Word: trumanism
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Reviewing Crises. For advice on Berlin, John Kennedy was relying primarily upon Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Truman. Working out of his Washington law office, Acheson has carefully reviewed every report on past Berlin crises, examined every possible way the Soviets or their East German satellites could put pressure on the city. Last week, before the National Security Council, he made his still-secret report. Acheson is convinced that a surrender in Berlin means the surrender of Europe, believes that Khrushchev really does doubt the U.S. will use its nuclear deterrent. Thus, the U.S. must...
...words of all came last week from a man with all the credentials for being a White House insider. Hans J. Morgenthau* is director of the University of Chicago Center for the study of American Foreign and Military Policy and a onetime (1949-51) State Department adviser in the Truman Administration. Wrote he in the liberal New Leader...
...Cross Blood Bank, federal aid to medical schools ("a backdoor route" to socialized medicine), federal aid to states to reduce infant and maternal death rates, disability payments under social security. All are now in effect. But in the greatest of all contests, the 1949-51 battle over the Truman-Ewing national health insurance plan, A.M.A. scored a smashing win. Through the 19403, opinion polls had shown that a majority of the U.S. electorate-74% in a FORTUNE poll-favored such a plan. Ewing's idea was to levy a 4% payroll tax (to yield $4.5 billion...
...likely turn to his squad of White House professors and kibitzers, principally to Arthur Schlesinger and McGeorge Bundy of Harvard, Walt Rostow of M.I.T. Time after time, Kennedy reaches out past Rusk to cull ideas from Paul Nitze, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; Washington Lawyer (and Truman's Secretary of State) Dean Acheson; Special Presidential Consultant Henry (The Necessity of Choice) Kissinger; Disarmament Adviser John McCloy; or Presidential Assistant Theodore Sorensen. During a crisis, the President may rely for both intelligence data and contingency plans on the State Department's new Special Operations Office, headed...
...have seemed silly even to him. He charged the U.S. with aggression. He even offered to forgo his desire for tractors if the U.S. would only give up such prisoners as Pedro Albizu Campos, a mentally muddled leader of Puerto Rican terrorists who, in 1950, attempted to assassinate President Truman...