Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Well, we survived Truman...
...January, 1951, just after President Truman had issued his directive to determine the technical feasibility of a thermonuclear weapon, I was appointed to the Atomic Energy Commission. I recall that Professor Rabi and some of his confreres on the General Advisory Council were profoundly wrong at that time, both in their scientific estimates about the feasibility and practicability of the new weapon. It turned out later that the Soviet Union was no more than six months behind us in nuclear technology. Their thermonuclear or H-bomb test was made, in fact, only about six months after ours...
...Republican Party was losing the 1960 election, 58% of the U.S. public, according to a Gallup poll taken in late October, approved of the way he was doing his job. Ike's popularity has averaged an astonishing 61% throughout his last year in office. By contrast, Harry Truman's popular backing in October...
Defense: Missouri's Stuart Symington, onetime Truman Air Force Secretary, who has been working up a Defense Department reorganization plan; Washington's Henry ("Scoop") Jackson; General Dynamics Chairman (and former Truman Army Secretary) Frank Pace. Pundit Joe Alsop predicted the picking of Byron ("Whizzer") White, Denver lawyer, All-America football star and national chairman of Citizens for Kennedy...
...others: John Quincy Adams, James Polk, Zachary Taylor, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln (in 1860), Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland (both terms), Benjamin Harrison, Woodrow Wilson (in 1912 and 1916) and Harry Truman...