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...Today, the issue of leadership is more acute than ever. As Jimmy Carter struggles to rally a nation troubled by recession, inflation and the energy shortage, TIME again examines the problems of leaders?and followers. In these pages, an introductory essay analyzes the state of the art that Harry Truman defined as "the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do, and like it." In succeeding stories 24 prominent Americans select the leaders now living who they believe have contributed most to the nation, and there is a review of what has happened...
...Carter's rating in the ABC News-Louis Harris poll in mid-June was 25%. Harry Truman received 23% in the Gallup poll during the Korean...
...Nicholas Henderson, new British Ambassador to Washington, on changing customs: "Now, I see, the main sport is jogging. When I served here before, the main sport was baiting President Truman...
There is a great mythology about how men change in the presidency. Harry Truman scoffed at any such notion. "After a certain age," Truman said, "it's hopeless to think people are going to change much." Jimmy Carter may be the one to prove Harry wrong, but the evidence at this moment is that Presidents who try to be what they are not create more chaos than they cure...
...Pearson, says Anderson, had an early tip on Alger Hiss's Communist connection but, unable to substantiate it, had turned it over to the Government. And when McCarthy needed evidence to support his wild charges of Reds in Government, Anderson gave him an unsubstantiated tip about one of Truman's speechwriters; a & amp;quot;burn of shame singed through me," he says, when McCarthy denounced the man in the Senate. In time, McCarthy turned on Pearson, who had never been a big fan of the Senator's anyway. Calling Pearson an agent of Moscow, McCarthy demanded...