Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert F. Kennedy '48 for the post. The Library Trustees were searching for a nationally known non-partisan figure. Black was favored because of his high national and international reputation as a banker and financier. He was a frequent advisor of President Kennedy as well as of Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, but always in a non-partisan capacity...
Under One Roof. Johnson also announced that responsibility for setting oil policies would revert to the Interior Department, where it lay during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations. Under Eisenhower and Kennedy, the responsibility had been divided among the Commerce Department, the Federal Power Commission, the Office of Emergency Planning and the White House itself. Now the complicated job of determining import quotas will be done under a single roof. Johnson's motives were partly political: as an oil-state politician, he wanted to avoid possible charges of favoritism. All the same, the result was hailed by the Independent Petroleum...
...assassination of such a young and vital man as John F. Kennedy tragically demonstrates the great vulnerability of the President of the United States. For the fourth time this century, a President has died or been killed while in office. Furthermore, both former Presidents Truman and Eisenhower have been threatened by possible fatal dangers: Truman by an assassination attempt, Eisenhower by a heart attack...
...second objection is that the Speaker is not a representative of the whole nation. In formulating the present succession law in 1947, President Truman recommended the substitution of the Speaker for the Secretary of State as second man in the line of succession because the Speaker is an elected official. But actually the Speaker, like any other Representative, is elected by only his own Congressional District, not the total electorate. And since a Congressman's term is only two years, a Speaker could still be serving as President after his term of office as granted by the voters had ended...
Adam Schweig, a member of "Advance," a youth organization which is being tried for alleged Communist-front actities under the Act, quoted President Truman's statement that the Act "puts the government in the thought-control business...