Word: truman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Calling the Astrodome the "eighth wonder of the world," Bush told the friendly crowd to "get ready for wonder number nine," the "most stirring political comeback since Harry Truman gave them hell...
...itself. Now its criminal operations have led to the indictment of an 85-year-old man with a reputation for rectitude and a distinguished five-decade career. New York State and federal authorities have charged Clark Clifford, the patrician lawyer who has counseled every Democratic U.S. President since Harry Truman, and his partner-protege, Robert Altman, with conspiracy to defraud by helping B.C.C.I. secretly buy and control two large U.S. banks. In a parallel move, the Federal Reserve announced that it has started a civil action against the pair. Clifford faces up to nine years and Altman...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt (1944) and Harry Truman...
...Zionist plot." Though the New York indictments differ little from ones handed down by the U.S. Justice Department, it has been New York's Morgenthau who has set the agenda. The Saudis claim that his father, former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, was instrumental in persuading President Harry Truman to recognize the new state of Israel. (The theory is shaky: ironically, it was a young Clark Clifford who, as Truman's political counselor, did most to win recognition for Israel...
...Wallace's advocacy of civil rights and his utopian rhetoric about a global New Deal made him anathema to big-city bosses and conservative Southern Democrats. F.D.R. toyed with the idea of picking Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas to replace him, but finally settled on Missouri Senator Harry Truman...