Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...points out how ill equipped is the Bureau of the Budget to trouble-shoot for the President in disputes between differing Presidential agencies. Maass illustrates his point with liberal examples from his own field of conservation and resources planning. From Maass' analysis it seems that the Budget Bureau under Truman set a precedent for two growing practices in Washington today: postponement of embarrassing decisions, and such a fear of making mistakes as to hamper suggestion of new ideas...
...week's fast-stepping piece of partisan dialectic, Harry S. Truman, ex-President of the U.S., gave his successor in the White House an old-fashioned hickory-stick tanning. The speech, delivered in New York to the Roosevelt Day Dinner of the Americans for Democratic Action, turned out a long list of scorching criticisms of the Republican Administration...
Unlike some fellow Democrats, who have been fearing doom and depression, Harry Truman seemed willing to recognize the facts of U.S. prosperity. In fact, he chided the Administration for lacking the courage of its convictions: If the U.S. is more prosperous than ever, Truman said, the Administration should not say "that we are not prosperous enough . . . to increase the minimum wage...
Within the four boards, each member can find more specialized satisfactions. The news boards thrives on the variety in their work and on the uncertainty of what the next assignment will be, CRIMSON interviewers have probed the secrets of Harry S. Truman, Eartha Kitt, and Wondell H. Furry with studied impartiality. A week's work might find a CRIMSON reporter in a Court room, at a soccer game, or at the scene of an accident...
...nothing else, the desertion of the villages in Indo-China should remove any delusions in the State Department that military aid is a panacea in the fight against Communism. To return to the early days of the Truman Doctrine or the Marshall Plan when the U.S. seized the tactical offense in the cold war, however, would not be feasible. Such a shift would neglect the primacy of a military balance of power, necessary as the Soviet menace has increased. But the requirements for rifles and tanks should not obscure the advantages of economic and technical assistance...