Word: trumaning
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...absence of grand challenges, or at least of the clear good-vs.-evil challenges that can rally a people and call forth bold leadership. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were 20th century archetypes of the crisis leader. Mortal peril and powerful enemies can force leadership on ordinary men -- Harry Truman, for example. So can wrenching historic changes, like the dramatic endgame of the cold war, which cast players such as Reagan, Thatcher, Gorbachev and Walesa in historic roles...
Powell praised President Bill Clinton for committing America to support its allies in the spirit of former President Harry S. Truman and Gen. George Marshall. But the general cautioned that the United States must continue a military strategy based on the ability to wage two wars at one time. And he said American forces are still needed overseas, even in peacetime...
...Truman scholarship as a resident of New York, perhaps the most competitive state in the nation, Next year he will travel to Seoul, South Korea on a Luce scholarship, and then he returns for Yale Law School--notorious even among lvies for the tiny proportion of applicants who are admitted...
...fact that he's as successful as he is at these balancing acts may be more impressive than the Truman, Yale Law, or the World Debate Championship...
When President Harry S. Truman embarked on a desegregation of the army--not long after the Class of 1943 graduated from Harvard--Americans heard many of the same arguments we hear today in opposition to lifting the ban on gays. It would cause disruption. It would lead to fights. It would lower morale. It would present the armed forces from operating efficiently...