Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back Ike! After warning that Republicans should "run scared," Nixon had some other strategy tips. When an opponent criticizes Dwight Eisenhower's golf playing, there is a ready answer: "If the President spent as much time playing golf as Truman spent playing poker, the President could beat Ben Hogan." Stay out of debates, but if they are unavoidable, there are some handy techniques. "If he asks you where you stand on Dulles, ask him where he stands on Acheson. If he asks you how you stand on the McCarthy issue, make him say where he stands on Mitchell...
Authors Rorty (journalist and self-labeled Taft Republican) and Decter (former political editor for the Voice of America and self-labeled Stevenson Democrat) begin with the sound premise that in the Roosevelt and early Truman Administrations, a number of Communists and fellow travelers slipped into the Federal Government. This fact, Rorty and Decter point out, gave McCarthy a solid runway for his take-off as a Communist fighter in 1950. They grant that the furor caused by McCarthy did help to bring needed attention to the problem of Communist infiltration. But at about that point, the credit side of their...
...campaign fund, and 3) still others who think that F.D.R. Jr. is a brash young man running on nothing but his father's name. Through the Washington pipeline came private word that "Honest Ave" had the quiet support of the country's two biggest Democrats: Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson...
...point reply. Selvage's material, said Bodine, was a collection of "false statements, distortions and misrepresentations." Example: Selvage said Case "voted to kill the Taft-Hartley Act." Bodine pointed out that, in fact, Case voted for the Taft-Hartley Act, against recommittal, and for its passage over Harry Truman's veto...
...demanded a breakoff in diplomatic relations with Russia in 1949, demanded full U.S. recognition of Franco Spain the same year, befriended Korea's Syngman Rhee and warned, in 1947, of the dangers of a divided Korea. In 1952 he introduced a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Truman because he thought Truman had overstepped his bounds in seizing the steel mills...