Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before a cheering A.F.L.-C.I.O. audience, Harry S. Truman expounded the novel theory that a weak President generally follows a great one. "As one of the great ones," clucked Harry, "I can make that statement," obviously hoping that everyone would forget that he was F.D.R.'s successor...
...cause were handed out to an array of conservative celebrities, ranging from Editor William F. Buckley Jr. (National Review) to Wisconsin Industrialist Herbert Kohler (of Kohler). When a speaker mentioned Herbert Hoover's name, the audience roared; Ike's name got polite applause mixed with boos; Harry Truman, silence. But the lion of the evening-as he invariably is whenever conservatives gather-was Arizona's handsome, articulate junior Senator, Barry Goldwater...
...miles down the Charles River to M.I.T. to help edit the letters of Theodore Roosevelt under Historian Elting E. Morison, won his reporter's ribbon in 1950 as a State Department legman for pugnacious. New-Dealing, syndicated Columnist Robert S. Allen, with whom he co-authored The Truman Merry-Go-Round. A year later, he moved to the Post's Washington bureau as a reporter...
After 15 years of Truman and Eisen hower, it is a pleasure to have a sophisticated, literate mind in the White House...
...pinch of tight money, Heller believes, the Kennedy Administration will be able to do a lot better at balancing the budget than the Eisenhower Administration did. The proper course, Heller holds, lies between the too-high interest rates of the Eisenhower years and the toolow rates of the Truman years...