Word: truman
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Bradley held 28 different Army posts while working his way up through a series of teaching, training and administrative assignments. After the war, his fellow Missourian Harry Truman nominated Bradley as the first postwar head of the Veterans Administration and then, in 1949, as first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In that position, Bradley was awarded the fifth star, accorded to a General of the Army, a title held by only four other men since the Civil War: George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold and Eisenhower...
Buried beneath our prejudices and the actuarial tables is a fact: Ronald Reagan, at 70, may have been the healthiest man to assume the presidency since Harry Truman...
...White House for warmth and flattery, and thus renewed, Ickes would go back to his tasks, one of which was being Roosevelt's lightning rod. Resignation would be forgotten until next time. After Roosevelt's death, the Secretary delivered his umpteenth offer of resignation. Harry Truman did not talk the same language. He took Ickes at his word. Goodbye Ickes...
...history lesson comes from Harry Truman. Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace had predicted that at the end of World War II the Government would have to intervene massively to help create 60 million jobs. "Instead, Harry Truman-bless his soul-decided to go with the free economy," says Regan. "Without understanding economics worth a damn he understood what the country needed economically. He and my predecessor here, John Snyder-the country banker and the country bumpkin-knew more about economics than many sophisticates out of my alma mater or anywhere else. Economics is not a science...
...political purposes consists in threatening their use in order to achieve political objectives. This type of coercion was employed during the years when the United States held a monopoly on nuclear weapons (until 1949) and then a virtual monopoly on intercontinental delivery systems (until late in the 1950s). Truman threatened to use nuclear weapons in both Iran and Korea, and Eisenhower again threatened in Korea. During the era of clear United States superiority in nuclear weapons, Kennedy was able to use their coercive effects to force show-downs in crises over Berlin and Cuba...