Word: truman
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...Government was not then involved in the case, but late in 1952 Elman helped draft an amicus curiae brief for the Truman Administration. He was prompted by Frankfurter's disclosures to go against his own sense of the proper legal argument and tailor the brief to offer the wavering judges a key compromise: that the court could permit states to take a gradual approach to integration. That tactic was later adopted in a unanimous court ruling that called for integration "with all deliberate speed...
...precisely this self-serving complacency that the authors of To Win a Nuclear War attack. American presidents have, for example, considered using nuclear weapons in Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East. Moreover, Kaku and Axelrod report, Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy seriously looked at detailed plans to initiate a surprise nuclear attack on the Soviet Union...
...bands, a full choir, 2,800 flag-waving supporters, his mother, his photogenic wife Jane, his three children and many of the local and national politicians who have endorsed him, Gephardt became the first Democrat to declare his candidacy for the 1988 presidential race. Invoking the legacy of Harry Truman, the Show Me State's last occupant of the Oval Office, Gephardt said last week, "I'm not doing this because I want an office but because I want to change this country. I want this country to be great again...
...with what he viewed as General Douglas MacArthur's insubordination as commander of United Nations forces in Korea, Harry Truman told an aide, "The son of a bitch isn't going to resign on me! I want him fired!" Yet Truman did not complete the deed in person; instead he relayed his orders, signed by Army General Omar Bradley, to MacArthur in Tokyo. As it turned out, MacArthur learned indirectly from radio reports that he was out before Truman's message ever reached...
From the archives the commission exhumed the stories of Truman's defense budget, Ike's U-2 crisis, Kennedy's Operation Mongoose (the plot against Castro), Carter's treatment of the Shah and many other shadowy maneuvers from the past...