Word: trumaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foolish can the Democrats, including ex-President Truman, get? That A.P. picture in your March 3 issue of Harry and Faubus shaking hands across the table is good for hundreds of thousands of votes for Nixon...
INDONESIA. In 1949, after The Netherlands, in defiance of continual admonitions from the Truman Administration, persisted in its efforts to reconquer Indonesia, the U.S. Senate laid the cards on the table with a bill calling for suspension of economic aid to any nation whose conduct was "inconsistent ... with the charter of the U.N." Between such threats and the on-the-spot diplomacy of Merle Cochran, later first U.S. Ambassador...
Last week one of the most diverse citizens' groups ever assembled packed the Presidential Room of the Statler-Hilton in Washington to hear Harry Truman, at lunch, and Dwight Eisenhower, at dinner, kick off a bipartisan drive for a $3.9 billion foreign aid appropriation. In charge was the President's special foreign aid salesman, Eric Johnston. On hand were labor leaders and dowagers, bishops and Hollywood entertainers, the Democrats' Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson and Dean Acheson, the Republicans' Dick
...Time for What?" Both notes were sounded by Truman: "I have heard that there are members of Congress who expect to do most of their economizing in the budget this year by voting to cut the funds for foreign economic aid . . . People will forgive us for spending too much in the search for peace; they will never forgive us for refusing to spend enough . . . We are planning to spend $40 billion on defense next year . . . The only thing we can do with armaments is to buy time. Buy time for what? . . . The mutual security program is the cutting edge...
...Dime-a-Dance." Perhaps the best economic news of the week was evidence of basic agreement between responsible Republicans and Democrats in Washington. The agreement was hidden by a barrage of partisanship touched off by Harry Truman's blast at the Administration's stony-hearted attitude toward the recession. Republicans replied in kind, waving at Harry such red-flag terms as "dime-a-dance oratory" and "typical Truman claptrap." Even the President joined in the counterattack. "The economy of this country is a lot stronger than the spirit of those people that I see wailing about...