Word: truman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memoirs again," says Sidey. "Richard Nixon once introduced me to him in Paris. What a master De Gaulle was at sculpting public opinion, at understanding the moods of the people. He remains a great mentor for the world in the leadership business." Additional insights came from President Harry Truman, by way of Rosalynn Carter, whom Sidey interviewed for the story. "She had been reading his memoirs and had come up with a favorite quotation: 'Any schoolboy's afterthought is worth more than the forethought of the greatest statesman.' I think she was trying to tell me something...
...modern history has a President fallen to such murky depths in the national affection. George Gallup, the dean of the opinion samplers, who has been measuring voter sentiment since 1936, found just 15 days ago that Carter had only 21% approval, eclipsing Richard Nixon's 24% and Harry Truman's 23%, the other lows. In the data that Pollster Louis Harris has assembled is even worse news. On no single issue surveyed does Carter have a majority of voters who stand up and say they like him. Question the American people now about the hostages in Iran, our approach...
...think he is the best-informed President that we've ever had. He has grown and matured, and now he has a lot of the tools in place that he did not have. This country can get great service out of him." But it was wise old Harry Truman who said that men do not change much after a certain age, that we only learn more about them. New York Senator Daniel Moynihan has observed that Carter's Administration has a "learning disability." That also seems to be the essence of the skepticism that grips the majority of Americans...
...years, starting in 1963, Tynan served as literary manager of Britain's National Theater under Director Laurence Olivier. He "devised" the 1969 Oh! Calcutta!, a series of skits devoted to simulated sex and unsimulated nudity. Having written about topics from bullfighting to ballet and from Charlie Chaplin to Truman Capote, he recently published Show People, which profiled several personalities (among them: Ralph Richardson, Johnny Carson) whom he would invite to "an ideal dinner party...
Novelists during the past 20 years have been so busy making up the truth that they have not had much time for fiction. The names of Norman Mailer and Truman Capote spring immediately to mind, along with their catchy formulations, "nonfiction novel" and "the novel as history." Mailer, nurtured on emanations from Marx, Freud, Kierkegaard and Wilhelm Reich, can be an inspired explainer of the modern cloven spirit. Capote, the old Southern boy, steeped in regionalism and the oral tradition, is the storyteller, the Mother Goose of U.S. writing...