Word: truman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Along the way, Buckley amuses himself by playing fly on the wall. In the White House, President John F. Kennedy muses, "It took me two years before I figured out that Harry Truman was Harry Truman's real name. I thought he was being informal and was really Harold Truman." At the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev admonishes his journalist son-in-law, "Does Izvestiya have to be boring? I suppose so, otherwise I would send you to Gulag." But Buckley's most cutting remarks come from newspapers of the day: Columnist Walter Lippmann assures his readers, " 'The present Cuban military buildup...
...press and some of its more assertive egos. In its own defense, the press can point to the many times in recent history the truth was not demanded about governmental actions and was not told. Before the press lets down its guard too far someone always remembers Harry Truman's remark about who belongs in the kitchen's heat...
...contrast, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal and the late Truman Capote thrust their work and themselves into the world of commerce, celebrity, hostility and jealousy. "Envy, envy, envy!" cries Capote. "The people simply cannot endure success over too long a period of time. It has to be destroyed." Not since Benvenuto Cellini has there been a major talent with such a courtier's view of his art. His social timing and instinct for wounding gossip were displayed in published sections of his controversial work in progress, Answered Prayers. He refers to it as his "big ace up my sleeve," though...
Lewis: I think you have two questions there, both very important. I make a distinction...between William Westmoreland or Harry Truman or Arik Sharon on one side of the line and the ordinary person. People on that first side of the line have an easy time getting a platform to answer. General Westmoreland's reputation is a lot better today than it was before this whole matter started...I think it's very different with the private figure or even with the limited purpose public figure, someone who isn't a man or woman of general fame. I think they...
...Reagan's physician, Daniel Ruge, has been training a replacement, Los Angeles Physician Burton Smith, for more than a year. There will be other changes, some expected and some not. But they will be ripples on a tranquil surface. When a man is over a certain age, Harry Truman noted, change is not that welcome. At 73, forget it. Reagan may have produced a landslide, but he is really a glacier...