Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appears that Nixon doesn't know which are the best roads to a peaceful solution of our problem. So he turns toward Europe, fritters away time making peace with Truman instead of our Asian "foes," and toys with the idea of what kind of an ABM system we should have...
...Council--which will be similar to the Hoover Commission appointed by President Truman--will undertake a thorough review of the organization of the executive branch and present recommendations for improving government effectiveness...
AFTERWORDS: NOVELISTS ON THEIR NOVELS, edited by Thomas McCormack. The anxiety, excitement and loneliness of confronting blank sheets of paper, sharply recalled and brightly written by 14 novelists, including Norman Mailer, Truman Capote and Louis Auchincloss...
...accomplishments in his life: he was the man who convinced President Dwight Eisenhower to take up painting, and he himself painted the last portrait from life of Sir Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. Other Stephens portraits now hang in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, in the Harry S Truman Library in Independence, Mo., and in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library at Abilene, Kansas. This is Dwight Eisenhower's 17th appearance on a TIME cover...
...mentor's "patriotism and statesmanship beyond party." Ike had at least lived to see his Republican protege in the White House, a long-held dream. Lyndon Johnson, who, while in office, consulted Eisenhower frequently, paid tribute to "this good man and noble leader." Once a bitterly outspoken foe, Harry Truman, now 84, remembered that before the two men were political opponents, they were "comrades in arms. And I cannot forget his services to his country and to Western civilization." Many others, like Truman, chose to remember Eisenhower not as the 34th President, whose stewardship may long be disputed...