Republican Dwight Eisenhower, G.O.P. candidates have taken to the attack, charging the Administration with irresolution in its foreign policy and weakness...
Wyatt is a high-strung, garrulous fellow who graduated with top honors from Louisville's Jefferson School of Law, at 35 became the youngest mayor in Louisville history, worked as Harry Truman's Federal Housing Administrator, helped found the red-hot liberal Americans for Democratic Action, and served as Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign manager in 1952. He is now Kentucky's lieutenant governor...