Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he was first elected to the Senate in 1948, he was a strong Truman supporter, and during the Eisenhower Administration just as strongly against Ike. But basically, his politics are neither right nor left but as bouncy as a pingpong ball. His heart pings mightily when it comes to preserving the 27½% oil depletion allowance, so dear to the pocketbooks of oilmen, and it ponged in support of the President's campaign to retain foreign aid to Poland and Yugoslavia. But he has crossed Jack Kennedy 6ften in recent months, and in fact, has voted pro-Kennedy...
Puerto Rico's nationalists may be few, but they mean to be obstreperous. Back in 1950, two of them tried to assassinate President Harry Truman at Blair House in Washington, and in the foray one nationalist and a Washington policeman were killed. At the same time, Nationalist Leader Pedro Albizú Campos led a revolt on the island itself that ended with 33 dead. Four years later, nationalists shot up the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five Congressmen. Harvard-educated Albizú Campos and his chief lieutenants are serving long jail terms, and their movement now seems in decline...
With the publication of this wistfully titled collection of literary and political essays, Gore Vidal must be acknowledged the nation's foremost boy of letters. The office is an honorable one, having been held previously by Truman Capote, Scott...
...Oklahoma, U.S. Senator from 1907 to 1937, and in 1960 he himself ran for Congress as a Democrat in a Republican upstate New York district). He observes that since F.D.R. set the fashion, all U.S. politicians must grin constantly in public; he recalls having a thoughtful conversation with Harry Truman at a public dinner, when suddenly, "though his tone did not change, his face jerked abruptly into a euphoric grin, all teeth showing. I thought he had gone mad, until I noticed photographers in the middle distance." An interview with Barry Goldwater is an excellent example of that 20th century...
Died. James Thomas Blair, 60, onetime Governor of Missouri (1956-60), a bourbon-drinking friend of Harry Truman, whose major campaign in office was to improve his state's mental health program by building more and better hospitals; and Emilie Chorn Blair, his wife. 58; both from accidental asphyxiation (carbon monoxide fumes sucked into the airconditioning system of their home from the garage where their Cadillac was parked, its engine running); in Jefferson City...