Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twelve years ago, the CRIMSON first predicted that Harry S Truman would garner an honorary LL.D. at Commencement. It has come up with similar predictions in other years, but the former President has still to be decorated by the Harvard Corporation...
There is a fairly extensive history of presidential-library fund-raising efforts. Friends of Franklin D. Roosevelt got off a memo to Agriculture Department employees suggesting that they contribute to the Hyde Park Library, then did some fast backpedaling when the press caught wind of it. Harry Truman's campaigners solicited top businessmen, pointing out that all contributions were, of course, taxdeductible. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Adlai Stevenson took to nationwide television to ask donations for Dwight Eisenhower's library in Abilene, Kans...
...Truman and Eisenhower Administrations to divorce it from Western Electric, and not much is heard about that any more. A virtual monopoly almost since it was founded in 1877, the Bell System has preserved its special status by arguing that it is much more efficient and economical than a lot of little, local phone companies would be. It has agreed not to invade the territory of the 2,645 independent companies that control the remaining 17% of the phone business. Largest of the independents by far is General Telephone & Electronics Corp., which has 5,000,000 phones as well...
When he's happiest is when he's snorting, and he did plenty of it. But in his 80th birthday week, Harry Truman was all choked up between potshots at the press, the Republicans, and everyone else within BB range. President Johnson telephoned Kansas City with early congratulations. "I wanted to call collect," ho-hoed L.B.J., who then added: "When you blow out those candles, I hope you think of all the lights you have turned on during 80 years." But the biggest thrill came during a birthday appearance on the Senate floor. After eulogies from no fewer...
Eight and five were the magic numbers. 85 years of life, 58 years of marriage, and James F. Byrnes marked off both mileposts a day early. The former Secretary of State under Truman obligingly posed with a pair of cakes. "This is a great world in which to live so long," he said. And a young reporter asked what his outstanding experience had been. Byrnes smiled, thought back over his 40-odd years of public service and said simply: "Son, I hope you get to be 85 and somebody asks you that question...