Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months. Stevenson has been jaunting around the world, keeping in touch with national headquarters only through hastily squiggled notes on postcards, e.g., a card showing a Malayan sitting on an elephant's head, with the notation that this man "rides the elephant much better than Ike does." Harry Truman, on the eve of a nostalgic visit to Washington, is lodged in a quiet limbo between politician and elder statesman, exerting no party leadership. His latest newsworthy act was to let traveling members of the Oklahoma Junior Chamber of Commerce make him an honorary Indian chief in Kansas City...
...House in 1954 (a net gain of five seats will do it). They do not think they can win control of the Senate, but only because too many doubtful seats now held by Democrats will be on the block. No one is saying just what roles Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson will play in the 1954 campaigns. Said Truman recently: "If it will help for me to stay at home, I'd just as soon stay at home...
...following day, Morse got word of the grumbling in the grain belt. Mindful that President Truman had blamed the G.O.P. in 1948 for lack of storage facilities, Morse hastily "clarified" his staement. The Government, he said, has no intention of getting 'out of the storage business right away, may even buy more bins to handle this year's wheat and corn urpluses. He pointed out that it would be "good business" for the farmer to build more storage capacity, so that he could have the grain on hand and ready to market if the price went up. Furthermore...
...Advisers was sent to Congress last week by the President. The work of scholarly Economics Professor Arthur F. Burns, who will head the new council, the plan will re-establish CEA as the President's top economic advisory group. Like the old CEA, first set up under Harry Truman's Administration, the new three-man board will keep an eye on U.S. economic changes, advise the President on what to do about them, help him prepare his economic reports to the nation. But there the comparison ends...
Congress parted with the money with great reluctance, mostly because Truman's councilmen had made few friends on Capitol Hill. Under Truman, the three CEA members all had equal standing. Thus the council was often split and public squabbles were common. It became less of an advisory board and more of an apologist for the Administration's economic policies. There seems to be little chance of similar trouble under Burns. Said he: "My inclination would be to stay out of the limelight, make my recommendations to the President, indicate the basis for [them], and then, having done that...