Word: truman
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Swenson also helped choose books for the White House during the terms of presidents from Truman to Nixon...
...campaign. So much that his party got trounced anyway, reversing its long- standing majorities in both houses of Congress. Crowed one Senator who suddenly found himself in the majority: "The United States is now a Republican country." The year was 1946. The President was Harry S Truman...
...Democrats also lost control of both houses of Congress in elections in 1946 -- and Harry Truman went on to defeat Tom Dewey two years later. A caveat: Republicans show no inclination to nominate a presidential candidate with a mustache...
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., adviser and historian of Presidents, notes dryly, "I'm sure everyone in the White House is studying the Truman experience." A few months ago, in fact, it seemed that the entire Administration was reading David McCullough's Pulitzer-winning biography Truman. They are no | doubt reviewing pages 525 through 719, which offer the cautionary tale of the last Democratic President to scare away so many midterm voters that he ended up facing a hostile Congress followed by a fairy-tale sequel for the Democrats: the same President riding that very Congress, which he called "the do-nothing...
...fanatic Puerto Rican nationalists who tried to assassinate Harry Truman in 1950 attacked him when he was living across the street in Blair House while the White House was being renovated. One was killed on the sidewalk. A White House policeman also died...