Word: truman
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...career, he points to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill as two men who deserve the most respect. "Roosevelt led us out of the depression and saved the country and Winston Churchill stood alone with a tiny Island behind him," he says. "I have great admiration for President Truman, but I'll skip over him because people assume I'm biased," he adds, in a reference to his father-in-law. Daniel is almost as well known as the husband of Margaret Truman as he is for his journalistic exploits...
...same human stuff they possess and that if they can touch it, there will follow some understanding. They write letters and wait. Mostly they are disappointed. The replies are boilerplate committee jargon. Roosevelt did a little better with Stalin because they were allied in a great war. But Harry Truman, who sort of liked "old Joe" after Potsdam and tried to make him a pen pal, soon found there was not enough of a relationship to discourage Stalin from trying to consolidate his grip on Eastern Europe and starve out West Berlin...
Still, long shots have surprised before. In 1948 the Democratic candidate was widely dismissed as a sure loser. In 1984 the Democrats can only hope that the pundits are as wrong about Walter Mondale as they were about Harry Truman...
...giving R.W. Thurman a flat top the other day, while Chester Hickle, his baldness concealed by a Harry Truman-style hat, carved on a stick. R.W. was explaining that he still lives in Paragould, 153 miles away, while his wife lives in Marshall, where she was born. Three years ago, after 24 years of marriage, R.W.'s wife decided to come back to where she was from. R.W. sees her frequently, but he cannot move himself to be by her side always. "I got things back there I just can't turn loose of," he says...
...every President since Kennedy. The résumé's of all the women overlap in several places. All but Heckler grew up well-to-do in the South or West; all but Armstrong have postgraduate degrees. Dole was a Democrat in the 1960s; Armstrong campaigned for Harry Truman. Three are lawyers (O'Connor, Heckler, Dole), and three have lived on farms or ranches (O'Connor, Kassebaum, Armstrong...