Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other Presidents have shown widely varying recreational' tastes. Lincoln, Wilson and Truman were walkers. Coolidge pitched hay, golfed and rode a mechanical horse that became something of a national joke. Hoover fished and tossed medicine balls with members of the Cabinet and the Supreme Court. Franklin Roosevelt and John Quincy Adams swam for their health. George Washington preferred riding. Jefferson detested all exercise, relaxed with his violin. Theodore Roosevelt, the most active President, was an enthusiastic wrestler, jujitsu expert, big-game hunter, tennist, horseman and boxer. One of his favorite forms of exercise was point-to-point hiking, which...
Covetous Designs? Riegelman's visit to the State Department highlighted an old flaw in U.S. foreign policy: any attempt to work out decisions for the critically strategic Middle East automatically becomes a hot issue of domestic politics. The Truman Administration zigzagged between the pleas of Pentagon strategists for the conciliation of Arab nations and the domestic pressures for strong support of Israel. When the chips were down, Harry Truman always yielded to political pressure. Generally, Eisenhower and Dulles have worked more consistently to restore Arab confidence...
...regulations, originally put into effect two years ago by Harry Truman, gave Government departments the right to classify information for security reasons, i.e., label it "top secret," "secret," etc. Newsmen complained that the order could easily be abused by bureaucrats with nothing to hide but their own mistakes. Last week Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty announced that there would be a new executive order on classified information. Under the new order, 29 Government departments, e.g., Veterans Administration, War Claims Commission, will be stripped of the right to classify information. Sixteen other departments, e.g., Civil Aeronautics Board, Subversive Activities Control Board...
...Hagerty found himself under fire. His attacker: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Washington Correspondent Raymond ("Pete") Brandt, who was still smarting over the Warren leak (TIME, Oct. 12). "The information order relates to the classification of documents," said Brandt, "[which] gave us very little trouble under the Truman Administration." Even if a document had been classified, he argued, newsmen had ready access to Government officials who would give the information they wanted. "The present Administration," said Brandt, "[seems] to be afraid of newspapermen; they don't trust them and they don't realize the position...
...both House and Senate and admitting hie would do some campaigning toward this goal. On Thursday, he completed the switch, declaring through his press secretary that he favored election of any Republican, at any time, any place. Remove the party labels, and this last idea smacks of former President Truman's much-criticized equation of good Republicans with dead Republicans...