Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suite at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, old Truman aides gathered around. The old ghostwriters, headed by Washington Lawyer Charles Murphy, went to work on a speech. As the visitor rode down the street one day, he spotted an old friend. It took several honks of the horn to get the man's eye, and then ex-President Harry Truman said to ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson: "You're the hardest pickup I ever encountered...
Pocketbook Judgment? After a series of reunions, Truman boarded a train for Philadelphia. There, in his speech to the Reserve Officers Association, he took credit for some of the favorable developments in the world, e.g., the Communists are having trouble in East Germany largely "because of things that this nation did last year, or the year before, or four or five years ago." He came out hard against defense budget cuts: "I think that those who talk about our defense program being too big may be letting their pocketbooks obscure their judgment...
After this re-entry into the political arena, Harry Truman took a train to New York City to join Mrs. Truman and Margaret. He checked into suite 32-A in the Waldorf Towers, directly above Herbert Hoover's suite (31-A) and five floors directly below the suite (37-A) of Douglas MacArthur. He dropped down to the Waldorf barbershop to get a haircut, and let photographers snap him as he is rarely seen-without glasses...
...midst of Truman's New York stay, Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy announced that his Investigations Subcommittee may invite the ex-President to testify in a new investigation of alleged atom spies. Reporters hurried over to see what Truman had to say. Said Harry Truman : "What I could tell you, you wouldn't print-therefore ... no comment...
...Lyon lit the fuse himself. A craggy-faced individualist, he sat down before the Senate Interior Committee determined to tell the unvarnished truth. He had worked for the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. and its subsidiaries for 34 years. The Truman Administration had brought him to Washington in late 1951 as minerals chief in the Defense Materials Procurement Agency. Lyon added that he draws a $5,000-a-year pension from Anaconda and that the pension is revocable at the will of the company. At that bit of information, Senators' eyebrows shot up. Washington's Democratic Senator Henry...