Word: truman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Theater and Avery Fisher Hall. Hostess Graham reportedly busied herself with the tiniest of details, right down to the seating arrangements. For First Lady Nancy Reagan's dinner companions, she chose Henry Kissinger and Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams. Flanking former President Jimmy Carter were Graham herself and Margaret Truman Daniel. Rosalynn Carter dined with former Democratic Party Boss Robert Strauss and Richard Simmons, Washington Post Co. president. Some 2,400 other place cards included notables from television (Tom Brokaw, Walter Cronkite), business (Laurance Rockefeller, Lee Iacocca) and show business (Steven Spielberg, Diana Ross). Two hours of after-dinner ceremonies...
...very first State of the Union messages to be televised was given by Harry Truman, who was still trying to inform the nation rather than dazzle it. He read in his reedy voice from a thick notebook, stumbling over words, losing his place. As drama it was grade-B Hollywood. As Government, it was a smash...
...Washington, Donovan's reputation for disregarding budgets, organization tables and other bureaucratic niceties won him no friends. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and General George Strong, head of military intelligence, labored to eliminate the oss as a threat to their own intelligence functions. After the war, President Harry Truman pointedly chose not to name Donovan head of the OSS's successor, the Central Intelligence Agency...
...Truman has become a kind of democratic legend of the "common man" rising to lofty challenge. He came to the White House from out of the seamy politics of Kansas City and two terms as a "machine" Senator...
...American dream. Harvard, Yale Law and Michigan are there, and the senior service academies. But a fellow from Southwest Texas State Teachers can grow up to be President (and boast of the Ivy Leaguers working for him). So can a young man from Whittier, or from, perfect name, Eureka. Truman held no degree but had studied law at night school in Kansas City...