Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waste of time to try to judge this message by how closely it conforms to the Roosevelt and Truman policies, or how far it departs from them. Eisenhower is not trying to expunge the New Deal, or to project it. He is taking off from the facts of life as they are in the U.S., A.D. 1954, and going on from there to outline, in a new tone of confidence, a new course...
...Cover) Reminiscing last week about the job that took him to the White House. Harry Truman told a piece of personal history in homely barnyard simile: "I tried to argue with those fellows at Chicago [in 1944] that I didn't want to be Vice Pres ident. I told them, 'Look at all the Vice Presidents in history. Where are they? They were about as useful as a cow's fifth teat.'" When he first said it, Harry Truman was roughly right; but today, any generalization about the uselessness of Vice Presi dents falls over...
Commenting on Attorney General Brownell's Chicago speech, Sen. Sparkman is reported to have accused Brownell of treating Truman "like a common chicken thief...
...future was a compromise attitude. It reflected Eisenhower's desire to consolidate Western strength and was, I feel, entirely justified considering France's delaying tactics on EDC and a European federation. America, the world's strongest nation, has been rejecting its responsibilities as a strong and decisive world leader. Truman failed to grasp the meaning of world leadership. Truman's foreign policy, once it recognized the Russian threat, is not all black nor all white on his matter, but Europeans strongly opposed to Communism characterized the world situation like this: Russia is weak and unafraid; America is strong and afraid...
...recognized America's position of leadership by supporting Dulles' statement to France and by issuing a threat to Red China warning that if China should resume hostilities in Korea, America would not limit the conflict to Korea. This is not a weak President speaking, nor one following the Truman policy...