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...oozed into Vietnam, starting with President Harry Truman's decision to subsidize the French in their futile effort to retrieve their Asian colony. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy deepened our involvement, reiterating the "domino theory," the dubious notion that the collapse of Vietnam would spark a global wave of communist triumphs. As he escalated the commitment, Lyndon Johnson cautioned, in his typically gaudy rhetoric, that defeat would compel us to retreat to the beaches of Waikiki; his aides, whether or not they believed it, dutifully echoed the party line. Only afterward did Robert S. McNamara, the former Defense Secretary...
...Bush, I am working on the twelfth president of my life. They come and go. I grew up in Washington D.C. Each new president brings a new cast of characters to town, a new atmosphere, a new presidential personality, a new way of looking at the world. How different Truman was from Roosevelt. Both my parents were journalists, and, believe it or not, I picked up the Roosevelt-Truman difference, even when I was five. How different Eisenhower was from Truman. When Ike left in 1961, he seemed a gray old man and there was JFK, young and bright...
...Inside the territory destined to be known as the Beltway, many observers, Dowds of their day, greeted Lincoln as a knuckle-dragging simpleton from the backwoods. Descendants of such commentators viewed Truman as a dangerous mediocrity, an ex-haberdasher and party hack from the Kansas City machine. Commentary in our own time is liable to fall into the same supercilious perspective. We are all guilty, from time to time, of stupid judgments about leaders, because the outcomes are not known...
...Risinger also praised Harte for his successful term as fellowships tutor, through which he produced several Marshall and Truman Scholars, as well as a Rhodes Scholar...
...ITALY For a Few Billion Lira More In this spaghetti western, Berlusconi goes toe-to-toe with Rutelli. Where's Clint Eastwood when you need him? FIJI The Indians in the Cupboard That's where George Speight and friends want them?but the voters may disagree. SINGAPORE The Truman Show II: Another Day in Paradise The population gets suspicious when klieg lights fall from the sky killing the entire opposition?but no one does a thing about...