Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided whether to run, stepped out and made his first major political speech of the season. Averell Harriman, who has said that he is not running, was the guest of honor at a big political rally in his own back yard at Albany. At that rally Harry Truman, who said he was not ready to announce his choice, slyly intimated that he liked Ave better than he liked Adlai. With that, Averell Harriman loomed larger than ever on the Democratic horizon...
Amidst the confusion, each party has a stabilizing factor. In the G.O.P. Dwight Eisenhower could-if he would-be an important force in selecting the nominee. Among Democrats, Harry Truman can-and he will-exert considerable influence. No matter what either man does, the prospect for the U.S. is a yearlong, two-ring political circus that may well be the greatest show of its kind in U.S. history...
...Albany. On the same day as Stevenson's speech, Averell Harriman was host to the first big political carnival of the season, a whooped-up "campaign workshop" in Albany for 1,700 Democrats running for local office in New York State this fall. Chief guest: Harry S. Truman. At least four times in the last six months, Truman has said he would support Stevenson in a second try for the presidency, but last week he changed his line...
...Boston before the rally, Truman declared that he would only announce his choice at the convention itself next year. He called himself "Adlai's friend," but added that at 64, Harriman was not too old for the presidency. Next day in Albany, Truman joined Harriman at a reception for 150 party leaders and their wives. In the vast, flag-draped Albany armory, the mass of party hopefuls were given box lunches, armloads of campaign materials, and later speeches by De Sapio, Harriman and Truman. No speaker mentioned Adlai Stevenson, and his picture was not among the big portraits...
...Drew Pearson thumped the bongo drums for President Fulgencio Batista too fervently. In return, Havana's leading newspapers and magazines last week were busy thumping Pearson. "If Truman called Drew Pearson a liar," declared Mario Kuchilán in Prensa Libre, "he was being generous." Columnist José Pardo Llada, who once hailed Pearson as an "ideal commentator," wrote in Diario National: "Our illustrious friend Drew Pearson has defrauded us." So fulsome was Pearson's praise for the Batista regime that even a Batista booster, Diario National's Luis Manuel Martinez, objected. He called Pearson a "gringo...