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First elected to office during the Truman administration, Bob Dole has just lost the New Hampshire primary for the third time. Imagine the glazed eyes of primary voters who trudge out to a Bob Dole "rally" and hear the candidate explain in excruciating detail the process of getting the START II Treaty out of subcommittee. Dole has never understood that the presidency is not the prime ministry...
...that the possibility of protecting Taiwan would depend 'on the circumstances' invites trouble. We should ignore China's claims to exceptionalism, stop psychoanalyzing the place, stop worrying that we might say something that offends them and state our interests clearly." Nothing emboldens tyrants more than mixed signals, Forbes said. "Truman got the Korean War because he was ambiguous, and Saddam took Kuwait because Bush didn't say 'No' straight...
WHAT IS A FRIEND? POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS HAVE PONDERED the question for centuries. Harry S Truman advised anyone looking for such a thing in Washington to buy a dog instead. But now the musing has taken on great urgency because friendship, it turns out, is one of the few exceptions to the draconian new congressional ethics rules that took effect on Jan. 1. These rules replace older, looser ones about accepting gifts, meals and junkets. The new standard in the House is "Zero Tolerance"--no freebies other than trifling gewgaws and home-state souvenirs from anyone at all, except family...
...case provides a classic presidential strategy memo for students to use as a model: a 1947 memo to President Harry S Truman, written by former Roosevelt Administration aide James H. Rowe Jr '31. Rowe's memo dealt specifically with key "third-party" insurgences of that time...
...veteran of Congress, died today at home of a brain tumor. He was just 45 years old. A feisty liberal who tirelessly battled the gun and tobacco lobbies, he nonetheless represented a district peopled mostly by conservative Democrats who favor gun rights and deregulation. "I always admired Harry S. Truman," Synar told the Associated Press in 1994. "He fought special interests, and he told it like it was." So did Synar, generally. He railed against the widely popular Gramm-Rudman law designed to prevent deficit spending during the 1980s. President Clinton today paid tribute to Synar, calling him "a brave...