Word: truman
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...This week Bush's approval ratings sank to levels that had pollsters quietly whistling through their teeth. It's not just the number, 34% - Truman holds the record, when only 23% approved of the job he was doing in November of 1951, and Nixon fell as low as 24%. (In contrast, among the most beloved in year six of their presidencies were Eisenhower at 64%, Reagan at 63.5% and Clinton at 57%.) What struck the surveyors was Bush's 60% disapproval number, and the fact that 47% stronglydisapprove. That's like trying to climb out of a deep hole filled...
...prepare you for doing this job - your wisdom or lack of it, your experience or lack of it, your personality, your frame of mind. But nothing totally prepares you for it because you've never been there before - you've never been in the place where as President Truman said, ?The buck stops here.? It's your decision that will count. I hope that I'm as ready as I can get. I hope that I'm as capable as I think I am to assume responsibility. But I'm not afraid, I'm not intimidated by anything...
...prison sentences during World War II. The first indictment came in 1943, when his conscientious objector status during a draft led to a conviction for violating the Selective Service Act. In 1945, he spent a year in a federal penitentiary for similar charges until he was pardoned by President Truman. He then went to the University of Pennsylvania Law School to further pursue his beliefs in criminal justice reform. He later became a law professor and taught in the subsequent years at The University of Nebraska College of Law, Penn’s Law School, and finally at the Boalt...
...Appearing relaxed despite three cups of coffee, DeLay played with his petite dogs and led a leisurely tour of his home. Upstairs, he offered a frame-by-frame description of the photos reflecting his past political clout, such as a private session on the Truman Balcony with the President and First Lady Laura Bush. The first frame marks the beginning of his arc from pest-control entrepreneur to a feared and ingenious power broker. It's the front page from a local paper, the Herald-Coaster, from 1978, proclaiming, "DeLay Is House Winner." That was the Texas House; voters sent...
...First of all, it is not very parallel to '94. It is a little parallel to earlier periods where presidents had low poll ratings. It may be more like '78 when Carter was in a little bit of trouble, or '74 for Republicans, or '50 for Truman. My simple-minded theory is that the Democrats are wrong on both policy and implementation. The Republicans are right on policy, but failing on implementation...