Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general, Although the CRIMSON's Executive Board was Republican, its Editorial Board remained largely Democratic. Predicted chaos, however, did not arise in this non-election year. The paper managed to steer a moderate course, somewhat to the left of President Eisenhower, and considerably to the right of former President Truman. While we took comparatively few swipes at the president himself, we could not resist his Secretary of State...
Clement's vice-presidential strategy is fairly well set up. By withholding Tennessee's delegate vote from Home-Stater Estes Kefauver, Clement thinks he can win the favor of front-running Candidate Adlai Stevenson. With the help of his great admirer, Harry S. Truman, Clement hopes to land the coveted convention assignment as Democratic keynote speaker. From that platform Clement is certain that his talented tongue can get him onto a Stevenson-Clement ticket...
...first volume of Harry Truman's memoirs, serialized in LIFE, brought denials from Henry Wallace, ex-Secretary of State James Byrnes, ex-Attorney General Francis Biddle and ex-Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley. This week the first installment of Mr. Truman's second volume brought denials from Bernard Baruch, General Albert Wedemeyer and onetime Ambassador Patrick Hurley...
Behind the Barricades. The first man Ike sent to Washington, before inauguration, was Detroit Banker Joe Dodge, who was ticketed as the new Budget Director. Dodge looked over the shoulders of the Truman team as they polished up the $78.5 billion budget that Eisenhower would have to live with in fiscal 1954 (July i, 1953 to June 30, 1954). Before the year was over, Ike abandoned what he called "feast or famine" military policy in favor of the "long haul," with its accent on nuclear air power. Dodge, for his part, pruned $10.8 billion from the Truman budget, worked...
...came one day in Washington's Mayflower Hotel lobby, when handsome Mrs. Taylor spied Lewis' leonine head, bade her reluctant husband: "Myron, I want to meet that man ... so bring him over here." On retiring from active management, Taylor became a diplomatic troubleshooter for Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, was their personal emissary to the Vatican...