Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Former President Harry S. Truman yesterday thanked the Young Democratic Club for its support following his recent controversy with Attorney-General Brownell over the Harry Dexter White cast...
...letter to Frederick J. Willman '56, president of the Young Democrats, Truman wrote, "It gives a man a lift when he is making a fight for the welfare of the whole country and the young people appreciate what he is trying to do." The Young Democrats had telegraphed Truman congratulations after his dramatic televised reply to Brownell's charges...
...matter of history by the next election. The issues, he thought, would be determined by what his Administration did to meet the needs of the country, and those needs included cleaning out the Government. When a reporter asked whether he thought his Administration had "embraced McCarthy-ism," as Harry Truman had charged, Eisenhower reddened, then said he was willing to take the judgment of the Washington press corps on whether Truman's statement was true (see PRESS...
...White case revival, Truman, Mitchell and many other Democratic leaders demonstrated that there was still an enormous gap between the parties on the issues involved. If that gap is still present in the fall of 1954, the Reds-in-Government issue will be a factor in the congressional elections. That is the way U.S. politics works. It works both ways. And, on the whole, it works well...
...brand-new. A few days before Truman spoke, some newspapermen (notably the New York Times's Arthur Krock) began writing stories reflecting Truman's defense that White was left in his job so that the FBI could watch...