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...professorship is only one of many awards Steiner has received for his work, including Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and the Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy and the recipient of France's Legion d'honneur...
...also consult generational differences. Whites of Byrd's generation might sometimes have said "n-----" in the past without any consciously malevolent intent. Land sakes, the word was just sort of casual, conversational, descriptive. Nothing ugly meant. It has often been noted that Harry Truman used the word, which was part of his native Missouri's culture, you might say. And Truman was the man who integrated the armed forces...
...Presidents do good works, make the occasional peacemaking mission, oversee the construction of a shrine for their White House relics. The biggest payoff of all as a former President transubstantiates from pol to statesman is seeing the traits that annoyed and enraged people while he was in office--Harry Truman's commonness, George Bush's blandness, Jimmy Carter's righteousness--come to be regarded as virtues. To be a successful ex-President, Bill Clinton must first find a way to let go of his presidency. Or, even harder, find a way to make...
Wahid's options are narrowing fast. On Thursday, while parliament was voting 393 to 4 to censure him, Wahid at first tried relaxing to a tape recording of U.S. President Harry Truman's biography. "He identifies with Truman," says one palace insider. "Truman said his support came from the silent majority." But in Indonesia, the silent majority doesn't count nearly as much as the military. So Wahid hastily summoned his Defense Minister, his security adviser and the chiefs of the armed services for a meeting at the palace. The President discussed various options for maintaining order, including declaring martial...
There is a long history of gale winds and frost on Inauguration Day, often inside the White House itself. Andrew Johnson turned up drunk for Lincoln's second Inaugural; Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt barely spoke on their way to the Capitol, and Ike refused to have coffee with Truman. The Clintons, true to form, were nearly half an hour late to meet the elder Bushes at the White House in 1993. This time they had a few minutes to kill, so the First Couple enjoyed one last dance in the White House foyer while they waited for the Bushes...