Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Truman fussed about what was to be said. Bess Truman fussed about what was to be seen. But daughter Margaret prevailed. Last week, with Ed Murrow covering the British elections, Margaret Truman took over his CBS-TV Person to Person show in Manhattan, and from that distance visited her parents and her home in Independence...
...transmitting tower had to be raised in the Truman backyard. Miles of wire were strung into and around the twelve-room, 89-year-old house, and a small army of CBS technicians scurried about in its hallways. Four TV cameras were rolled into the building. The principals were wired for sound. By that time the stage was set for an intimate and relaxed family visit that only a few tens of millions of people were expected to watch...
...assignment was not an easy one, even for a former U.S. President and his wife. Although Mr. and Mrs. Truman failed to display the easy, unaffected stage presence of their daughter until well on in the half hour, the Truman family, on the whole, brought the show off in folksy fashion. Margaret was charming and her parents were dignified on one of Person to Person's best shows...
...Trumans showed off the living quarters of their comfortable home, oil portraits of the three members of the family and a painting by Sir Winston Churchill, presented to Harry Truman as a gift. The former President also sat down at Margaret's piano, wondering if it was in tune (it did not sound as if it was), and played the waltz he had taught her when she was first learning to play the piano. Then, as an encore, he played Paderewski's Minuet...
Most of the talk was natural and easygoing, and Interviewer Margaret had the situation under control all the way. At one point, when Bess Truman was walking from one room to another and murmuring under her breath, Margaret said firmly, "No kibitzing, Mother. No kibitzing. No kibitzing." Bess Truman stopped murmuring. Toward the end of the show Margaret asked what advice her parents had about raising children. Said Harry Truman: "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them...