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...than any other President in memory. In addition to having a remarkably healthy psyche, the President is a moral man with surprisingly accurate instincts about what is good for this country. At least he will not sell our interests down the river as Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman did when they dealt with the Soviet Union at Yalta and Potsdam. Gail Funaro Cerritos, Calif...
Some time during the Truman Administration, the yearning to see her old hometown before she dies overcomes a widow lady named Carrie Watts (Geraldine Page). It is understandable: she lives with her dispirited son (John Heard) and his bossy wife (Carlin Glynn) in a cramped city apartment. The arrangement is getting on everyone's nerves...
...widespread use in future wars. Oppenheimer, influenced by Niels Bohr, idealistically envisioned openly sharing nuclear information with the Soviets to avert an arms race. He feared atomic war and nuclear terrorism. Oppenheimer used the fame that came out of the Manhattan Project to press these issues, but President Truman described him as a “cry-baby scientist” after Oppenheimer confessed, “I feel I have blood on my hands...
...Truman Fellowships are awarded to one college junior from each of the fifty states who displays “exceptional leadership potential” and who is “committed to a career in public service...
...Harvard has lots of great students. Amar thinks a little more outside of the box,” he said. “I think his project for the Truman fellowship was very creative and unconventional, and that is where he stood out most...