Word: truman
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...after generations when military service was a prerequisite for elective office -- so that ambitious young men from Harry Truman to George Bush clamored to be in combat -- an unrepentant draft avoider has been elected President. And Bill Clinton says one of his first official acts will be what an agonized hierarchy sees as the gravest challenge ever to military folkways. Their last refuge of traditional masculinity, of an orderly and authoritarian world of moral black and white, is to be opened to admitted homosexuals by Executive Order. The proposed change comes at the same time that a presidential report recommends...
...question seems to revolve around prejudice, with one side denouncing it and the other saying it is a fact of life that even a permissive society must bow to. Not surprisingly, it has become fashionable to equate the situation of gays now with that of blacks when President Truman fully integrated the armed forces by Executive Order in 1948. "People said blacks and whites couldn't serve together," observes Naval Academy professor Paul Roush. "It was generally accepted that blacks couldn't do the work and whites wouldn't serve alongside them. We got beyond that, and now the armed...
...parents' apartment on New York City's East 74th Street, next to the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral, where his father serves as dean. There is little George in his white-and-gold altar-boy robes next to Archbishop Iakovos. There he is, poised and smiling, accepting the Truman scholarship from Margaret Truman, and robed again as the salutatorian at Columbia University...
During the 1992 elections, McCoullough said he saw all three candidates attempting to draw inspiration from Truman's career...
...that Clinton has been elected, McCoullough said, it is the model of Truman's honesty and industry that "will make the difference between a so-so presidency and one that really matters...