Word: truman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Photographer Werth, who has lived in the Mount St. Helens area for more than ten years, said he began to feel the enormity of the disaster days later: "I've skied there, hiked there, worked there as a fire watch. Just last Saturday I was visiting old Harry Truman. Spirit Lake was absolutely calm, and Harry was running his lawn sprinklers. Now it's all gone...
...from again. His campsite was strewn with boulders, broken tree trunks and ash with the consistency of wet cement. By week's end at least 18 people were known to have died in the eruption; at least 71 were reported missing and feared dead. Among them was Harry Truman, a crusty 84-year-old who lived with 16 cats at a recreation lodge near Spirit Lake, about five miles north of the peak. He had refused to leave weeks ago, he had told national television audiences, because, he said, "no one knows more about this mountain than Harry...
Barber knows how to start an argument. In an election of conscience, was Goldwater really any less combative than Truman in a year of conflict? Was Nixon the conciliator in 1968 all that different from Nixon the scrapper a mere four years later? Barber's categories are considerably too neat, but his basic point deserves attention: an election depends as much on the mood of the time as it does on the qualities of the successful candidate. Tom Dewey, Barber argues, came on too strong in 1944, when the public yearned for unity, but was too weak...
...priority has to be the closest possible relationship with the President. You cannot conduct foreign policy as a contest between the President and the Secretary of State; they must be partners, with the Secretary, of course, as the junior member. The relationships that have worked best-say, Acheson and Truman, Dulles and Eisenhower and, I must say, mine and Ford's-developed when the President and the Secretary understood each other's thinking perfectly, and the question of principle between them never would arise...
...freedoms can be extended only by the arts of intelligence. In Philosophy and Public Policy, that intelligence oscillates between civility and perversity. "The Hero in History" summarizes his brilliant division of the "event-making" men who redirect history (Lenin, Peter the Great) and "eventful" men (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman) who are overtaken by circumstance. Yet his call for a corrective to the country's present antiheroic mood is simply an "intelligent political participation on the part of citizens"-a phrase indistinguishable from November editorials in small-town newspapers. His attack on Lillian Hellman, whom he calls "The Scoundrel...