Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most job opportunities, and the most stable economic growth," he said. Listing achievements of the Eisenhower administration, Bush said that the dollar has only lost five cents in value in the last seven years, compared with a 25 cent drop under Roosevelt and a 28 cent drop under Truman...
...Scoop") Jackson hinted darkly that Republican moneybags were bankrolling the anti-Catholic campaign, and challenged the press to find out "who prepared the statement issued by Dr. Peale's group." He suggested that the issue was turning the whole campaign in Kennedy's favor. Ex-President Harry Truman charged that back home in Independence, Mo. "the Republicans are sending out all the dirty pamphlets they can find on the religious issue." Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton rebutted in the same vein: "The Democrats are deliberately keeping the religious issue alive for the purpose of exploiting it for their...
...with a rousing cheer that echoed up the canyon. At Redding the sun was warmer, and 1,500 citizens lined up under a fringe of trees along the siding while Kennedy trotted out the old nostalgia ("I follow here in 1960 the same trail Harry Truman took in 1948 when he came down this valley and carried California in the 1948 election"). At Sacramento, 5,000 massed in the station to hear Kennedy invoke the shade of a famous Republican: "Abraham Lincoln said, T know there is a God and he hates injustice. I see the storm coming...
...bought an automobile, bought a television set, has suffered from this high-interest-rate policy. Those of you who bought a home for $10,000 with a 30-year mortgage are going to pay out $3,300 more for that house than you would have paid in the Truman Administration." The promise: to lower "artificially high interest rates...
...Harry Truman: A surprising man, smarter than most people realized. Truman and I long have been friends...