Word: truman
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Nixon is also helped by the fact that no sizable states'-rights third-party move has developed so far in the South. In past campaigns, Southerners mad at their party voted the third ticket, e.g., in 1948 when the Dixiecrats took 39 Southern electoral votes from Harry Truman (see map). This time, protest votes will likely go Republican...
Private Show. Underneath her New England reserve, Maggie Smith has a scintillating wit. Some ten years ago, when a radio commentator asked what she would do if she woke up in the White House, she twanged right back: "I'd go straight to Mrs. Truman and apologize. Then I'd go home." She also nurses old grudges (e.g., the Smith vendetta against the promotion of Actor James Stewart to be an Air Force brigadier general), sometimes writes tart notes to erring constituents. She shuns the Washington social whirl, lives quietly in a three-apartment building in suburban Silver...
...raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are justified by ex-President Harry Truman on the ground that "it was my responsibility to force the Japanese warlords to come to terms as quickly as possible with the minimum loss of lives." Most U.S. military men, bent on unconditional surrender, backed him up. Last week the old question got a new airing in the wake of a report by Cowles newspaper Correspondents Fletcher Knebel and Charles Bailey, who were permitted to read still-secret State Department records of the Potsdam Conference while preparing a book about the Abomb. Their key points...
...Truman was well aware of Japanese peace overtures, and 3) he rebuffed them...
Advice for Stalin. By early July 1945, having broken the Japanese "purple"' code, the U.S. knew of Japanese peace feelers to Switzerland, Sweden and Russia. At mid-month, when the Allied Big Three assembled in Berlin's satellite city of Potsdam, Stalin solicited Truman's advice about how to answer a peace-seeking note from Tokyo. Their conversation was recorded by U.S. Translator Charles Bohlen (now Special Assistant to Secretary of State Christian Herter), who took down sketchy notes, expanded upon them just last spring. "Stalin inquired of the President whether it was worthwhile to answer this...