Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Benton). he became wealthy by 40, then moved into politics, won a term (1949-51) as Governor of Connecticut. Many veterans of the clerical army of hundreds of thousands who worked for him as wartime Price Administrator are still fiercely loyal to him. Liberals fondly remember that as Harry Truman's U.S. Ambassador to India and Nepal (1951-53), he fought hard for a U.S. understanding of Nehru's neutrality?which was highly unpopular in the State Department and Congress. They fondly tend to forget that he has less support than Kennedy in his home state of Connecticut, was defeated...
...magazine contributor, letter-to-the-editor writer, interview giver. To his benefit, Bowles is an intimate of most of the top candidates. The jacket of his latest book. The Coming Political Breakthrough, is alive with blurbs from Jack Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, and even Harry Truman...
...Harry Truman, who told a Cornell University news conference that he thought the sit-ins were ''engineered by Communists." Later he said he had been misquoted, but a tape recording had him cold...
...supporters of yesteryear. He has no functioning organization. He has no support among labor chiefs, scant support among organization Democrats. In his home state of Illinois, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, state Democratic boss, opposes him because he carried the state ticket to defeat in 1956. And Harry Truman, for whatever it is worth, snorted in Manhattan last week that it would be "difficult" for Stevenson to be "offered again...
...week's end Truman added Jack Kennedy to his unfit list, said, "The Republican newspapers" want to nominate Kennedy or Stevenson, "but our party is going to nominate someone who can win." Other Truman political pronouncements: "This draft business is hooey. There never was a man drafted for President in the history of the country. A draft is created by the fellow who wants it and is willing to fight for it." On primaries: "I hope that people have had a bellyfull of these primaries. They are outrageously expensive and exhausting...