Word: truman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which also handles Woody Allen, Robert Klein and Martin Mull, takes care of that. Robin and Valerie live simply in a studio apartment in Los Angeles and a weekend house at Zuma Beach that they share with a parrot named Cora and two iguanas (one of which is named Truman Capote because, as Robin explains, "he's cold-blooded"). Robin's sketches, however, occasionally reflect the ironies of Celluloid City. One, called the "Hollywood Mime," for instance, has a character dancing from door to door in Hollywood, banging on each and smiling hopefully until the smile literally falls...
Among his discoveries: the woman who has appeared most on the covers is the Virgin Mary (10 times). The only First Ladies not to appear were Florence Harding and Bess Truman. Henry Kissinger was on 15 covers; Jesus Christ was right behind him with 14. The youngest cover subject was the baby Jesus; the oldest, Amos Alonzo Stagg...
...Nobody can even tabulate the requests from politicians, legislators, friends and special interests. There are 1,620 accredited White House correspondents, photographers and technicians constantly battering the doors. While the First Family has almost total privacy on the second floor of the mansion, once Carter goes out on the Truman balcony, tourists train their binoculars on him from in front of the south lawn. On these heavy tourist days at the White House (1.5 million visitors a year now), the corridors are so jammed that Rosalynn Carter, to get to her East Wing office undetected, must either walk outside...
...countrymen. Winston Churchill spoke of him as "the glorious commander." To the Japanese, whom he outwitted at nearly every turn, he seemed endowed with almost superhuman powers. Yet Franklin Roosevelt privately labeled him one of the two most dangerous men in America (the other was Huey Long), and Harry Truman called him "a counterfeit...
Manchester argues that Truman was not quite the decisive leader hagiographers claim, and that he shares the blame for the Chinese invasion. But when MacArthur repeatedly defied his orders from Washington, the President had only one choice: to relieve him of command...