Word: trumaning
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...killed the surplus? Not I, said the President. When George W. Bush gave his big budget speech last week--arguing that his tax cut was jump-starting the economy and that big-spending Democrats were squandering the surplus--he delivered it in Harry S Truman's hometown of Independence, Mo. At Harry S Truman High School. Under a portrait of Harry S Truman. The not-so-subliminal message: like Truman, the first President to push for health coverage for seniors, Bush would give 'em hell on behalf of older Americans...
Maybe all the Republicans needed during those endlessly frustrating Clinton budget fights was a good economic slump. The slowdown is not only "real," as George W. Bush needlessly pointed out in a campaign-style stump speech from Harry Truman?s hometown Tuesday, it?s given the White House the perfect vehicle to sell Americans on the articles of the Republican fiscal faith...
...Harry Truman came blinking onstage in somewhat the same way in April, 1945, when Franklin Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia. The obscure vice president from Missouri was called to the White House from his bourbon-and-water in Sam Rayburn's hideaway in the Capitol, just as Kay Graham was called from her children and domestic routine. Truman said he felt as if the sun, the moon and all the planets had fallen on him. Kay Graham did not exactly enjoy the moment, either...
...Truman became the common man as unexpected force, a marvel of feisty and principled adequacies, and much tougher than the smug suits thought. Substitute "woman" for "common man," and you have Kay Graham. Low expectations at the start lead on to a handsome kind of vindication...
...mean to compare Truman and Graham otherwise. Of course the personalities were different (Truman crisply combative, Graham rather shy, for example). And Kay Graham did not become president of the United States. She just took over a newspaper, and, at that time, not a great one either. She (with Ben Bradlee and others) made it great. She presided, at crucial moments, over a radical transformation of American journalism and its relationship to government and power. The publication of the Pentagon papers in 1971 and the Woodward-Bernstein investigation of Watergate starting a year later were acts of gambler's courage...