Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...names on the ballot included those of a woman who was under the impression that Harry Truman was still President, a man who wanted to use the Texas shrimp fleet to invade Cuba, and Bing Crosby's father-in-law. Of the six serious candidates, at least two offered as their main credential their wholehearted support of Democrat John F. Kennedy. But when the voting ended last week for the U.S. Senate seat vacated this year by Lyndon Johnson, the result was a repudiation of the New Frontier. The top two, who will soon be matched in a runoff...
...Willard Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs in the Truman Administration; Jack Corbett, former State Department economist; and Seymour Rubin, Washington attorney and economist...
...Senate floor, Kuchel attacked the society by name, saving his hardest words for Founder and Leader Robert Welch, a retired candymaker and self-styled Americanist, who rates Harry Truman, John Foster Dulles and Dwight D. Eisenhower, among others, as Communist agents or dupes. "Good God," roared Kuchel while rushing to Ike's rescue, "should the American people and the American Government let that kind of spleen be poured upon one who has given his whole life to freedom?" Connecticut's burly Tom Dodd, a conservative Democrat and tough antiCommunist, joined in. Welch's judgments, said...
Against Intellectuals. The News was so hard on Harry Truman that he once complained that "it has treated me like a pickpocket." It has called Washington the Negro capital of the U.S. It is merciless toward the Supreme Court: "Court-nik," editorialized the News, has "surrendered to subversion." Chief Justice Earl Warren is a particular bête noire of News Editorial Columnist Lynn Landrum: "Earl Warren would not make a good, reliable justice of the peace." The News stands against intellectuals ("during the last 20 years they have been wrong by a wider margin than any other group that...
Part of the problem lies in the changed press conference format. In Franklin Roosevelt's day, the press conference, held in the President's own office, amounted to an informal chat with a handful of regular White House reporters. Harry Truman held his conferences in an Old State Department conference room; yet they remained generally breezy affairs...