Word: truman
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...correctly suggest that President Truman threw his weight behind the creation of a Jewish state for humanitarian reasons. The U.S. has no historical commitment to support Israeli claims to the West Bank...
...whether states can exclude the children of illegal aliens from public schools and whether it is unconstitutional for the states to ban voluntary busing. Both positions mark an abrupt break from previous Administrations-Republican as well as Democratic-and the first retreat on civil rights enforcement since the Truman era. The department is also reviewing federal affirmative-action policies and has pledged not to seek hiring goals or quotas that might discriminate against whites...
When it came to presidential politics, Loeb was egalitarian in his prejudices: he treated virtually all Presidents and would-be Presidents with derision. His vituperation began with Harry "General Incompetence" Truman. In 1957 he labeled Dwight Eisenhower a "stinking hypocrite" for snubbing Red-baiting Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, a Loeb hero. In 1961 he declared John Kennedy to be "the No. 1 liar in the United States...
...Government officials bearing gifts") and an archival "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" ("We will not possess it. It will possess us"). Wits wondered if Duke could call it the Watergate Memorial Library. On Aug. 19 Trustee Emeritus Charles Murphy, a Washington lawyer who helped raise money for the Harry Truman Library, resigned to protest a plan that, he said, would inevitably result in a memorial to Nixon. Declared History Professor Richard Watson: "The question is, to whom are we erecting a monument? The answer is, to a President forced to resign to avoid being impeached. Mr. Nixon would have...
...worth recalling that Truman's Secretary of Defense James Forrestal opposed the creation of a Jewish state in the coldest days of the cold war, partly because he feared that Israel and America's commitment to it would hamper the twin strategic tasks of keeping Joseph Stalin at bay and keeping the peace in the oilfields and tanker lanes. Truman overruled Forrestal-but for reasons of right, not might. He was under no illusion that Israel was, or ought to be, a military ally or that the U.S. was fostering an anti-Soviet "consensus" in the area. Arab...