Word: truman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that for more than a century, Democrats have been kidnapping Lincoln without credit. Historian David Donald wrote an essay in 1951 on "Getting Right with Lincoln," detailing how Presidents in trouble had claimed kinship. Franklin Roosevelt once suggested that Lincoln was a father of the New Deal. This season Truman quotes have been manufactured and mangled, while his prepolitical identity is often shortened to "dirt farmer." There is a suspicion that very few have studied McCullough's splendid text, particularly the first part. Bush admitted he jumped over some of that and went straight to the campaign of 1948. (Young...
...Truman lived in Independence from age 6 to 21, the formative years. His circle was made up of well-to-do youngsters, and his intellectual companions in a superb high school were Mark Twain, Dickens, Plutarch, Tennyson and Shakespeare. He studied Chopin, Mendelssohn and Paderewski on the piano. His heroes included Cincinnatus, Scipio and Cyrus II the Great. He never played football, basketball or baseball. You might even say that in his place and time he was elitist...
...Truman Library in Independence noticed a get-right-with-Truman surge about the time of Jerry Ford, who insisted on having his portrait in the Cabinet Room. Jimmy Carter asked for Truman's THE BUCK STOPS HERE sign. The library sent him a facsimile. Ronald Reagan had a paperweight on his desk that said THE BUCKAROO STOPS HERE. Bush had McCullough into the White House for a Truman lecture, set up Harry's portrait in the East Room and happily hovered around...
...forget, Truman was a lousy speller ("Deleware," "occation"). Grab it, Dan. Get right with Truman...
...Presidency: Bush's Truman impersonation needs work...