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Hersey, who had spent a similar week with Harry Truman in the White House in 1951, scrutinized the President for any telltale "signals of stress under the calm exterior." But none were evident. The author speculates that Ford has so long been on the losing political side in the "national poker game" as a minority Congressman that he has learned to mask his feelings completely...
...Roosevelt gave us electricity," says Mrs. Woodside. "It changed our lives. I'll never forget it." She and her husband quietly cheered Harry Truman but were offended by his language. Ike was a "dear old man," but not a very good President as viewed from the Woodside corner. John Kennedy they liked immensely. Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon got a quick dismissal. So does Ford...
...forces in the world. He was the champion of 'the new Asia.' " But when he failed to live up to his image as China's man of destiny, and the new Asia so ardently expected by Americans failed to materialize, Chiang found himself abandoned by the Truman Administration. That placed Chiang at the center of an unhappy chapter in postwar U.S. history: the hate-filled witch hunt for those who "lost China...
Chiang's supporters in the U.S. blamed his defeat on the Truman Administration, which had rejected the Gimo's appeals for a massive increase in U.S. aid after the war and cut off support entirely after the Nationalists' flight to Taiwan. The flow resumed six months later at the outbreak of the Korean War, reaching a total of $4 billion before it was finally ended in 1965; Washington regarded Chiang as an important ally in the U.S. efforts to contain Communism in Asia...
...vanquished two enemies about whose evil nature there was little doubt (the Nazis were perfect devils, and the Japanese of that era were quite satisfactory villains too), the U.S. was not accustomed to moral ambiguities. It was ready to take on another foe with global ambitions: international Communism. The Truman Administration launched a challenge to Communist expansion with a degree of bipartisan support that the nation had never before known in peacetime - certainly not in the turbulent periods after World War I, when Senate leaders bitterly fought President Wood-row Wilson over U.S. membership in the League of Nations...