Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silly can some Republicans get? They rival the A.D.A. and Harry Truman in their hatred of Nixon. I consider Nixon, with his forthrightness, about the best asset in the Republican exhibit...
...only thing of its kind mentioned in the Biblical story was one cup which was not gold but silver. Joseph ordered it to be placed in the sack of his full brother, Benjamin, so he would have a pretext to keep him in Egypt. We all know that Harry Truman is rewriting history to suit the doctrines of the Democratic Party. Has Bob Poage undertaken the job of rewriting the Bible for the same purpose...
...wedding? "Well, sir," replied the ex-President of the U.S., "you wear the best pair of pants you've got, and just so long as you're covered up you'll be in style!" Thus, with the earthy touch that is his trademark, Harry Truman set a folksy sartorial tone for the marriage of his daughter Margaret to the New York Times's suave Foreign Deskman E. (for Elbert) Clifton Daniel Jr., 43, a silvery-topped North Carolinian who picked up a faint British accent during six years in the Times's London bureau, developed...
...having even his indirect quotations attributed to "a White House spokesman." Herbert Hoover also required written questions, and almost abandoned conferences altogether toward the end of his term. Franklin Roosevelt was the first President to master the press conference, and was its alltime king of repartee as well. Harry Truman tried to use the same methods, though his off-the-cuff answers often landed him in trouble. But F.D.R. and Truman rarely let themselves be quoted directly, and both cooled noticeably toward the conference as their years in office lengthened...
Dennis called his program "gradual disentanglement," rather than "isolationism." President Truman's intervention in Korea was "unjustified and unwise" in terms of foreign commitments, the former Foreign Service official stated...