Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to the Farm. Pennsylvania's Leader was substituting for Harry Truman (who said he had been ordered by his doctor to withdraw from his scheduled appearance). But at times it seemed that Leader had merely picked up "Give-'Em-Hell Harry's" script...
Last week's theater of Democratic politics had a familiar look. In one act was Adlai Stevenson, with another skilled, polished performance. In another was Harry S. Truman, the 71-year-old trouper, still giving 'em hell...
Drowned Out. The press play was less than expected. As had happened before, Stevenson's carefully cadenced sentences could hardly be heard against the din of Harry Truman...
...Detroit for a Labor Day speech, Truman was in mid-campaign form. The Democratic nominee in 1956, cried Truman, will "not be the kind of man who will give you a big smile and some nice promises in the political campaign and then turn you over to your enemies for the next four years . . . You are-we all are-confronted with the opposition or indifference of an Administration dominated by big business, an Administration concerned more with dollars than with people...
...prospect of the A.F.L. C.I.O. merger, said Truman, is "scaring the daylights out of the Republicans," and there is evidence that "Republican politicians are getting ready to play pretty rough next year." Then he looked up from his text and added: "If the Democratic Party invites me into the campaign, they'll get all the 'rough' they want...