Word: truman
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...only previous Presidential effort to open relations, initiated by Harry S Truman, was scuttled in the midst of an out-cry from fundamentalist Protestants. Reagan's announcement that he would exchange emissaries with Pope John Paul II was met by similar opposition from fundamentalist leaders--most notably Moral Majority spokesman Rev. Jerry Falwell--who say the recognition would violate the principle of been joined in their opposition by more consistent civil libertarians such as the American Civil Liberties Union, which has said the exchange may run contrary to the First Amendment...
...correct spelling is "Harry S Truman" and not "Harry S. Truman...
...Gerald Ford has been designated, most often as President-elect, since almost by definition anyone who enters and wins a U.S. presidential election dominates the year's news. Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and Franklin Roosevelt were all chosen in their election years; Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Harry Truman in 1948 were both Presidents and Presidents-elect, since they had succeeded to the office through their predecessors' deaths. Johnson was named twice (again in 1967), as was Richard Nixon (previously in 1971). Roosevelt achieved Man of the Year status a record three times: as President-elect...
...Austria in 1955 seemed to belie the postwar axiom that Communists never give up any territory they hold. In an equally auspicious sign of improved East-West relations, Eisenhower traveled to a Geneva summit that year for the first face-to-face meeting between Soviet and American leaders since Truman had met Stalin at Potsdam...
...name "X" in 1947, George Kennan, then head of the State Department's policy planning staff, argued that the West should "contain" the U.S.S.R. by countering Soviet pressure at crisis spots around the globe. But Kennan later denied paternity of any "containment" strategy. It was President Harry Truman who made it the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. In requesting $400 million in military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey, which were threatened by Communist expansion in 1947, he boldly affirmed the Truman Doctrine: the U.S. was prepared "to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed...