Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what if Ike misused a pronoun? What about the language Harry Truman uses when referring to Dick Nixon? The very idea...
...agree with the man who said that Harry S. Truman "is a man of letters." Those letters are p.h.e.w...
...Honorary Inspector." For five years Nelson Rockefeller was the dominant figure in U.S. policy in Latin America, conceived the idea of exporting American technical know-how to underdeveloped countries, the germ of what later became Harry Truman's Point Four Program. He resigned as Assistant Secretary of State in 1945 when President Truman appointed James F. Byrnes to succeed Edward Stettinius, but in 1950 Truman called him back to launch Point Four. As chairman of the International Development Advisory Board, he wrote the charter that still serves for U.S. policy in technical assistance...
After stepping out of the Truman Administration late in 1951, Nelson Rockefeller returned to the national political scene in 1952 to campaign for Dwight Eisenhower. He moved back to Washington as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Government Organization, which was made an official arm of the Executive Department by the new President's first executive order. Rockefeller's committee prepared ten major reorganization proposals, e.g., unifying foreign aid under one agency. Its major proposal: a tenth Cabinet department with responsibility for health, education and welfare...
...trip to Tokyo next day. In the dream a high official, a civil servant and a young woman were also killed in the crash; in the actual flight the local governor calls to ask if there is room on the air marshal's plane for Lord Wainwright (Ralph Truman), a colonial officer (Alexander Knox) and his secretary (Sheila Sim). The fatal conditions are completed when "a coarse, flashy man" (George Rose) wangles passage, the radio conks out, the pilot (Nigel Stock) gets lost in a snowstorm over Japan...