Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Going Home" documents the sorrow over the death of Roosevelt, and Harry Truman's installation at the head of an uncertain country. Repeat...
...defiance of good sense and simple justice, Congress for 91 years has served as self-appointed city council for the District of Columbia. Washington's 800,000 residents thus have no more control over their affairs than the people of a colonial territory. Every President since Harry Truman has sought home rule for the capital; so have both parties' platforms since 1948. Though the Senate has now passed the necessary legislation five times, almost every home-rule bill has died in the House District Committee, traditionally controlled by Southerners. Since Washington is the only major U.S. city with...
Wrong Impression. The G.O.P. document traced the ever-deepening U.S. commitment in Viet Nam: Harry Truman's 1950 decision to aid the French in Indo-China; Dwight Eisenhower's 1954 pledge to support Ngo Dinh Diem's fledgling South Vietnamese government, principally with economic aid; John F. Kennedy's 1961 decision to expand the U.S. military effort as Laos crumbled and Viet Cong terror increased; and Lyndon's massive intensification of the U.S. involvement...
...only trying to combat pro-Nazi sentiment in Central and South America. Next, the U.S. chipped in to establish UNRRA, a desperate charity aimed at stopping hunger in a war-destroyed world. It filled a lot of bellies and the pockets of countless profiteers. In 1947, President Truman, still answering fire alarms, rushed arms and aid to Greece and Turkey. A year later, not thinking primarily in terms of economic programs for development but only of strategies to build strong European allies against Communism, he set in motion the Marshall Plan, which eventually cost $13 billion and is everywhere accounted...
...fads and campus rebellions. Outside columnists weigh in with portentous advice: Peter Sellers tells how to create the real self; Dr. Albert Ellis tells how to pick up a man in a ladylike fashion. The magazines run fiction of a sort that delicately explores feminine sensibilities, authors ranging from Truman Capote to Irwin Shaw...