Word: truman
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Four undergraduates last week were awarded fellowships by the Harry S. Truman Foundation, and seven professors received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation...
...33rd President of the U.S. seems, at first blush, an unlikely practitioner of this secretive art. "Give-'em-hell" Harry made plain speaking his trademark; he spared few enemies, in or outside politics. When Washington Post Music Critic Paul Hume panned a singing performance by Margaret Truman, the letter sent by her enraged father made headlines. But H.S.T. was not always as impulsive as his public tongue-lashings suggested. Another review by Critic Hume annoyed the President, and he complained in writing to Post Publisher Philip Graham: "Why don't you fire this frustrated old fart and hire...
Editor Monte M. Poen discovered 140 such unmailed missives, dating from 1945 to 1969, while doing research at the Truman Library in Independence, Mo. He shelved his planned project, a biography of Truman after he left the presidency, in favor of this trove of letters, and his decision was a happy one. Strictly Personal and Confidential offers a unique look at a man reacting naturally to enormous pressures. Truman often had second, more prudent thoughts about what he called his "spasms." Sometimes he would scribble furiously and then stuff the result into his desk while he cooled off; on other...
Peppered by criticism in what he called "our sabotage press," Truman frequently read the newspapers and blew his cork. He lectured reporters on the sins of their profession, calling William Randolph Hearst "the No. 1 whore monger of our time" and Columnist Westbrook Pegler "the greatest character assassin in the United States." Other public figures earned his unposted scorn, including "Squirrel Head Nixon" and Senator Estes Kefauver, whom Truman called "Cow-fever." Explaining his decision to relieve General Douglas MacArthur of command during the Korean War, he mentioned the "insubordination of God's right hand man." During...
...stand snub after snub by you." Although he came to admire John F. Kennedy in office, Truman privately called the 1960 candidate "the immature Democrat...