Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press conference, President Eisenhower quietly set straight what was probably the most reckless blunder of the Stevenson campaign. The U.S. had indeed made a loan to Argentina, but it was for $130 million, not $100 million, said he. And it was made not by his Administration but by Truman's. Later in the week Secretary of State Foster Dulles underscored another pertinent point: Perón thrived in office all through the Truman Administration, fell from power during the Eisenhower Administration-which has propped up the new government with a total of $160 million in loans...
Nixon's speeches were increasingly filled with sharp thrusts at the opposition ("The American people aren't going to settle for any warmed-over Truman hash when they can have Eisenhower beef and potatoes") but in nearly all appearances he drew his greatest applause with his intense portrayal of Dwight Eisenhower as a national leader who has applied his personal standards of decency to the business of government...
...midst of his campaigning against Republican President Eisenhower, Democratic ex-President Harry S. Truman briefly switched from his give-'em-hell stance to his elder-statesman pose, announced: "The past President should be helpful to those who succeed...
When Harry Truman made this remark to a Boston audience nine days ago, he was being more than humble. Indeed, Truman was being painfully frank about a major political question--Can Truman help the Democratic party in the 1956 campaign...
...strongest answer comes from a large number of Democratic Party leaders, many of them top Stevenson advisers, who have long maintained that Truman should not even be given the opportunity to prove his worth to the party. In support of their position, they point to the 1952 defeat which they blame largely on Stevenson's association with the Truman record. If they had any doubts, Truman settled the matter last August when he said, "Stevenson is too defeatist to win." As if that were not enough, he added that Stevenson was allied with "Reactionaries." The topper came a few weeks...