Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Familiar Issue. This principle has long been a highly practical limitation on the activities of congressional committees. Many Presidents, from Washington to Truman, have vigorously asserted it, and Eisenhower's Administration continues to maintain that the Congress has no right to read all executive-branch papers, or learn about all executive-branch conversations...
Asked what U. S. policy should be in Indochina, the general, who in 1947 made a special survey of the Far East for President Truman, said that his immediate solution of the problem would be for this country, France, and the United Nations all to promise Indochina her independence. "That would put the natives on our side and refute the Communist propaganda," he asserted...
...Truman spoke of the importance of Presidents. "The pages of history," he said, "unfolded powers in the presidency not explicitly found in Article...
Constitution." In developing this theme, Truman gave his successor some pointed advice. "Out of ... the political arena, a new and different President emerged-the man who led a political party to victory and retained in his hands the power of party leadership. That is, he retained it, like the sword Excalibur, if he could wrest it from the block and wield it." Presidential words carry great weight, said the ex-President, but they must be backed up by action: "Today there is the same need for a combination of words and action concerning the hysteria about Communism...
Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote tell a completely wacky shaggy-dog story; with Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre (TIME, March...