Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shanks, "We are inviting you as a major national figure representing one point of view, to share the same platform with the man who has done his utmost to deprecate your efforts and accomplishments through his won power and the power of those who follow his lead--Harry S. Truman...
Most observers think Brownell chose both the wrong place and the wrong words to open his accusations of laxity toward security risks by the Truman Administration. The same observers generally agree, however, that potentially dangerous laxity did exist...
Repercussions over the Chambers-Bentley testimony waxed hot. Politicians, spurred by patriotic fervor and desire for national notoriety, shouted of widespread Communist infiltration into key government policy posts. "Red herring!" countered President Truman and he dismissed the charges as cheap political attempts to discredit his Administration. But indications clearly pointed toward infiltration and systematic espionage, especially in the Executive Department...
Private Citizen Harry S. Truman's first reaction was: "I don't recall that such a thing happened. As soon as we found out that White was wrong, we fired him." When records showed White resigned (fifteen months after he took office), was not fired, Truman observed: "People are sometimes fired by being allowed to resign...
President Dwight D. Eisenhower quickly asserted that no one questioned the loyalty of the former President. Brownell hastily agreed with the Chief Executive. Congressman Harold Velde rushed to subpoena Truman but he tripped over his Committee's by-laws and popular resentment. Senator Joseph McCarthy tried to make himself to focal issue in the 1954 election but Eisenhower said he hoped the whole spies-in-government excitement would be a matter of history by the next election and that the GOP would run on its legislative program. Many claimed the President couldn't control his own lieutenants; other praised...