Word: truman
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Ernest Lefever. Though he calls himself a Harry Truman Democrat, the new head of the State Department's Office of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs represents a clear reversal of the pursuit of international human rights by past Democratic - and Republican - Administrations. In his writings, he has attacked Gerald Ford and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for "arrogance, illusion and capriciousness" in trying to promote majority rule in Rhodesia, and questioned their "undue alarm" over nuclear proliferation. In 1978, as head of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center, he caught Reagan's eye with...
...workers entered the Oval Office just as Dominador Julian, who has served every President since Eisenhower, was polishing the brass doorknob. They rearranged the furniture as Reagan had specified, moving the sofas into a conversation area. They also took on the Cabinet Room, replacing the portraits of Jefferson and Truman with those of Eisenhower and Coolidge. As Reagan explained to his Cabinet at their first meeting the following day: "Eisenhower is up there because I beat him for $10 the first time we played golf." The Coolidge painting, he said, was a tribute to silent Cal for reducing the national...
...York Times: "You don't have to be a Republican to tell that Ron Reagan is a very talented dancer." Yet Ron remains modest about his progress and cautious about his newly acquired notoriety. Says he: "You realize very fast that you could become another Margaret Truman...
...really been sticking to its tight money policy at all. In Sprinkel's view, Volcker "aborted the recession last spring" by injecting money rapidly back into the economy to ease the downturn during an election year. Said Sprinkel: "I have been watching the Fed since Harry Truman's days, and though Presidents have no direct control over the Fed, the White House does have all sorts of subtle influences to help it get the sort of monetary policy it wants...
...felt that Ronald was "a bit on the sissy side." So, should we call him Dutch? Dutch and Mommie? Granted, this is not the sort of problem that has the country's big thinkers in a tizzy, but perhaps nicknames count for more than they appear to. Harry Truman was lucky enough to have his given name sound like a nickname, so as President he had more than a nominal advantage. President Carter, on the other hand, strode into history on the announcement, "My name is Jimmy Carter, and I'm running for President." At first we thought...