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Hailing from Littleton, Colo., Baer concentrated jointly in social studies and in Afro-American studies. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was named a Truman Scholar...
...appreciation for him deepened because he then instinctively decided to use his celebrity as a bully pulpit for causes greater than his own enrichment or self-aggrandizement. For several key years in the late '60s and early '70s, Lennon and Yoko Ono turned their lives into a virtual "Truman Show" to promote the issues they believed...
...great president, that much is certain, nor even, perhaps, a good one. He lacked the sweeping vision of a Reagan or a Roosevelt, let alone the decency and humility of a Truman; his only vision involved his own power, and the other virtues were banished from his White House early on. But he was an interesting President, perfectly suited for a time when politics resembles a spectator sport, broadcast into millions of homes through the good offices of CNN. He inspired more novels and biographies, more praise and more hatred, than any leader since Nixon--perhaps since FDR, even...
...since Harry Truman was tryin' to find the White House men's room," said the W.O.D. "And I promise you, son, it'll be the best thing for us since the Republicans nominated Goldwater...
...that? Gore did, too. The networks told everyone that "fact" on the morning of November 8, and Gore nearly conceded as a result. I figure that if you voted for Tom Dewey in 1948 and picked up your morning paper saying your guy had won, you probably thought Harry Truman subsequently stole the whole thing...