Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heady moments last week, Democrats could close their eyes, open their ears and imagine that they were back in the good old days of 1948. Arriving in Des Moines for Iowa's Jackson Day dinner, that self-styled "political has-been," Harry Truman, grinned happily at the sight of a team of midget mules hitched to a cart that bore the sign "Welcome, Harry. Give 'Em Hell." Said he: "I never did give 'em hell. I just told them the truth and they couldn't stand...
...farmers ... At Brookings, S. Dak. he said: ' The Republican Party is pledged to the sustaining of the 90% of parity price support, and it is pledged even more than that to helping the farmer obtain his full parity, 100% parity . . .'" With machine-gun persistence, Truman hammered his point home. "Just remember that the next time anyone talks to you about honesty and sincerity," he said. "Just look behind the mask and remember those promises . . . "Another Republican depression has started on the farms . . . Already the effects are being felt in the towns and cities that draw their major support...
...Corkscrewing the Truth." "No! No!" the crowd shouted fervently, and when Harry had finished, local Democratic bigwigs surged up to slap the ex-president on the back. In more than three years out of office Harry Truman had lost none of his ability to fire up the Democratic faithful-in fact the fire burned so merrily that some of his old friends in the party suspected he might be thinking of himself as a last-resort candidate...
...votes was some 20,000 less than Dwight Eisenhower got on the Republican ticket.) But despite the fact that Adlai and Estes continued to be concerned with their own Indian wrestling match. Democratic politicos last week were finding a new unity in attacking the Republicans. Led off by Harry Truman (see above), they fired thus...
...Adlai Stevenson, attacking what he called the Republican slogan of "peace, prosperity and progress," tried a Truman-ism for size: "What peace? Our peace seems to consist of a balance of terror in the world." Stevenson was appalled by the world around him. "NATO has never been so weak ... We have no policy in the Middle East." He quoted Eisenhower as saying at the time of his second-term announcement that some of the presidential work "can now be done by my close associates as well as by myself." Said Adlai: "I could not help but think of that little...