Word: truman
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Just before the Senators filed in, Lott placed a Santa hat on the sign, a reminder that the legislation, which would set in motion the largest reorganization of the Federal Government since the Truman Administration, was the biggest thing standing between a cranky lame-duck Senate and its holiday break. Lott got the deal he wanted, but the props speak to larger realities about the new department. It's a creature born of politics, haste and a leap of faith. President Bush initially rejected the concept, then embraced it last June amid revelations of large-scale pre-9/11 intelligence...
...biggest reorganization since Harry Truman combined War and Navy into a single Defense Department after World War II, and that one required several retoolings over the next four decades...
...department, which will control 22 different government agencies, including the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard. The cabinet-level department is intended to bridge the gap between protection and intelligence. This restructuring is the most significant change to the executive branch of the federal government since Harry S. Truman created the Department of Defense...
...went on to give a moving speech about the importance of a thorough understanding of the past, quoting President Harry S Truman in saying, “The only new thing in the world is the history you don’t know...
McCullough himself was so devoted to empathizing with the subject of his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman that he ran the exact the same route President Truman ran through the Capitol upon being informed of the death of Theodore Roosevelt—even down to the time...