Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman Administration took a series of steps which blanketed this expanded bureaucracy under civil-service protection against firing. It is one of Harry Truman's fondest boasts that he extended civil-service protection to more Government workers than any other President. When Truman left office, at least 95% of Government civilian employees had civil service or similar protection of tenure...
...employees: men who hold Government jobs of a confidential or policymaking nature.* Schedule A was originally established to give Government executives a freer hand in hiring and firing top assistants, and these essentially political employees did not possess the job security enjoyed by regular civil servants. In 1947, Harry Truman signed an order giving most of them the equivalent of civil-service protection. In April, Eisenhower partially undid Truman's work by ordering that top bureaucratic policymakers (about 800) be stripped of their job security. Last month, in a further return to the status quo ante Truman, Ike decreed...
These were the characteristics of the last years of Truman. They will also characterize the first years of Eisenhower unless he gets the civilian career service-and the Pentagon -under control...
...When Harry Truman announced that he would not be a candidate for President in 1952, many a politico guessed that he would be back in Washington again anyhow-perhaps as a U.S. Senator, or even as a Congressman from Missouri. At times, Truman himself acted as though he were genuinely attracted by the idea of spending his remaining years as a member of the "greatest legislative body in the world," and he consistently refused to deny that he might re-enter political life. Last week, on his way home from New York City, after five months of savoring the joys...
...Treasury faced as tough a financing problem as confronted Secretary George M. Humphrey last week. Actual payouts for defense goods hit their peak at a time when the deficit for the fiscal year just ended reached $9.3 billion. This was $3.4 billion higher than Harry Truman's January estimate, and more than double last year's deficit. To meet the cash requirements of the next three months, Humphrey had to raise $6 billion-in a soft Government securities market (TIME...