Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaker McCormack sounds like a typical, mindless, party-hack Democrat with blind loyalty to party machinery, just like Harry Truman. It is fascinating to contemplate, isn't it, how different our situation might be if Truman's haberdashery shop in Kansas City hadn't folded, and if the Massachusetts legislature had been more prompt in passing the law requiring two years of high school for those admitted...
Major General Edwin A. Walker, commander of the Army's 24th Infantry Division in Germany, came under fire both for speeches and for his troop education program. He labeled Harry Truman, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and former Secretary of State Dean Acheson as "definitely pink." Walker's "pro-blue" educational program boosted conservative candidates for office back home and brought on charges that Walker was dabbling in partisan politics. After he was admonished and reassigned to another command in Hawaii, Walker resigned from the Army. He found a champion in South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, himself...
...Lausanne, she plays hostess to any of her favorite people who happen to be passing through: Truman Capote, Yul Brynner, David Niven, Noel Coward. At Lake Worth, the Guinnesses can usually count on people in the Kennedy orbit, including the fun-loving Kennedys themselves; at one party, held when Jacqueline Kennedy was in Florida recently, Gloria and Mrs. Kennedy had a high old time doing the Twist* on the tile floors by the patio. Says Gloria: "It's a gay, amusing life...
...early as 1933, when he opposed establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, he warned: "The Communists mean to see us destroyed." When he first urged containment in 1946, it was, for its day, a tough anti-Communist policy. Largely through its inspiration, the Truman Doctrine was launched (though he insists that containment was always intended as a peaceful-political, not a military policy); and it was Kennan who brought the Marshall Plan to reality. In time, containment came to seem passive and sterile. While others vainly sought a way of "rolling back" Red power, Kennan preached...
...whose vitriolic attacks on the Republican Party and sharp criticism of his own party's leadership kept him in a constant swirl of controversy; of a heart attack; in Washington. A party wheelhorse in Indiana and Stevenson backer before taking the national chairmanship over Harry Truman's bitter opposition, he provoked Southern Democrats with open criticism of their civil rights stand, attacked Lyndon Johnson and the late Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn for "moving too slowly toward a positive legislative program," had his last good scrap in 1960 when Truman accused him of trying...