Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...didn't call any plays of his own. He endorsed all Republicans, including Senator McCarthy; he decided it was wise not to speak up in General Marshall's defense; he called TVA a form of "Creeping socialism;" he came to an entente cordiale with Senator Taft; he accused the Truman Administration of harboring those three villains, Corruption, Communism, and Controls; and he promised, dramatically, to "go to Korea" and get this country out of its mess...
When will TIME accept-even grudgingly-the fact that Harry Truman is no longer a candidate for the presidency? Harry and his "rascals" were evicted several years ago. According to TIME'S quaint type of thought...
...military commander he personally had put integration into effect even over the objection of some of his generals ("General Patton, who at first was very much against this, became the most rabid supporter of the idea"); then, as President, he had finished the job begun under the Truman Administration...
...There are no burning issues: Truman, McCarthy, time for a change, mink coats, depression, boys in foxholes and Alger Hiss lie muted beneath the surface. The Eisenhower health issue has been knocked out by Ike's robust appearance, and the Nixon issue is undermined by Nixon's own high-level campaigning. There are, however, some intense regional issues, e.g., the farm program in the Midwest, local unemployment problems in such states as Indiana and Michigan, segregation in the South...
This week, midway through a six-week survey syndicated daily in 83 newspapers, Lubell offered an interim forecast based on his findings among what he calls the key voters-those who supported Harry Truman in 1948 and switched to Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. He estimated that "roughly half" of these voters would go for Eisenhower again. "If the proportion holds until Election Day," he said, "it would give the President around 52% of the popular vote, even if all the voters who now say they are 'undecided' were to swing to Adlai Stevenson...