Word: truman
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Admirals and generals do not lose wars. Presidents do, or at least they fail to win them. Consider: Truman in Korea and Lyndon Johnson in Viet...
...speculating on whether Harry Truman might join the untouchables, it should be noted that his Administration dealt with 48 complex states and countless millions throughout the world. In Jefferson's and Washington's day our country was but a ribbon along the Eastern seaboard. Lincoln also presided during simpler times, holding together 36 predominantly agrarian states with a population of under 40 million...
When Secretary of State Dean Acheson signed the NATO treaty on April 4, 1949, as Vice President Alben Barkley and President Harry Truman watched, Western Europe was on the brink of economic collapse and its hastily demobilized armies were overwhelmingly outnumbered by the Soviets, 210 divisions...
Among our postwar Presidents, both Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower stand significantly higher today than when they left the White House. Eisenhower probably could have been elected on any platform he chose in 1952, but he and his Republican handlers relished running against the Truman "mess in Washington," and poor Adlai Stevenson, from Springfield, Ill., was not allowed to change the subject. Today that mess ("Communism, Corruption, Korea") is largely forgotten; we have seen worse. And Harry Truman has a reputation as a statesman-for the first postwar line drawing against the Soviets, the Truman Doctrine covering Turkey and Greece...
Aging was wonderful medicine for one President who left office widely despised: Herbert Hoover. He was 59 in 1933; the Depression shantytowns all over America were called Hoovervilles. By the time he died at 90 he was a Grand Old Man. Harry Truman, for all his fierce partisanship, had done much to rehabilitate Hoover, appointing him chairman of a well-publicized commission on Government reorganization. Historians would never come to credit Hoover with effective measures against the Depression, but people had long since stopped thinking he had caused it. On into his 80s, pink-cheeked and bright-eyed, he gave...