Word: truman
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This collection, scrupulously annotated by her friend Sally Fitzgerald, includes the two novels, all 28 short stories, essays and more than 250 indiscreet and entertaining letters. In them a previously hidden critic emerges: "Mr. Truman Capote makes me plumb sick, as does Mr. Tenn. Williams . . . if ((James)) Baldwin were white nobody would stand him a minute." She has nothing but awe for William Faulkner, the only other Southern novelist to be published in the magisterial Library of America series. She belongs in his company...
...next President will inherit an accretion of earlier guiding principles named after his various predecessors. Joseph Stalin's probes provoked the Truman Doctrine: "It must be the policy of the U.S. to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." The U.S. set about, through a combination of diplomacy, economic assistance and military alliances, to create an international environment that would "contain" the Soviet empire within its own boundaries, forcing the Marxist-Leninist-Stali nist system to stew in its own poisonous juices. The author of that strategy, George Kennan, believed Soviet Communism...
...healthy dose of new thinking in American foreign policy does not require mortgaging the nation's interests to the vicissitudes of Kremlin politics. Nor does it require rescinding Reagan's or Truman's or, for that matter, Monroe's precepts. A new presidential doctrine does not mean repudiating the old ones so much as updating them to take account -- and take advantage -- of new realities. Whatever else he is, whatever he accomplishes and however long he lasts, Gorbachev already qualifies as the personification of a new reality, and a new challenge to the next U.S. President...
...first you doubt, doubt again. Harry Truman's advice that "if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog" is funny but false, insisted Bennett. "I leave this job with a lot more friends than when I came. None of them are dogs...
...only themes but also a melody. At the close of Reagan's sentimental farewell, the Superdome band struck up a spirited rendition of a familiar song: Happy Days Are Here Again. That diehard Democratic anthem, F.D.R.'s signature tune, had been handed down to such Democratic nominees as Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Walter Mondale. But since Democrats of late have had little to be cheerful about, the tune was not heard in Atlanta. Manny Harmon, the Los Angeles bandleader who has played at Republican Conventions since 1956, took note and helped make the decision to use the song...