Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advantage of the worst Republican Vice President in years," blathers Frank Jeter Jr. in your Sept. 10 Letters column. As a college senior with a profound interest in political science, I want to know just precisely what Jeter Jr. believes is so completely nix about Nixon? Exclusive of Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower, I doubt if anyone in this entire nation knows more about the complex functions of the Federal Government than our young V.P. He has had more solid experience in the past four years, more grass-roots on-the-job training for the presidency than any other...
...Truman spoke last night to a capacity crowd of nearly 2000, made up principally of MIT and Harvard students and faculty in MIT's Auditorium. His talk was sponsored by the Law School Forum and the MIT Lecture Series...
Comparing the illness of Eisenhower last year with that of President Woodrow Wilson in 1919-1920, Truman said "the provisions of the Constitution governing the succession of the Vice-President are not spelled out in detail, and the illness or incapacity of a President can be more dangerous even than his death...
...There is only one way" to carry out the duties of the Presidency, Truman said, "and that is to keep everlastingly at them, and to give as much time to them as it is possible to squeeze out of every 24 hours." The former president attacked proposals to lighten the burdens of the post, stating that "if the President lets things drift, the country is in danger, for drifting is the easy road to disaster...
...discussion of the Presidency, Truman said the job is "really five or six jobs," and he proceeded to talk about each one, often breaking away from his prepared text to jab at the Republicans, to the obvious delight of the many partisans in the audience...