Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (Paramount). Holly Golightly, as Truman Capote described her in his peekaresque short story, was a sort of sophisticated migratory worker. She traveled from nightspot to nightspot, giving pleasure where she pleased, digging gold where she found it. Pleasure and pay never stood in a direct relation, but when Holly asked for powder-room money, she generally...
...withdrawal of candidacy, is about as old as politics itself. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln's aides promised Political Boss Simon Cameron a place as Secretary of War in return for the Republican convention backing of Cameron's key Pennsylvania delegation. In 1951, President Harry Truman appointed Minnesota Republican Luther Youngdahl to a federal district judgeship (a position he still holds) to remove Youngdahl from an impending contest with Democrat Hubert Humphrey for the U.S. Senate...
...Speaker, Rayburn reached the pinnacle of his ambition. He might have become President-Franklin Roosevelt offered him the vice-presidential nomination in 1944, and gave it to Harry Truman when Rayburn rejected it. "I'd rather be Speaker than any ten Senators," he sometimes said. "I love the House." It was a love that stretched back to early boyhood. As a suntanned youngster in Bonham, Texas, he peeped under the flap of a fairground tent and, with thumping heart, listened to the thunderations of Joe Bailey, a hell-for-leather Congressman. That did it. Later, Sam confided his ambitions...
Actually, the President's program contained little that had not been suggested before by Harry Truman or Dwight Eisenhower-and it offered nothing that seemed likely to lure the Russians from previous stands against disarmament inspections. Despite Kennedy's promise to resume discussions of any one step toward disarmament whenever agreement seemed in sight, the U.S. plan is basically a step-by-step approach requiring international inspection to ensure that each stage has been carried...
...Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "USO-Wherever They Go!" is a tribute to the United Service Organizations on its 20th anniversary, with President Kennedy and former Presidents Eisenhower and Truman participating. Stars in the wartime and contemporary film clips include Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Lena Home, Danny Kaye, Marilyn Monroe, Debbie Reynolds and Danny Thomas...