Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twice daily, Ike will report G.O.P. goings on from a special studio down the hall from his hotel suite. The whole slightly astonishing deal was, of course, swung with the help of ABC Vice President James Hagerty, Ike's former press secretary. An effort to line up Harry Truman for the Democratic Convention brought out the Missouri mule. The role of political commentator, said H.S.T., "is an unsuitable one for a former President...
Presidents, and neither the eloquence of Franklin Roosevelt, the bluntness of Harry Truman, the camaraderie of Dwight Eisenhower nor the crisp rationalism of John Kennedy had much effect. Will a Texas drawl succeed where so many others failed...
Hint of Violence. Forrestal soon reached an impasse. He thought Truman's military budget too skimpy to stop Communist aggression (the Korean war proved him right). He did his best to slice up the budget among the services, but the service secretaries sabotaged his efforts by going over his head to Congress and the press. Better-read than any other Cabinet member and able to quote from Bagehot, Marx and Kant, Forrestal irritated Truman by constantly giving him advice and recommending appointments. "He was a Cabinet Francis Bacon who took the whole political world for his province," writes Rogow...
...putting Forrestal on the Democratic ticket. Forrestal had both political ambitions and political glamour. "He has the bearing given to goodhearted gangsters in the movies," Jonathan Daniels wrote. "There is the suggestion of the possibility of violence and the surface of perfectly contained restraint." But Forrestal was convinced Truman would lose in 1948; he stayed out of politics and refused to campaign for the party. In fact, he met a few times with Dewey, giving rise to the rumor that he was making a deal with the Republicans to stay on as Defense Secretary. Three months after Truman was inaugurated...
...essential toughness but essential weakness." Rogow lists some of the troubles that he thinks eventually crippled Forrestal: his "early psychic deprivation"; his tightly repressed emotions; his compulsive working habits and compulsive play. He suggests that Forrestal, whose feelings toward his father were ambivalent, later transferred these feelings to Harry Truman. Rogow even goes on to suggest what is now fashionable in psychoanalytical and sociological circles: that the cold war is a product of inner anxieties and that Forrestal's own anxieties-his need to show he was tough-contributed...