Word: truman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them Polish Americans, crammed the pin-neat houses pinched together on 30-ft. lots along residential streets like McDougall, Yemans and Poland. Every morning almost the entire working population would trudge off to Dodge Main. Hamtramck was a joyous, clean, democratic, workingman's town that drew Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson and Jack Kennedy to campaign alongside proud mayors like Albert Zak, Joseph Grzecki and Raymond Wojtowicz. Robert Kozeran, the city's current mayor, remembers that at 9 p.m., when the factory whistle sounded to end the second shift, "If you were a kid and you weren...
...aide, just about "moved over to the White House." Other top aides served as sounding boards for the President's ideas, as did veteran foreign policy experts from outside the Administration, like Clark Clifford, the former Secretary of Defense, who has counseled every Democratic President since Harry Truman...
...British agreed to end their World War II occupation of Iran, but the Soviets reneged. They increased their forces and set up autonomous regimes in the northwestern provinces of Azerbaijan and Kurdistan. In a little-known episode of nuclear diplomacy that Jackson said he had heard from Harry Truman, the President summoned Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko to the White House. Truman told Gromyko that Soviet troops should evacuate Iran within 48 hours-or the U.S. would use the new superbomb that it alone possessed. We're going to drop it on you,'" Jackson quoted Truman as saying. "They...
...march, and either he plays the central role or no one does. Soviet intentions must be redefined, free-world interests stated, and American power positioned to provide political unity and hold territory. It is not the sort of thing most Presidents like to do. It is dangerous work. Harry Truman, it is said, would just as soon have ducked U.S. involvement in the Greek-Turkish crisis of 1947. He concluded he could not, and the Truman Doctrine was born. It was perhaps his finest hour...
DIED. Oscar R. Ewing, 90, head of the Federal Security Agency for five years before its 1953 reconstitution as the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; in Chapel Hill, N.C. Ewing, a Wall Street lawyer, led Harry Truman's bid to win nomination as Franklin Roosevelt's running mate in 1944 and engineered his 1948 presidential campaign. At the F.S.A., he sharply expanded the Social Security system. Critics accused Ewing of helping to build a welfare state, but he insisted that federally provided basic services were "the best possible defense against socialism...