Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHILE the presidential campaign was still in its infancy, Democrats Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson decided to blow the lid off the issue of corruption in government. "Racketeers," cried Truman in describing the members of the Eisenhower Administration for the edification of fellow Democrats at the Chicago convention. Far from disavowing Harry's reckless wording, Nominee Stevenson last week charged that a "contagion of Republican misconduct and corruption . . . has marked the Eisenhower Administration from start to finish...
Republicans cheerfully accepted the challenge to debate the issue of evil in government operation. In cold fury, Dwight Eisenhower replied to Truman and Stevenson at his news conference. "America," he snapped, "believes I am honest, that I am not a rascal, that I am not a racketeer." Added Richard Nixon at Gettysburg: "We'll be glad to compare the moral standards of the Eisenhower Administration to the Truman Administration any time of the day or night...
...Interstate Commerce Commission's Chairman, Hugh Cross (a Republican originally appointed to the ICC by Harry Truman), resigned after a Senate committee heard that he had approached railroad companies (over which the ICC has jurisdiction) on behalf of a friend seeking an inter-station transfer contract in Chicago...
That is the record to which Truman and Stevenson are pointing accusing fingers. The instances of wrongdoing in the Truman Administration cannot be similarly isolated; they come as a flow of names in a record of corruption that threatened to poison the entire U.S. Government...
...pals that Harry Truman gathered around him in the White House were among the headliners in the Truman Administration scandals. Brigadier General Harry Vaughan, the President's ever-present sidekick, began as early as 1945, helping a perfume manufacturer get around wartime travel restrictions to Europe and receiving, for his trouble, a deep freezer. Also on the deep-freezer list was White House Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly-convicted only this year of tax fraud conspiracy during his White House days. In 1947 Truman denounced grain speculators for driving prices higher, soon discovered that his personal physician, Brigadier General Wallace...