Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the unexpectedly strong plea for basic revisions in the McCarran-Walter Act is not going to effect the needed reforms in an election year. Faced with President Truman's veto of the Act just before the last election, over two-thirds of the House and Senate, voted to over-ride. And among those who voted to pass the Act were many Democratic Senators who now control important posts--Johnson, George, Fulbright, Byrd, Eastland--as well as both Knowland and Bridges. If the President puts his full authority behind the changes, however, Congress should accept some, even...
...Democrats are so horrified at the thought of Dulles bringing us face to face with the "brink of war," then it seems fair that the Republicans can publicly be even more upset about the way the Truman Administration let us fall over backward into...
Elder Politician. The occasion really belonged to the small man with the big grin who waved to a friend here and chuckled at another there. Harry Truman was enjoying the role of "Mr. Democrat," the party's elder politician. When the former President of the U.S. rose to speak, shouts of "Come on, Harry" popped out around the hall. He came on. "Whether our candidate is here tonight or not," he said, "I can tell you this: we are going to give the American people a chance to vote for a President-and not a regency or a part...
...Truman said that what worries him most in the political scene of 1956 was "the shambles that is being made of our bipartisan foreign policy." His story: "I did everything I could to keep foreign policy out of partisan politics. But the Republican politicians attacked our foreign policy so violently in the 1952 campaign, they were stuck with their own propaganda. They had to pretend to change the foreign policy whether the change was good for the country or not. [They] cut down our armed forces-in the face of growing Communist strength -so they could claim to reduce Government...
...pondering the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy to prominence and power for a good many years to come. Even more spectacular, in a way, has been the Wisconsin senator's rapid descent into almost as much political obscurity as a United States senator can ever hope to attain. Harry Truman and Richard Nixon are not exactly noted for their harmony on most issues, but both have labeled McCarthy a political has-been in recent months and agree that his power has virtually evaporated. A.D.A. national chairman Joseph Rauh, Jr. tuned in his sensitive antennae on McCarthy last summer and gave...