Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer travel season was coming to an end, but a lot of people were still wingdinging around the world. After dining with Cinemactor Rossano (Summertime) Brazzi, Margaret Truman wound up a ten-day Roman holiday by taking the Paris Express for London, where Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. will put her up.' Accompanied by his wife and two law partners, former Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey took off on a monthlong, "entirely personal" air trip around the world, during which he will visit twelve countries. Cruising from port to port in the Mediterranean aboard Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis...
...closer investigation, McCormack seemed to be talking through his political hat. The Air Force had developed the SAGE (for Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) system under President Truman as a sort of electronic umbrella for the entire nation. President Eisenhower had ordered SAGE adopted as quickly as possible. SAGE would cost the Air Force $5 billion over the next ten years. Of this amount, almost half would...
...security issue is as old as the Cold War itself. It was a major point of dispute in the last presidential election when Republican leaders charged that the Truman program was not effective in clearing government service of subversives. Following his spectacular victory, President Eisenhower issued the controversial Executive Order 10450 which gave the heads of individual government agencies the responsibility for ridding their agencies of subversives and others whose employment is not "clearly consistent with the interests of national security." This decentralization proved a major change from the Truman program and, while it improved the watchfulness of administrators...
...told him, 'Carry out your agreements, and you won't get talked to like that.' " After two weeks, Harry Truman was clearly President in his own right...
...Francisco Conference approached and the war in Europe waned, Truman began to be more concerned with international affairs. The Nazi armies were disintegrating, and Winston Churchill telephoned from Britain to discuss a peace feeler that had reached him from Heinrich Himmler. On his way to San Francisco, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov called at the White House and got an unexpected dressing down from Harry Truman. Russia was not living up to its Yalta agreement on the composition of the Polish government, and Truman had some testy comments to make about the necessity for keeping obligations. " 'I have never...