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...speech was the opening event in a "Festival on the American Presidency" which is a joint effort of the Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson libraries...
...charmed a generation of guests. Heiress to fortunes from her father and her husband, a Pittsburgh steel magnate, she mastered machine-tool manufacturing, invested in cattle ranching, campaigned for an equal-rights amendment for women in the 1930s, and buttonholed Southwestern oil barons for contributions to her "hero" Harry Truman during his come-from-behind campaign in 1948. Truman reciprocated in 1949 by creating for her the post of Minister to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where her fetes for the duchess and footloose G.I.s inspired Irving Berlin's 1950 musical Call Me Madam. Her reign as Washington...
Nixon: You think of Truman-a fighter. Eisenhower-a good man. Kennedy-charisma. Johnson-work. Me -what...
...politics, and in both organizations he "fought the world communists." Fisher imparts to these neophyte political struggles a certain nostalgic high drama, and one of his stories ends signally. "It was only in class the next day that California came in." That is the story about the 1948 Dewey-Truman election, when the Republican students banqueted in premature celebration at Memorial Hall, while the disconsolate Democratic students trudged to their rooms after a rainy day electioneering in South Boston...
...Nelson Rockefeller. The President chided Congress for opposing his foreign policy as well as his economic program. He drew on another historical figure, Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg, to emphasize the need for a bipartisan foreign policy. A onetime Republican isolationist, Vandenberg persuaded members of his own party to support Truman's interventionist policy. "I do not expect 535 reincarnations of Senator Vandenberg," said Ford. "But I challenge the Senate and the House to give me the same consideration that Vandenberg sought and got for President Truman." More articulate than in the early days of his presidency, Ford drew...