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...World War I, when Turkey struggled to create a national and democratic state on the ruins of a defeated empire, Turks looked at America as the only Western country true to its ideals and respectful of human rights. A later political association between Turkey and America began with the Truman Doctrine in 1947, an imaginative and bold decision to lend support to Turkey and Greece during the bleak and uncertain period of the early postwar period. Turkey's membership in the NATO alliance in the ensuing years created a stronger link between the two countries...
...Gerald Ford could not quite bring it off. But he came achingly close to duplicating the upset victory of the fighting underdog he so much admired, Harry Truman, and he cannot be faulted for not trying. From the beginning, it was a long shot-an accidental President swept into office on a wave of scandal, stuck with the worst recession since World War II, confronted with a charismatic opponent in a bitter primary fight and then with an all-things-to-all-people Democrat in the general election...
...college is an institution that is dedicated to the future," declared Harry Truman. He never graduated from one himself, but he was one of the best-read Presidents in the nation's history, and he put great store by education. Thus it was deemed fitting that the nation's official memorial to its 33rd President should be a scholarship program. Its aim: to further the education of college students interested in public service...
...college juniors next fall will receive the awards. Each will be good for up to four years and will carry a maximum stipend of $5,000 per year. Though less than the funds backing the international Fulbright scholarship program, the $30 million that Congress has set aside for the Truman scholars should eventually pay big dividends in domestic leadership...
Clarence Barksdale, 44, board chairman of the First National Bank of St. Louis, said one trait was not essential: superior intelligence. He noted: "My home-state guy, Harry Truman, said, 'The C students run the world.' " Kansas City Police Chief Joseph McNamara, 41, pinpointed "good judgment." Said he: "We can have someone with wonderful traits. If his judgment is poor, the net results are going to be bad." Some noted that a leader showed his judgment in selecting as lieutenants people who either complemented his own skills or were smarter than the boss...