Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Allied countries, participated from the beginning in the development of the atom bomb. But he also made many important enemies within the Democratic Party, especially among Southerners and big-city bosses. They prevailed on Roosevelt in 1944 to let the convention drop Wallace in favor of Harry Truman. Wallace became Secretary of Commerce in 1945, and soon proved how right, or how lucky, the Democratic chieftains had been...
Pravda's Favorite. Wallace, who had little rapport with Truman, clung to his practice of speaking out on foreign affairs. As the shadow of Soviet imperialism lengthened over Europe, he advocated a conciliatory line toward the nation's wartime ally. On Sept. 12, 1946, he made a celebrated speech condemning the Administration's hardening attitude toward the Soviets at the very moment that the U.S. was sparring with Stalin over Europe's post-war boundaries. Infuriated by Wallace's intrusion, which suggested that the U.S. was disunited on the Cold War issues he was negotiating...
...appeal. They had a willing figurehead. As Wallace stormed across the land, condemning the Marshall Plan, aid to Greece and Turkey, and U.S. resistance to Soviet pressure on Berlin, he became Pravda's favorite American. Wallace won only 1,157,000 votes out of 49 million, trailed Harry Truman, Thomas Dewey and Strom Thurmond. He carried not a single state...
...Lady grabs any day where she can steal 12 hours to check on library architecture." The Harvard tour was only one in a series of trips beginning two months ago, be said that have taken the First Lady to New York City, Yale, and Princeton, as well as the Truman and Eisenhower libraries...
...less than his flippant condescension to subordinates. "It is not gratifying," reports Acheson, "to receive the easy greeting which milord might give a promising stable boy and pull one's forelock in return." Pleading a desire for objectivity, he ends the memoir before his controversial years as President Truman's Secretary of State. From his earlier recollections he omits everything he considers "too unpleasant" or "too personal" to set down. In other words, all the interesting parts...