Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three hustled off to jail were Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda and Andres Figueroa Cordero−all members of the terrorist Nationalist party of Puerto Rico, the same group that made the attempt to storm Blair House and assassinate Harry Truman in 1950. A fourth member of the gang was picked up at a bus terminal. The four had left New York that morning, buying one-way railroad tickets in the expectation that they would lose their lives. In the woman's handbag, police found a penciled suicide note. "Before God, and the world," it said, "my blood claims...
...said again and again that he does not want to dictate to Congress. He thinks it should regain its proper place in U.S. political life after the years in which F.D.R. used Congress as a rubber stamp and the years of bitter deadlock be tween Capitol Hill and Harry Truman...
...broke with Eisenhower when Harvard's James Conant was appointed High Commissioner to Germany and the rift has been widening ever since. Harry Truman, who knows how to use a thumb himself, introduced "McCarthyism" into the Harry Dexter White case, and Joe made the speech in which he tried to set himself up as the issue in the 1954 congressional elections, an issue which Eisenhower has emphatically said he does not want. Eisenhower & Co. have failed to make McCarthy fade away, and that failure is going to hurt in the fall of 1954 if it has not been corrected...
...McCarthy launched one of the most spectacular political voyages in U.S. history. He charged often, proved seldom, never named his 205; in fact, he insisted he had said 57. But, because he had a sensitive issue, he became a big man. His bitterest foes were his best friends; Truman & Co. inflated his sails by exaggerating his importance...
November 1, 1950: Collazo and Torresola attempt assassination on President Truman. Torresola and White House guard killed...