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...June 1945, just after the German surrender, George Gallup's polling organization registered an 87% job-approval rating for Harry Truman, the highest Gallup figure for any President on record even today. But researchers acknowledge that Truman himself had little to do with that endorsement, having taken office only two months before, when Franklin Roosevelt died. The unknown Truman rode the crest of relief...
...idea that the Vietnam War era would have seen fewer protests without television coverage is ludicrous. Harry S. Truman left office with incredibly high negative ratings in the wake of hundreds of protests against the Korean War. The urban riots of the Civil War were certainly not the result of media coverage...
...Robert Morse brings back to life the author, wit, bon vivant, self-pitier and true enchanter that was Truman Capote in this Tony-winning one-man performance, now on national tour, in Los Angeles through March...
Bush, unlike Professor Woodrow Wilson or even self-taught Harry Truman, is no historian. But he has never been beyond the shadow of conflict. As a young man, he remembers, he was "a little bit" aware as the Nazi armies overran Europe. "But the whole concept of the real atrocities and the things now that history so vividly records weren't driven home every single day to America," he says. "You've got to remember that in the end of the '30s there was kind of an isolationist fervor in some quarters. People saying, 'Hey, that...
...more than 40 years, the best antidote to isolationism was the invocation of the Red Menace. When Harry Truman wanted to send troops to Korea and Ronald Reagan decided to invade Grenada, all they had to do was suggest they were stopping the expansion of communism. There was already a political consensus about the nature of the challenge and the rationale for the mission...