Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truth is that the Republican Party leadership has never hesitated to put politics first and America last . . . Eisenhower, Bricker, Dulles, Nixon-the whole lot of them-were shameless demagogues in 1952. They exploited the hardships and the losses of the Korean War as President Truman's private 'police action,' undertaken, by some strange quirk of logic, because Secretary Acheson was 'soft' on Communism . . . Then, as we all know, the Eisenhower Administration proceeded to make a peace in Korea on terms for which a Republican Congress would have undertaken the impeachment of Harry Truman...
...days after President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in April 1945, his successor telephoned Jesse Jones. The President, he said, had appointed John Snyder, a St. Louis banker, as Federal Loan administrator. Jones was surprised. "Did he make that appointment before he died?" he asked. "No," snapped President Harry S. Truman. "He made it just...
...Lonely Hours. The story is told on himself by the ex-President, in his memoirs, which begin in this week's LIFE. The first installment covers Truman's first 18 days in office-a period of historic decisions, wrenching personal adjustments, "unbelievable burdens," and flickering self-doubts for the jaunty little man from Independence, Mo. "The presidency of the U.S. carries with it a responsibility so personal as to be without parallel." writes Harry Truman. "To be President of the U.S. is to be lonely, very lonely at times of great decisions." In the hourglass of history, Harry...
...Truman hardly had time to absorb the impact of President Roosevelt's death and the immensity of his new job before he was called upon to make a big decision. Minutes after taking the oath of office -less than three hours after Roosevelt's death-he was preparing to hold his first Cabinet meeting, when Press Secretary Steve Early came into the Cabinet Room. "The press, he explained, wanted to know if the San Francisco Conference on the United Nations would meet, as had been planned, on April 25th. I did not hesitate a second. I told Early...
After Early left, Truman spoke to the Cabinet. "It was my intention, I said, to continue both the foreign and the domestic policies of the Roosevelt Administration. I made it clear, however, that I would be President in my own right, and that I would assume full responsibility for such decisions as had to be made." After the Cabinet meeting, Secretary of War Henry Stimson lingered behind. "[He] told me that he wanted me to know about an immense project that was under way -a project looking to the development of a new explosive of almost unbelievable destructive power. That...