Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this century we have had three Democratic Presidents, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, and each one of them has taken us into war. Three out of three is a mighty good batting average for a baseball player, but it is a mighty sorrowful average for Democratic Presidents. With such a record and with conditions in the world as they are, can we risk electing another Democrat? Foresight is better than hindsight...
...right shoe. When the time came to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, he graciously saluted the vanquished one by one-Running Mate Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, Hubert Humphrey, also scrappy Paul Butler, retiring chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and the absent Harry Truman. Then Jack Kennedy plunged into his speech, proved with considerable eloquence that he had three things uppermost in his mind: his religion, his opponent, and a call for American greatness through sacrifice...
...platforms go-probably the most coherent blueprint for Utopia ever to come out of a convention. As such, it reflected not only the promises of the candidate but the leanings of its principal architect: Platform Committee Chairman Chester Bowles, 59, Congressman from Connecticut, prospeous ex-adman (Benton & Bowles), Harry Truman's best-known Ambassador to In dia, Kennedy's chief foreign policy ad viser, and an anchor man of Democratic liberals...
Adlai Stevenson wrote off his abortive try for the nomination with a one-sentence example of his good humor: "A funny thing happened to us on the way to the nomination tonight . . ." Harry Truman, who had lambasted Stevenson over the years as chronically unable to make up his mind, got it back when Stevenson was asked about Truman's on-again, off-again attitude toward attending the convention: "The trouble with Harry is that he's indecisive." Added Actor-Director Jim Backus: "It is a disgrace that Harry Truman is not coming. It's the same...
...Citizen, Truman...