Word: truman
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...many Southern states Wallace might carry. In 1948, with a lower threshold of racial tension in the South and a campaign style considerably less zestful than Wallace's, Senator Strom Thurmond captured four states and 39 electoral votes for the Dixiecrats, posing a real threat to Harry Truman. Mindful of the defections to Thurmond, Vice President Hubert Humphrey has for months been playing Johnson's John Alden to Southern Democratic Gov ernors-most recently and notably with Georgia's Lester Maddox-to preclude any repetition of 1948 or, for that matter, of 1964. So far, Lurleen...
...traveled the breadth of the peninsula with his German-born wife Frederika, rallying support for the government. They went to the battlefront in Jeeps, crossed mountains on muleback and even took meals with the peasants in the countryside. The U.S. poured in $300 million in aid under the Truman Doctrine, and General James Van Fleet went to Greece to advise the military. Thus, it was in the Greek hills that the West first blew the whistle on the spread of Communism...
...have happened." Hence the screaming horrors, outrageous sex fantasies, nightmares of loneliness now faking it as novels. Fiction is either surrendering its majesties to non-fiction or hybridizing with the new languages of symbolic communication. John Hersey's finest book, his seven novels notwithstanding, is still Hiroshima. Truman Capote freezes a murderous poetry into In Cold Blood. Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us and Lewis Mumford's The City in History inherit the grace and freedom of the novel...
...party members is supposedly out; yet that heresy has been committed twelve times-mostly by Republican Presidents, though perhaps most dramatically in 1916 when Democrat Woodrow Wilson named Louis Brandeis, the court's first Jew, who despite a decidedly Wilsonian record of liberalism was a registered Republican. Harry Truman ignored the Catholic seat, which started with Chief Justice Roger Taney in 1836; no Catholic served on the court throughout Truman's seven-year term. With equal independence, Truman was the only Democrat after Wilson to name a Republican Justice (Burton...
...protege became one of the court's alltime archconservatives. Does every man change when he dons those robes? "If he is any good, he does," said Felix Frankfurter, who was himself accused of moving from left to center during his 23 years on the highest bench. As Harry Truman lamented for all Presidents: "Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court, he ceases to be your friend. I'm sure of that...