Word: truman
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...Assistant Secretary of the Navy during World War I, fancied himself a strategist of sorts. He loved to ride the bridge of a warship, wearing his black cape. But warfare was simpler then, and Roosevelt's long reign as an active Commander in Chief did educate him. Harry Truman had good instincts about war, and even better men around him. Ike, of course, knew roughly what he was doing...
...When Truman succeeded F.D.R., he said that he felt as if "two planets and the whole constellation" had fallen on him. Eisenhower was a good bit more relaxed when he took over from Truman: "My first day at the President's desk. Plenty of worries and difficult problems. But such has been my portion for a long time-the result is that this just seems like a continuation of all I've been doing since July 1941-even before that...
...question is hardly startling. Israel may represent the only people who have actually viewed the Apocalypse, but on Aug. 6, 1945, the rest of the world saw something that might pass for the Apocalypse until the right thing comes along. Hiroshima occurred, after all. No one dreamed Harry Truman's Promethean explanation: "It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war." At that time the bomb was thought of solely as a weapon. Some hold the dark theory that...
...Harry Truman buzzed the White House in a DC-4 called the Sacred Cow, which by 1945 had become a symbol of presidential power. Dwight Eisenhower, the only President to hold a pilot's license, moved us into the missile age and got a jet, a Boeing 707. John Kennedy got a newer one ("It's magnificent. I'll take it"), and the tradition of Air Force One was born at the same time Kennedy headed America for the moon...
...Zinoviev letter, supposedly a directive from Moscow to the British Communist Party, that toppled the government of Ramsay Mac Donald. There was the Zimmermann telegram that pushed the U.S. into the first World War, and the letter General Douglas MacArthur sent Congressman Joe Martin from Korea indirectly attacking the Truman Administration, after which Truman directly attacked the general, and fired him. Truman of course wrote a splendid impulsive letter to Paul Hume, the Washington Post music critic, after Hume had savaged a concert of Margaret's. But the impulse was canny since Truman knew that every father...