Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intimidation Threatened. Last week the Democrats, willing to take such guilt by association no longer, rolled up their biggest gun to shoot down Pundit Kennan. The big gun: Dean Gooderham Acheson, 64, Harry Truman's Secretary of State (1949-52) and Kennan's old boss, who in 1949 signed the NATO Treaty. Said Acheson in a special statement to the American Council on Germany, Inc.: "These opinions are not now made by Mr. Kennan for the first time. They were expounded by him within the Democratic Administration early in 1949, and rejected. They are today contrary...
...Dulles for his support of local movements against French colonial rule in Indo-China, Tunisia and Morocco. Nor will India forgive him for calling Goa, an Indian-claimed Portuguese colony on the India mainland, "a Portuguese province." Israel remembers that U.S. policy was much more pro-Israel during the Truman Administration. Egypt's Nasser hates Dulles for calling Nasser's attempt to play off Russia against the West. And Arabs in general will not forgive him for defending Israel's right to exist...
...five predecessors, hanging in oil portraits on the pale blue walls. Set apart is the first Defense Secretary, tight-lipped James Forrestal, whose health was broken by the job. Frame by frame are jowly Louis Johnson, whose ham-handed economy, reducing the forces on the insistence of Harry Truman, left the U.S. almost totally unprepared for Korea; austere George Marshall, who had to work mightily to pick up Johnson's pieces; able Robert Abercrombie Lovett, who found that even-handed patience was not nearly enough for the Pentagon; and blunt Charles Erwin Wilson, whose experience remains most meaningful...
...tired, aging men talking about the gravely compromised half-measures which bind and separate America from its European allies." Among Democrats, Montana's Mike Mansfield wished the report "had spelled out the sacrifices the people will be required to make in the years ahead." Harry S. Truman, holidaying in Manhattan, snapped during an early-morning walk that he was "just about as thoroughly bored with Mr. Dulles as the President was." Truman also said that the television report had been "fixed up by BBDO"-which he defined as "bunko, bull, deceit and obfuscation...
...Harry Truman will declare, "Eisenhower is sick, sick, sick." The HYDC says "Those guys are crazy." Eisenhower has not been seen for three weeks. The Harvard Liberal Union will write a folk song commemorating the death of five executives of the Harvard Young Democratic Club. The Joint Chiefs of Staff will deny any inter-service difficulties as the Navy continues to send waves of Marines into the Pentagon via helicopters. Perry Miller gives Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. his harpoon and kayak as a going away present...