Word: truman
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Reagan went to great pains to stress that saving Central America was a bipartisan burden. The only two Presidents he invoked were Democrats. He read at length from Harry Truman's 1947 speech to Congress arguing that international...
Modern geopolitics and warfare changed the governmental attitude. Franklin Roosevelt understood the strategic importance of Latin America during World War II. Harry Truman endorsed those ideas. Dwight Eisenhower was humiliated by Fidel Castro's Marxist government, and Ike planned the Bay of Pigs, which John Kennedy launched and bungled. For all of that, rousing this nation to any deep and lasting interest in Lathi America was impossible. Even with rumors flying around Washington in the summer of 1962 about the Soviet buildup in Cuba, Kennedy was only half listening, although he ordered U-2 surveillance that discovered the offensive...
President Reagan, ever ready to quote Harry Truman, should recall the former President's wise words about defense spending: "All through history it's the nations that have given the most to the generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall." Andrew H. Schauer Topeka, Kans...
...Truman Foundation President Malcolm McCormick called this year's crop of winners "outstanding," and added that the Foundation was hoping this year to add a newsletter in order to set up a network among the winners...
...scholars will travel May 8 to Independence, Mo., the site of the Truman Memorial Library, to be officially honored...