Word: truman
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...spotlights picked him out first, a slim figure proceeding to the dais through a darkened Madison Square Garden. Jimmy Carter was about to give a speech crucial to his hopes for staying in the White House. Not since Harry Truman had a President received such a grudging, unenthusiastic nomination from a Democratic Convention?and Carter was starting from an even lower rating in the polls than Truman had carried into that campaign of 1948. The President had to set both a tone and a theme for his own uphill race, and he had to do it immediately...
...tone he was able to attain, by adopting Truman's give-'em-hell style. Perspiration pouring from his face, his voice hoarse, his eyes coldly angry, Carter gave a shouting stump speech unlike almost any he has delivered before, in content as well as manner. It was a headlong assault on his rival, Ronald Reagan, depicting him as a dweller in "a world of tinsel and make-believe" who would "launch an all-out nuclear arms race" and start "an attack on everything that we've done in the achievement of social justice and decency in the last 50 years...
...Carter tries to pull a Truman against a formidable opponent with a well-defined appeal, his problem is not simply that he projects an image of faltering leadership: the party he is trying to lead is itself in trouble. In Congress, the days of comfortable Democratic majorities may be past. A July poll showed the public favoring Republican congressional candidates over Democrats for the first time since 1952, 47% to 43%. The Democratic majority of 116 in the House could easily be reduced by 30 to 50 seats, and some Democratic leaders are afraid that a landslide Reagan victory might...
...Soldier's Embrace, Nadine Gordimer ¶Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ¶Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ¶ Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote ¶ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ¶ The Magic Labyrinth, Philip Jose Farmer ¶ The Second Coming, Walker Percy
Merle Miller is a novelist, journalist and author of the 1974 bestseller, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman. What is an oral biography? Essentially, it is a dramatic device to present a subject through an arrangement of quotations threshed from hundreds of interviews. The result is documentary folklore in which the leading character-usually described as larger than life-does not stop growing simply because he is dead. Miller's Truman emerged as the most uncommon common man ever to say s.o.b. in the White House. Until, of course, Lyndon Baines Johnson...