Word: truman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Featherless considered. "I would say F.D.R., because that way you could have Harry Truman for Veep. People like Harry, now that he's dead. But Teddy Roosevelt was great, too, and maybe we should have a primary fight to decide...
...nearly three years. Suspending revolutionary methods of working class agitation, the PCF concentrated its efforts on the legal conquest of a legislative mandate. The Communists dominated the entire public sector by 1947, from garbage collection to atomic energy development. But with the advent of the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine the party had either to abdicate its claim as a revolutionary party, or leave the government. Unwilling to gamble, the party went into a 20-year exile. Now, faced with the same political alternatives, the PCF remains consistent. In a milquetoast move that depicts the same ideological insecurity...
...Hampshire began giant-killing in 1932, when New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 snatched all eight Democratic delegates from front-runner Alfred E. Smith. Twenty years later, Senator Estes Kefauver's upset nudged President Harry S. Truman into retirement. When LBJ and Muskie flunked the New Hampshire test, they merely continued a time-honored tradition...
...with Dan Rather, and like Cronkite, he will have the title of managing editor. Uncle Walter, 63, who chose to stay out of the selection process for his successor, plans to continue as anchor at least through the presidential inauguration next January. "I've inaugurated every President since Harry Truman," he said last week. "I want to do one more." After that he is planning to stay on at CBS doing documentaries, special assignments and a new science show, Universe...
...race for the G.O.P. nomination. They maintain that the expressions of interest in a Ford candidacy are coming primarily from G.O.P. fence sitters who want an excuse not to back Ronald Reagan, George Bush or their rivals until someone looks like a winner. Says California Republican Chairman Truman Campbell: "Ford is a comfortable place of refuge...