Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist enemy. Massachusetts' John Kennedy, stumping for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, blamed Dulles for having been caught in Quemoy and Matsu, implying that the U.S. should somehow have found a way to slip the islands out from under the Nationalists on the sly. Notably, leading Democrats Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson voiced no public criticism. But cartoonists, columnists, TV commentators and editorialists were badgering Dulles with a unanimity that he has seldom encountered at a time of national crisis. And the U.S. public, as it floated pleasantly out of recession and into the football season, seemed perilously bored...
...Harry Truman's international-development adviser (1950-51), wrote the basic proposal ("Partners in Progress") for the Truman Administration's Point Four Program...
...Roosevelt. After a series of Washington jobs in the NRA '305, Harriman spent 1941 to 1943 in London and Moscow as F.D.R.'s special-missions contact and Lend-Lease expediter, was Ambassador to Russia (1943-46), then to the Court of St. James's (1946), and Truman's Secretary of Commerce in the same year. Two years later, he was Marshall Plan ambassador in Europe, then Special Assistant to the President (1950-51), director of Mutual Security (1951-53), early predicted the onrush of Russian and Chinese imperialism...
Gingrich likes works by Thomas Wolfe, Gian Carlo Menotti, Paddy Chayefsky, William Inge, Truman Capote. Says he: "Brains wear better than beauty...
...from India to China-he came home to head a reform slate to clean up Phoenix's city government. He earned such public acclaim for doing just that-and cutting taxes to boot-that in 1952 he felt sassy enough to tackle Democratic Senator Ernest W. McFarland, Harry Truman's majority leader. Homespun Ernie scarcely deigned to notice this lively upstart. But in the Eisenhower landslide, Goldwater squeaked in by 7,000 votes...