Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parallel paths of Nixon and Rogers continued as both made names for themselves as investigators in the big scandals of the Truman Administration...
Established in 1947 by the legislation that also created the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency, the NSC-was designed to integrate military, diplomatic and economic policies. Harry Truman did little to develop the NSC, but under Eisenhower it became an important force and acquired two subordinate branches, a planning board and an operations-coordinating board. Critics of the system charged that the NSC structure amounted to an obstructive bureaucracy. The Kennedy Administration did away with the subsidiary boards and operated on a more informal basis, with McGeorge Bundy running the White House's "little State Department." Lyndon...
Potsdam Conference ground to a halt while whole phalanxes of foreign officers fretted over who should enter first. They finally found a room with three doors so that Churchill, Stalin and Truman could come in simulta neously. Another near impasse was averted at the conference's end when Stalin insisted that he be the first to sign, since the British Prime Minister and the U.S. President had each been first in two previous conferences. Harry Truman refused to make a fuss about it. "You can sign any time you want to," he snorted. "I don't care...
...Small Giant. Now McCracken will head a 45-man staff. Though the council is a pygmy among Washington agencies in terms of size, it can be a giant in influence. Started in 1946 by President Truman, the council rose to real power when John F. Kennedy appointed Walter Heller to be chairman in 1960. Heller was the leading advocate of the Keynesian "New Economics"-the policy of flexibly adjusting taxes, Government spending, and the money supply to influence the economy -and he sold Kennedy on the idea of cutting taxes to stimulate business and employment. His successors, Gardner Ackley...
During the Truman and early Eisenhower years, his countrymen had been preoccupied with communists, whom they battled abroad and burned at home. The question of race was a quiet one. But beginning in December, 1955, with the Montgomery bus boycott, black frustrations burgeoned; certainly the Sixties would see an explosive showdown...