Word: truman
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...founded by President Truman in 1952, under the terms of a memo whose contents are still classified and inaccessible, even to Congress. No law has ever defined the permissible scope of activities of the NSA, yet its budget and staff are many times larger than any other American intelligence organization. Undoubtedly, the demands of national security require the surveillance of possible foreign agents. But the NSA remains unduly immune to public or Congressional oversight...
Your obituary on Bess Truman, "A Lady in the White House" [Nov. 1], implies that a "lady" is one who confines herself totally to the private spheres of family and home, one who "would not rock the boat," and one who never expresses an opinion on anything. I am certain that Mrs. Truman possessed many admirable qualities, but that you should single out these attributes as most praiseworthy and ladylike simply perpetuates insidious stereotypes of women in general...
...Truman Capote, 58, on the gossip column he will write for the revived Vanity Fair: "It's to be more like a series of obituaries. After all, it will concern what I call 'the living dead...
...INTERNATIONAL ARENA, too, Carter suffered from gullibility. Like Woodrow Wilson, who along with Harry Truman seems to have been one of Carter's presidential idols, he demanded a certain brand of morality from those he dealt with abroad. Yet his Administration got burned across the globe by nations less-scrupulous than ours Iran. Afghanistan, and Poland leap to mind as sites of American humiliation between 1977 and 1981. Even today, however, Carter indicates he has no regrets about extending his politics of faith abroad...
Stiff" and shy in crowds, she could be slyly witty in private. When her husband was contemplating the propriety of their having dinner in a Rome restaurant that was once the villa of Mussolini's mistress Carla Petacci, Mrs. Truman settled the matter: "Well, after all, she won't be there." Bess endured thousands of teas, receptions and galas. Mobbed by delegates and newsmen at the 1944 Democratic Convention that nominated Truman for Vice President, she lamented, "Are we going to have to go through this all the rest of our lives?" Eight and a half years later...