Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regardless of who won the 1952 election, the nation's loyalty and security programs were ripe for a thoroughgoing revision by the end of the Truman Administration. Disorganized and handcuffed by continuing Congressional investigations, hiring procedures were uneven and inadequate to protect the national security...
Most surprised of all was TIME's White House Correspondent John L. Steele, for the boy was his nine-year-old son Larry (John L. Jr.). Larry, tagging after his father, has been looking at Presidents for years. As a wide-eyed infant he watched Harry Truman's triumphal return to Washington after his 1948 election victory, and got so excited he dropped a toy from the balcony of the Senate Office Building almost into Truman's lap. But last week was the first time he ever talked to a President...
...speech stated "only half the facts." "When [the President] pointed with satisfaction to 'the free nation of Viet Nam' he left out the fact that half of that nation . . . has been lost to the Communists. When he talked of defending Formosa . . . he must have forgotten that . . . President Truman [first] sent the Seventh Fleet to defend Formosa . . . [His] passing reference to Suez gave no hint of the awesome fact that within the past few months, Russia has gained the foothold in the Middle East she has sought for centuries...
Communism in Government. "As I have repeatedly said, I have never doubted the verdict of the jury which convicted [Alger Hiss]. If [that] places me in disagreement with what President Truman says (TIME, Sept. 17), that is where the record must rest." Once he had delivered this carefully prepared statement at a Washington press conference, Stevenson refused to answer another question as to whether he actually believed Hiss a traitor...
...Truman's talk provoked more than thirty "That's trues," which is more than Furcolo received. At the speech's close I asked my friend how the election would...