Word: truman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...historic figures dealing with both minor and momentous events had been preserved while only the President was aware that every comment, however unkindly phrased or crudely expressed, might one day be revealed. The names on the Kennedy logs evoked an eventful era: General Douglas MacArthur, former Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and General Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...means the only Presidents to preserve conversations. Lyndon Johnson could reach under a table in the Cabinet Room and throw a switch among the buttons marked COFFEE, TEA and FRESCA to turn his recorders on and off. So far, only a few transcripts have been made public. Harry Truman is known to have made about ten recordings, and it was revealed only last month that Franklin D. Roosevelt used a mike in his office desk lamp to record at least 14 press conferences and a few other conversations. Eisenhower is known to have taped Oval Office conversations for more more...
...occurring between July 1962 and November 1963, on topics ranging from the Cuban missile crisis and the growing U.S. involvement in Vietnam, to domestic issues including labor conflicts and civil rights issues. It mentions more than 100 public officials, such as former presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman and several of Kennedy's top aides...
Reagan's most enjoyable moment last year may have been on the Fourth of July. Standing with friends on the Truman Balcony, he watched fireworks burst over the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. "He was ecstatic," claims one pal. Says another: "He is a ceremony freak...
...frontier, to beat the massed British armies. Lincoln, whose first commanders were bested by field tacticians of the Confederacy, turned to big armies, superior firepower and generals like Grant, who knew how to use them. Wilson and Roosevelt marshaled American industrial capacity to win World Wars. Johnson and Truman never figured out what they wanted, so they never made up their minds how to fight...