Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Staffers sitting around the room whispered among themselves about "how Junior will do." Recalls one of them: "After two minutes we had forgotten we called him Junior. Everything seemed natural." It seemed natural because Nixon (unlike Harry Truman, who was not even told about the atomic bomb until he became President) has become, with Eisenhower's enthusiastic encouragement, steeped in knowledge of the U.S. strategic position and policy. His advice also carries as much weight as that of any of the men around Ike on such questions as internal security (including the McCarthy problem), labor policy, and general political...
Quick were newsmen to look at the record. The record: at a press conference on Aug. 5, 1948 (the. day Alger Hiss swore to the Un-American Activities Committee that he had never been a Communist), Truman was asked: "Mr. President, do you think the Capitol Hill spy hearings are a good thing, or do you think they are a red herring to divert attention from the anti-inflation program?" Mr. Truman's reply: the hearings are a red herring. Then & there he made an exception to the rule banning direct quotes from presidential press conferences. Said Mr. Truman...
Former President Truman, on a filmed television program with Columnist Drew Pearson last week, gave his version of the famed "red herring" crack about congressional spy hunts in 1948. Said Harry Truman: "The facts of the case are that, in a press conference one morning, some young man . . . asked me if the action of the House Un-American Activities Committee was not in the form of a red herring to cover up what the Republican Administration in the 80th Congress had not done, and I said it might...
...Louis Post-Dispatch's Dan Fitzpatrick or the Washington Post's "Herblock," Dowling gently spoofs with fine-line ink strokes and light caricature. A lifelong Republican. Cartoonist Dowling, who is syndicated in more than 100 papers, is guilty of one big heresy. "I really miss Harry Truman," says he. "When he was President, there was a three-ring circus in Washington." Dowling's heresy is understandable. Like all good cartoonists, whatever their political coloration, he is better off in opposition to the party in power. "The Republican Administration simply does not provide me with enough good cartoon...
Reason: he was listed in the FBI's 1945 warning to President Truman, and B.U. wanted a "restudy...