Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crashes while trying desperately to keep up with Wilson's car. In 1921, state cops clocked Warren G. Harding's car at 38 m.p.h. as it zipped through Hyattsville, Md. The speed limit was 15 m.p.h., but no arrest was made. After he left office, Harry Truman was stopped for cutting in front of a patrol car on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. And Dwight Eisenhower used to be in such a hurry to get from Washington to his Gettysburg farm that reporters insisted they sometimes hit 100 m.p.h. on narrow Maryland highways trying to keep up. In 1957, vigilant...
...Organized labor has blown hot and cold on President Johnson during the course of his long political career. When he first came to Congress as a New Dealing Texas Democrat, labor's leaders loved him. But then, under the Truman Administration, he voted for the Taft-Hartley Act, and the unionists neither forgave nor forgot; in 1960 Johnson was the only major candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination who was opposed by Big Labor, and Walter Reuther protested volubly against Johnson's being named Kennedy's running mate. But by last week labor had come full circle...
Some of the winners: Stanley Vanderbeek, 32, is a tireless man with scissors. He cuts pictures out of magazines-all kinds of magazines-and stirs them into film clips in a kind of stiff puppet action that writes a curious chapter in the manual of animation. In Skulduggery, Harry Truman comes popping out of the mouth of a sumptuous girl; then a hammer comes out of her nose and knocks Harry back between her chops. Breath-Death shows Harpo Marx playing his harp on the edge of a smoking battlefield. Khrushchev appears, sneezes, and Hitler pops up and says Gesundheit...
...thanks the delegates. He praises Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He promises to do his best. He does not revile the Republicans, but he predicts victory at the same time that he hymns the glories of America...
Carried too far, such arguments could prove self-defeating: when Rossiter speculates that Hamilton's constitutional theory might have foreseen with approval such latter-day demonstrations of federal power as President Truman's seizure of the steel industry, the book begins to look like an attempt to capture Hamilton for modern big-Government liberalism. Fortunately...