Word: truman
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...foreign relations. As a Congressman, he took several stands that the Eisenhower Administration later adopted and translated into law: civil rights legislation, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, relinquishment of federal claims to control of the tidelands. As a freshman Congressman, Nixon supported Harry Truman's program of aid to Communist-menaced Greece and Turkey, and he has remained a steadfast backer of foreign...
Nineteen forty-eight was the last year the GOP could feel truly happy about. Dewey then won the support of 51 per cent of the undergraduates polled, while Truman got only one-quarter of their ballots...
Both were asked about the 27½% oil-depletion allowance, so dear to the hearts of Texas and Oklahoma oilmen. Kennedy was not opposing it and would restudy it after election; Nixon endorsed it wholeheartedly. Kennedy talked lightly about his inability to control Harry Truman's fiery public temper (see Democrats), but Nixon seized the occasion to declare fulsomely that President Eisenhower had restored dignity to the presidency ("I see mothers holding their babies up so that they can see a man who might be President of the United States"), and most newsmen were reminded of the Checkers speech...
...best high-cockalorum manner, Harry Truman sashayed through Texas, doing his bit for Jack Kennedy and the Democrats. More than 700 well-heeled Texans paid $50 a plate for a roast-beef dinner and a full serving of the old Harry in San Antonio. And Harry was steaming. "This Republican outfit doesn't know the definition of parity," he cried. "All the prices have gone down, down, down. And the damn farmers still vote the Republican ticket. They ought to have their heads examined...
...Truman's intemperate words touched off a salvo of indignation. In Waco, Texas, a group of 72 Baptist ministers passed a resolution rebuking Truman "as a Christian, a Baptist, and a guest in our midst." In Washington, G.O.P. Chairman Thruston Morton (himself no slouch at name calling) described the Truman speech as despicable, degrading, a smear, low-road tactics, a back-alley campaign and a slur on the 35.5 million Americans who voted for Nixon in 1956. In a blistering telegram Morton called on Jack Kennedy "to disown Truman's attack and to apologize to the American people...