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...North Korea cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb," Clinton said firmly last November, no doubt recalling that the last time a U.S. Administration got Korea wrong, the body-bag business became a growth industry because Harry Truman took too long to give 'em hell. "Drawing a line in the sand early is what you should have done in the '50s," says a Japanese diplomat. "Today you should be softer. Kim's bottom line is still his regime's survival, but victory is defined differently this time. Kim knows the way to win in the '90s is by joining...
...scientific resources that had been marshaled for World War II -- including the top-secret Manhattan Project, which built the atom bomb -- were reorganized to serve the period of economic growth (and the uneasy peace) that followed. Under a philosophy outlined by Vannevar Bush, science adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, the huge flow of public dollars allocated to cure diseases and fight the cold war was distributed according to a chaotic system dubbed "scientific pluralism." Basically this meant that the money was funneled through review boards manned by scientists, who gave it to researchers proposing projects considered worthy. The system...
During Clinton's campaign, he pledged to integrate gays into the military. He could have accomplished this simple goal through simple action. In the tradition of Truman, Clinton merely needed to issue an executive order on day one of his administration. Instead, because he feared--somewhat correctly--that he lacked credibility with the military, he began an extensive consultation on how to deal with the problem. Mistake number...
...right of every self-respecting armchair decorator to criticize the First Family's taste. The Lincolns were disparaged as spendthrifts. Rutherford Hayes' refurbishings were deemed "French-y and pretentious." Teddy Roosevelt smeared the Green Room with a polar-bear pelt, and purists reached for the smelling salts when Harry Truman built a balcony over the South Portico. Even decor queen Jackie Kennedy was sharply rebuked by the President himself when an all-too-authentic antique chair collapsed under him at the dining table...
...Truman Application...