Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggested that permitting White to continue his espionage operations might enable the Truman Administration to entrap not only White but the whole Soviet espionage ring working within our Government. To accomplish such an end would require infinite and detailed care if the national interest was to be at all protected...
ARKANSAS' Democratic Senator John McClellan, cross-examining, again implied that Attorney General Brownell had accused Harry Truman of disloyalty...
...opinion, no. Mr. Truman is not a stupid man. He was blind on this score...
Timesmen reached only half of the reporters, and instead of Gallup-type "yes or no" questions, asked for opinions-which often turned out to be foggy. Nevertheless, concluded the Times survey: "The prevailing opinion . . . was that [Truman's] charge could not be sustained against [Eisenhower], but that it applied" to other parts of the Republican Administration. A representative answer: "I believe I would say that the President has not embraced 'McCarthyism' at all, personally. I do think that Brownell went so far in his accusation as to utilize, even if unwittingly, the McCarthy technique...
...last time Churchill saw Franklin Roosevelt was on board the U.S. cruiser Quincy, in the harbor of Alexandria, after the Yalta Conference. The President seemed "placid and frail," to have only a "slender contact with life." The first time Churchill met Harry Truman was at Potsdam, ten weeks after the V-E day which Roosevelt did not live to see. Truman impressed the British Prime Minister with his "gay, precise, sparkling manner and obvious power of decision...