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Bainbridge was also cognizant of the dangers his discoveries could have caused, and he was conscientious enough to take action. After World War II, he actively opposed nuclear testing and the escalating arms race, and was one of 12 scientists who lobbied President Harry S. Truman to promise that the United States would not be the first country to use a hydrogen bomb...
...world, to cancel the rally when he needs his sleep, to can the speechwriter who just won't cut it, to worry about who's in charge, to say the things no one else will when she tells her old man to clean up his language (Bess Truman), eat his broccoli (Barbara Bush), upgrade his jogging shorts (Hillary Clinton) or remind him with a Post-It note on the bathroom mirror to "Smile" (Elizabeth Dole). And to do it all with the curtains open and the lights...
...sign. When TIME ran a photo of a basset hound, Carter went to a kennel and took a paw print. In 1958, when seven Democratic presidential hopefuls, including Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson, turned up on the cover together, Carter got to all of them. Harry Truman signed three times, giving Carter good-humored hell for having built his collection on "such a prejudiced, pragmatic and purblind publication as TIME...
Because Harvard College and Radcliffe College are considered separate schools, however, Harvard was able to send a maximum of six students to the Truman finals and eight to the Goldwater finals...
...Five out of seven Goldwater recipients is awfully darn good," he said. "And we usually get two or three Truman winners, but we've had a few years with more...