Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even before Under Secretary of Agriculture Charles Murphy had a chance to speak for himself, six Democratic Senators, like so many John Aldens, leaped up to defend him. Oregon's Wayne Morse went so far as to solicit an opinion from Harry Truman. Said Morse: "Mr. Truman authorized me to say on the floor of the Senate this afternoon that he knows Charles Murphy to be an honest man through and through." Murphy could only be grateful for such testimonials. Throughout nine weeks of hearings by a Senate subcommittee, past and present Agriculture Department underlings had fingered...
...This tree behind me," he said, "was planted by Andrew Jackson. The balcony was built by Harry Truman, and that tree over there was planted by John Adams; so I think that just visiting this historic house and these grounds does bring you in more intimate contact with American history...
Back home and full of bounce after a five-week tour of Western Europe was Dwight Eisenhower, 71; bouncing back nicely in a Manhattan hospital after an operation to remove a polypoid lesion from his large intestine was Herbert Hoover, 88; perennially bouncy Harry Truman, 78, was gadding about Manhattan...
...this historic shot taken while there's still time," he said. Noting the letter, Alan Richards, a Princeton, N.J., freelance photographer, dug through his files and came up with just such a rare shot, taken at Princeton University's 200th anniversary celebration in 1947. "Truman was still Ike's boss at the time," recalls Richards, "but I told him when I snapped the picture that he might well have a Republican on his right as well as his left." ··· Stoically stowing away an on-the-run diet of rice trimmed with goat intestines, chicken...
...Singer-Composer Gene Austin, 62, campaigns by playing on the piano the song he helped make popular in the 19205-My Blue Heaven. He has asked Harry Truman to join him in a political duet (no answer), declares that he "can do all the things the present Governor is doing and sing too." A proven musician (he wrote The Lonesome Road, When My Sugar Walks Down the Street, How Come You Do Me Like You Do?), he hopes to become a smash political hit with a platform plugging $100-a-month pensions for every Nevada resident over...