Word: truman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic Party weary of constant neo- identity crises. In late 1949, when Simon became eligible to vote, he wrote a column for the tiny weekly newspaper in Illinois that he published, explaining why he had become a Democrat. The year before, he had endorsed Republican Thomas Dewey over Harry Truman. His change of heart, the youthful Simon explained, came because he preferred the Democrats' commitment to "world peace" and "genuine world free trade" and faulted the Republicans for their backsliding on "civil rights" and their antilabor sentiments symbolized by the Taft-Hartley Act. The same thoughts and phrases echo...
...Adams remarked after the Civil War that anyone wishing to disprove Darwin's theory had only to trace the evolution of the American presidency from George Washington to Ulysses Grant. Americans have often cherished a sort of golden-age theory of the presidency. They look back on, say, Harry Truman and John Kennedy as historical giants. In fact, neither man looked all that imposing when he was in the White House. Truman was often vilified as an undistinguished little haberdasher, utterly unfit to succeed a demigod like Franklin Roosevelt. Those underwhelmed by the current presidential candidates might remember that much...
WARD--PRECINCT--LOCATION 11 Fire House, 173 Cambridge St. 1 2 Miller's River Apartments 15 Lambert St. Community Room, 663 Cambridge St. Entry 1 3 Truman Apartments 25 Eighth St., Community Room, Thorndike St. Entry 1 4 Harrington School, Cambridge St. 1 5 Harrington School, Willow St. 2 1 St. Mary's Lower Church, Harvard and Norfolk Sts. 2 2 Fletcher School, 89 Elm St. (East) 2 3 Maynard School, Broadway and Windsor St. 2 4 Health Center, 105 Windsor St. 2 5 Fire House, Lafayette Square (Mass. Ave. and Main St.) 3 1 Baptist Church, Hampshire and Norfolk...
...blame Reagan for not having enough news conferences, interviews and appearances to fill their needs. When the President does show up, the result is what one network official calls a "feeding frenzy," with flying elbows, shouts, roars, groans. Reagan could shut it off with a stern finger-pointing. Harry Truman would have cut the bunch down to pips and squeaks with one of his nasal tongue-lashings. It used to hurt good...
...Harry Truman's Buxus sempervirens "Suffruticosa" is up to 10 ft. Because the White House police can no longer see over this boxwood hedge at the front entrance, it will soon be trimmed down for better security. And the Fagus sylvatica "Asplenifolia" trees, so lovingly planted by Lady Bird Johnson and Pat Nixon, are gorgeously full of life, even though these fern-leaf beeches are close by the press area, where the air on most days is believed to be considerably hotter than normal...