Word: trumaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frontline whereabouts a secret. On Election Day, John listened to the returns by radio in his tent. Three months later, John was on hand to see his father inaugurated as President of the U.S.-by special order, at first unknown to Ike, of outgoing Commander-in-Chief Harry Truman...
...President at last count had seen only 15.8% of this session's proposals passed, large and small. In 1956 Ike's record stood at 45.7%; in the halcyon days of 1953 it was a whopping 72.7%. There was precedent for this downward trend of the percentages. Harry Truman, battling violently against his final Democratic Congress, managed to push, pull and maneuver through only a fraction of his requests. And Franklin Roosevelt, in his later terms, had to deal with a Democratic Congress that was in open revolt, a Senate Majority Leader (Alben Barkley) who resigned rather than back...
Dwight Eisenhower's problems were different from those of Harry Truman or Franklin Roosevelt. In the 85th Congress, controlling Democrats who were cautious about speaking out against Ike in previous years have spent the session turning him down on such major issues as civil rights, the budget, mutual security, school construction. Their confident unity was simply analyzed: Democrats, since Congress convened last January, have been preparing a record for 1958's congressional elections, beyond that for 1960's presidential campaign. And they early decided that they had little to worry about from a President who in spite...
Last week both politicians and reporters wondered whether Dwight Eisenhower's experiences with the 85th Congress would prompt him to alter his philosophy. Did he plan to wage a Truman-type "Give 'em hell" campaign next year against the men who had opposed his programs? His no was clear and unqualified. Said he at the press conference: "I will just have to pursue what is natural...
Rattling on amiably for readers of the Paris Review, aging (32) Boy Author Truman (Other Voices, Other Rooms) Capote painted an impressionistic portrait of the Artist as a Young Manic: "I despised school. I played hooky at least twice a week, and once I ran away with a girl who in later life achieved a certain fame. Because she murdered a half-dozen people and was electrocuted at Sing Sing. But there, I'm wandering again. Well, finally, I guess I was around twelve, the principal at the school paid a call on my family, and told them that...