Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vice President Nixon is truly the old hellcat when he says [Oct. 13]: "The only way we could get the crooks out of the Truman Administration was to put them in jail." What are Goldfine and Adams doing running around loose...
Pointing to the U.S.'s bright economic future, President Harry Truman used to talk headily of a $440 billion gross national product by 1960, but the U.S. economy's actual growth under Truman's successor has made that rosy forecast seem downright conservative. Last week, in a frankly political speech to a Republican rally in Chicago, President Dwight Eisenhower brandished some economic facts that might turn out to be bigger bipartisan news to the people of the U.S. than all the week's campaign speeches put together. In the third quarter of 1958, said Ike, gross...
...Harlem last week, New York's Governor Averell Harriman was banking on Harry Truman in a desperate effort to get back some of the votes Harriman knew Orval Faubus was costing him. If Truman had been President, said Ave to the Harlem audience, he would have sent the paratroops to Little Rock in 24 hours rather than waiting three weeks as Republican Eisenhower did. "Is that right, Mr. President?" demanded Ave in one of those of-course lines. But Truman threw away the script, ducked behind the claim that he "wouldn't have had all this trouble." Said...
...same, Harry Truman had a chilly warning to give, based on his 1948 lesson to the Republican Party that straw polls and cocksureness can upset any campaign. "I find only one thing wrong with Democrats today," he said. "They are suffering from Deweyitis, which is the worst disease in the world. You mustn't decide the election is won because the Democratic curve is going up. We've got to keep fighting until the polls are closed...
...Still agile later that same day, Truman kidnaped two historical figures to add to the 13 Democratic Presidents whose pictures he hung at a new party clubroom: John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), over the protest of Adams' great-great-grandson that his forebear was a Republican precursor, and Andrew Johnson (1808-75), who was a War Democrat when he became Abraham Lincoln's Vice President. Discoursing further on his reading of history, Harry scaled down every U.S. schoolboy's image of the man who said, "Give me liberty or give me death!": "There...