Word: trumaning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
BUSH I don't think there's one formula that fits all. In a book, Harry Truman wrote a chapter, "What to Do with Former Presidents," and he had a suggestion to make them nonvoting members of Congress for life. Well, who the hell needs that? It's ridiculous. I say, "Go out and do your own thing." It's individual. If future Presidents decide to work together, then great. But I don't think one size fits...
...foreign policy, but while the debate is happening, American institutions should cooperate with the American military. This argument is, to use a technical term, a load of crap. First, the last place to go if you want to change the military is into the military. In 1948, Harry Truman ended more than 100 years of military culture by integrating the Armed Forces. No comparable change to military culture has ever been achieved from the inside, because the U.S. military was set up to be controlled by civilians. Only Congress can change “Don’t Ask, Don?...
...week to discuss racial issues and Katrina disaster relief--prompting one of them to gently remind him that it was not African Americans but conservative Republicans who were her undoing. His reading of late has tended toward military history, which offers the comfort that other wartime Presidents, notably Harry Truman, endured scathing criticism by their contemporaries only to be redeemed by history...
...York Times’ Caryn James heralded a new trend for the winter movie season, an “explosion of Oscar-baiting performances in which straight actors play gay, transvestite or transgender characters.” Think about it—Philip Seymour Hoffman is the mincing Truman in “Capote,” Cillian Murphy is a pretty cross-dresser in “Breakfast on Pluto,” and Felicity Huffman is a midlife-crisis pre-op in “Transamerica.” And all that’s in addition...
...Kelly said. “They know you are smart, they know you are an expert in a field, they know you are passionate, but they want you to step outside of your experiences to see how you think.” Although Kelly also received the Truman Scholarship in 2004—a prestigious public-service fellowship awarded to college juniors—the news of the Rhodes still came as surprise to his family, he said. “[My family] didn’t even believe me at first. I called my mom as she was walking...