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...senator mentioned Harry S Truman when he spoke of the need for “new, visionary leaders...
...degree at the urging of his wife Maureen and went on to a five-decade political career, including 24 years in the U.S. Senate. He changed that institution, encouraging everyone, especially junior Senators, to speak out. At the end of World War II, as a junior Congressman, he advised Truman to allow Japan to keep its Emperor when the country surrendered. At his retirement from the Senate, he served as U.S. ambassador to Japan for 11 years...
...19th century, it took the British navy the better part of 50 years to close down the Atlantic slave trade. If Bush is serious, he has laid upon his successors a task hardly less demanding than the one he has adopted for himself. In just such fashion did Harry Truman in 1947 commit his nation to a 40-year-long cold war against totalitarian communism...
...sherry in his room before breakfast, a couple of glasses of Scotch and soda before lunch, and French champagne and 90-year-old brandy before he went to sleep. About the only thing they have in common goes between the lips; very occasionally, Bush sneaks out on the Truman balcony of the White House and enjoys a cigar...
...Some of the new police in street clothes are on skate boards with the young dudes, standing at the fence with the tourists gawking at Harry Truman's balcony, wandering into the White House Visitors' Center to watch the few people who are watching for police officers...