Word: truman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article "More Than a Candidate" [Sept. 29], Hugh Sidey quotes "St. Harry" in an effort to deny Jimmy Carter his right to be warmly human. That is an irony we ordinary folk can hardly comprehend. Where was Sidey when Truman was trying to associate Henry Wallace with the Communists? We re-elected Harry in 1948; I predict we will re-elect Jimmy in 1980. He is one of us. Earl D. Martin Gloucester...
...like it a bit. While he voted reluctantly for Harry Truman in 1948, he was incensed by the Truman Administration's policy toward the movie industry, in particular an antitrust suit that forced the major studios to give up their ownership of theater chains. Says Reagan now: "I saw the whole economic stability of the industry just simply eliminated, the end of the contract system whereby they had been able to take young people-directors, actors, whatever-and develop them." It was the contract system that had given Reagan his start...
...Harry Truman, he thinks, was wrong to stage the Berlin airlift. The U.S. should have sent its trucks overland and called the Soviets' bluff; Moscow would have backed down and might have been better behaved thereafter. Douglas Mac-Arthur was correct about Korea. Had the general's view prevailed, Reagan speculates, "I don't think there would ever have been a Viet Nam." And Solzhenitsyn is correct today in his dark vision of what will happen tomorrow if the West fails to pull itself together...
...moved on to belittle Reagan's tenuous loyalty to federal aid for the poor and elderly, Carter carefully maintained his "golden years" motif. He pointed out that Reagan has dishonored the sacred memories of Democratic heroes, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and John F. Kennedy by twisting their words of hope and fortitude into justifications for heartless conservatism. These are words that many lower middle class Italians of Prince Street remember clearly; these are the leaders they still worship. Jimmy Carter knew he couldn't climb onto a marble throne next to FDR or JFK, but he also knew...
...through Washington last week people were recalling the age of Roosevelt, Acheson, Truman, Lovett, Forrestal, Kennan, Vandenberg, Eisenhower, Dulles and many more. It was a time when men and women moved in and out of Government, preserving and nurturing an attitude about U.S. participation in international affairs. More often than not they buried partisan feelings, consulted closely and hammered out lasting compromises that were clearly in the national interest. They assumed their responsibility principally out of a sense of obligation, and then because they enjoyed the work...