Word: truman
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...both cases, policy is backed only by irrationality and fear. Black soldiers were untrustworthy or incompetent. White troops wouldn't get along with them. On July 26, 1948, President Truman exposed the faulty logic and ended the military's segregation of Black troops...
...been an outsized test of political strength, and Bush has always had difficulties here. Buchanan could easily capture 30% of the G.O.P. primary vote; anything higher will be interpreted as a setback for Bush even if, technically, he wins. A Buchanan victory could roil everything. Since 1952 -- when Harry Truman decided to retire after losing to Estes Kefauver -- no one has been elected President without first winning his party's New Hampshire primary...
When you get elected president four times, people start to imitate you. After FDR, everyone had to have three names. Harry S. Truman holds the distinction of being the only president to go by his middle initial and middle name at the same time. Dwight David Eisenhower, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Richard M. Nixon all used one or the other. ("Milhous," Nixon's middle name, sounded like another word for puke and looked misspelled anyway. But he had to be RMN--his autobiography is even called RMN--since FDR, JFK and LBJ had so much fun with...
Precinct 2: Truman Apartments, 25 Eighth St. (Community Room, Thorndike St. entrance...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. once wrote that successful Presidents progressed only by defeating vociferous and protesting minorities. Franklin Roosevelt rode roughshod over entrenched minorities to create the New Deal. Harry Truman not only battled outside skeptics but also went against his own Secretary of State, George Marshall, in rushing to recognize the state of Israel in 1948. Political capital had to be expended...