Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sudden glow which accompanied the Republican Administration even transformed personalities. George E. Allen, as a government official in the Truman Administration, was worked over as follows...
...Last week . . . the President [Truman] cased his croniest crony, George E. Allen, into the Board of Directors of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation." (Jan. 28, 1946) "George is all the more remarkable because, to the naked eye, he is a clown...
Time's technique is perhaps best revealed in its weekly column on the Presidency. Its reports on Presidential behavior are able to rise above objectivity and perceive distinctions where none are apparent. Thus, "President Truman flapped open his leather notebook and began in his usual flat tone to read his message to Congress on the State of the Union. When he finished 45 minutes later, he had made little news...
...casual observer might not have detected the difference in the way each President handled the question of whether he would seek a second term: "The subject of Harry Truman's 1952 intentions came up again in his weekly press conference. The President wasn't saying, just acting deliberately mysterious. It has become an unprofitable inquiry and a stale joke." (July...
...eyes of most U. S. citizens, Harry Truman's administration had bogged down in ludicrous futility." (June...