Word: truman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party, the tuxedoed Ford in another part of town found a few things to quarrel over in the Carter record. Yet when Jerry flew off to Vail for the holidays, he complimented Carter on his graciousness and explained that political differences did not intrude in their "friendly relationship." Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower did not speak for more than eight years; Richard Nixon and John Kennedy spoke only when they...
...businessman, Army colonel, sportsman, art patron, raconteur and wine connoisseur. After running the European operations of the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) during World War II, Bruce helped rebuild the Continent as an administrator of the Marshall Plan and later as Ambassador to France under Harry Truman. A strong advocate of a united Europe, he scored a kind of diplomatic grand slam by heading embassies in Bonn (under Dwight Eisenhower) and London (under John Kennedy) as well as Paris. His last assignment, fittingly, was as Ambassador to NATO, and ended only last year. Though Bruce...
...full-page shot of a pensive John Lennon gazing into Leibovitz's lens to a melancholy Keith Richard swathed in a makeshift black headdress, Leibovitz's collection captures virtually every major rock star of the last ten years in some special pose, along with non-rock celebrities ranging from Truman Capote to Jimmy Carter...
Having been one of his earliest supporters and one of the few major optimists in the 1948 campaign, Edwards held Harry Truman's ear in the White House. Never one to mince words, she asked him outright to name unprecedented numbers of women to positions in his administration. At her urging, in fact, Truman was on the verge of appointing an Ohio woman judge to the Supreme Court before Chief Justice Fred Vinson nixed the idea because he felt "the boys" wouldn't be able to relax with one another when discussing cases...
...several years. Stories of working side by side with Ring Lardner and Charlie McCarthur are as interesting as the tales of life as a New Deal Democrat in Chicago society (one socialite slapped her for opposing Alf Landon). The experiences of later years take on more significance: discussing with Truman the idea of dismissing General McArthur, urging a reluctant Adlai Stevenson to seek the nomination...