Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Former President Truman has still not indicated to the Law School Forum whether or not he will accept its invitation to debate the issue of Communism with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, Hershel Shanks, 1L, coordinator of the proposed forum, said last night...
...McCarthy said Thursday that he would be willing to accept the bid, provided Truman did the same. Shanks said, however, that although McCarthy had signified his acceptance in Washington, he has not sent official word to the Forum...
...Truman accepts the bid, he would break the historical precedent he himself followed in the Harry Dexter White affair. Former Presidents in the past have refused to submit their administrations to questioning, believing it an infringement of the independence granted the Executive in the Constitution...
Robert Braucher, professor of Law, denounces Truman's "funny trails" which came in with the loyalty boards set up by Executive Order in the spring of 1947. No witnesses appeared; the suspected security or loyalty risk was confronted with anonymous charges and asked to answer them, Braucher explains. "The kangaroo courts were an evil development of Truman's tightening-up process...
...thinks the GOP will try to parlay its attacks on Truman into long range political cannon-fodder. "In tennis they say when you find an opponent with a wooden leg you force him from side to side, forward and back. You want to tire him. In politics you do much the same thing. The Democrats for twenty years thought they had a man with a wooden leg in Herbert Hoover. Now the Republicans have found their man with a wooden leg: Harry Truman...