Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many of us were not through being wrong. In the post-war era we underestimated the threat of World Communism. Many of us supported Henry Wallace, the intellectual, against the small-time politician, Harry Truman. But the politician, a self-educated ex-storekeeper, know better than we. He understood the threat of the Soviet Union, moved decisively to arm and strengthen Western Europe. Again, how fortunate for civilization that no one listened to us, as our ranks grow smaller...
...Vote Canadian." His Cabinet splintered, his campaign coffers badly depleted, his candidacy denounced by three of the country's four leading Conservative newspapers, Diefenbaker made what he could of his underdog role. Playing it all the way, he compared himself to Harry Truman, giving 'em hell in 1948. "Let 'em have it, John," sang out his loyal Conservative supporters. But Diefenbaker did not have much ammunition. Lacking real issues, he turned his prairie-evangelist oratory on Liberal Party "obstructionism," cried that the Liberals had sabotaged his parliamentary program-which, in fact, the dillydallying Diefenbaker government never actually...
...Diefenbaker played Truman, Liberal Party Leader Lester Pearson sounded discouragingly like Adlai Stevenson in his off moments. A onetime university professor, Canadian External Affairs Secretary, and 1957 Nobel Peace prizewinner for his work on the Korea and Suez crises at the U.N., Pearson is respected at home and abroad. But he is hardly the knock-'em-dead campaign politician. He seemed out of place before large rallies, despite a talent for the bright line and the quick quip. When Diefenbaker grandly announced that he would not debate against his competitors on TV because "I have no competitors," Pearson found...
...accepted the Milestone Award of the Screen Producers' Guild. It was only the second time (the first: to Bob Hope in 1962) that the Guild's award for outstanding movie achievement had been presented to someone other than a producer. President Kennedy, ex-Presidents Eisenhower and Truman telegraphed their congratulations. And then, "with great pride," surrounded by a boodle of filmdom's most glittering stars, the old tunesmith clogged every throat when he hopped to the piano to God Bless America, as only Irving...
...Krock of course knows, Ike blamed many of his troubles on Truman policies, and defended his nonaction in certain foreign situations in the name of peace. Truman, for his part, blamed many of his troubles on poor old Herbert Hoover...