Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Reconstruction, Harry Truman is something the Deep South never quite got over. Last week three South Carolina newspapers printed an interview with his old military aide, Harry Vaughan, which said that both Truman and Vaughan endorsed Senatorial Candidate Edgar Brown. Brown squirmed like a husband with the wrong shade of lipstick on his collar; his enemies could hardly suppress their glee...
Interviewed by a Washington correspondent for several Carolina papers, he unwound with an attack on old Dixiecrat Thurmond, called him in the "same class with Henry Wallace." Truman, said Vaughan, "can forgive small things like rape and murder, but he can't forgive a guy that goes back on his party." Why was Truman for Brown? Said Vaughan: "You'd be absolutely safe in saying the decision . . . was made 100% on party regularity." Even more damaging to Brown's chances was Vaughan's comment that "civil rights and nonsegregation are as inevitable as the tides...
...Vaughan earlier had made another denial. He said that Truman had not delivered his famed snub to Thurmond during the 1949 inaugural parade. According to Vaughan, just as Thurmond's car approached the presidential reviewing stand, "Tallulah Bankhead came out with a terrific 'Boo!'" Said Vaughan: "She was behind the dignified Supreme Court with their silk hats, and she just about blew their hats off ... That was why [Truman] turned his head when Strom was coming past." Asked for comment last week, Miss Bankhead drawled: "Who's Harry Vaughan...
Judge Youngdahl, 17 years a jurist, was Minnesota's three-time Republican governor when appointed to the U.S. District Court in 1951 by Harry Truman (in a neat political double play to behead Minnesota's Republican Party and help the state's Fair Dealing Senator Hubert Humphrey). In last week's hearing he was the sole judge of his own fitness. The next day, in an outraged memorandum, he judged himself fit, retained the Lattimore case, rebuked federal prosecutors for acting "irresponsibly and recklessly." Their purpose, he concluded, was "to discredit, in the public mind...
...will decide whether the enormous investigating enthusiasm of their federal legislators will be turned against Democrats or against Republicans over the next two years. The object over the past two years has been to manufacture Republican ammunition for this campaign out of the record of the Roosevelt-Truman era. The object during the next two years, if the Democrats win, will be to manufacture Democratic ammunition for 1956 out of the record of the first two Eisenhower years...