Word: truman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Truman's doctrine of aid for Greece and Turkey was not bellicose but bold. Kennedy directly confronted the Soviets in Cuba...
...Church marked the sesquicentennial in strict isolation from its larger competitor. Some 18,000 cheerful Reorganized Saints from 34 nations flocked to the domed Auditorium in Independence and sang such special hymns as We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet. On the site, eight blocks from the Harry Truman Library, they expect Christ to return and establish his kingdom...
...long had opened near the mountain's northern crest. Three hundred loggers working on the slopes, 50 forest rangers and their families and 60 residents of the tiny village of Spirit Lake (pop. 100), located at 3,200 ft., were evacuated. One defiant oldtimer, Harry Truman, 83, operator of the Mount St. Helens Lodge less than two miles from the crater, said he would stick it out. Truman's view: "That mountain just doesn't dare blow...
Sullivan also directed housing officials to move residents of the Miller River and Truman high-rise elderly housing complexes to lower floors and to close all windows and shut off air circulation systems in the buildings...
...Lyndon Johnson started, and Richard Nixon finished, running up a $3.2 billion surplus in fiscal 1969. Dwight Eisenhower balanced the budget three times, in 1955, 1956 and 1960; Harry Truman did it four times, in 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1951. Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Gerald Ford never...