Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidency of the U.S. is enough to make anyone break out all over. Getting the ponderous machinery of the Federal Government to move is a task that would try Job, and Johnson is somewhat less patient. Harry Truman once described how it would be when Dwight Eisenhower replaced him. "He'll sit there and he'll say, 'Do this! Do that!' " said Truman. "And nothing will happen." In a memorable outburst, Franklin Roosevelt complained that it was tough enough getting action from the Treasury and State departments, but that "the Na-a-vy" beat...
...postwar Germany and Japan, he became one of the chief architects of their phenomenal booms by counseling devalued currency and balanced budgets. Then as Eisenhower's budget director through 1954, Dodge performed deft surgery on the U.S. budget, whittling almost $7 billion from the deficit left by Truman and making possible the $1.6 billion surplus...
...SACB was established by the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 (the McCarran Act) which was passed over President Truman's veto during the early McCarthy era and the Korean War. This legislation empowers the attorney-general to order "Communist-action," "communist-front," and "Communist infiltrated" organizations to register as such with his office...
...speaking up for General Education, I'm beginning to feel like Harry Truman defending the New Deal," John H. Finley, Jr., Master of Eliot House, said yesterday...
...hesitates for about 1½ seconds. "His name was General Eisenhower," says Truman blinking devilishly...