Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy's score edged Dwight Eisenhower's 68% approval after his first 30 days in office. In his years as President, Ike's popularity fever chart ranged from 79% to 49%, Harry Truman's from 87% to 23% and Franklin Roosevelt's from...
...representative democracy in Latin America: El Paso Mayor Raymond Lawrence Telles Jr., 45, a Spanish-speaking fourth-generation American of Mexican ancestry. An Air Force lieutenant colonel in World War II, Telles handled aviation lend-lease supplies to Latin America, later served as an aide to both President Truman and General Eisenhower on visits to Mexico...
George Frost Kennan, 56-will go to Belgrade as Ambassador to Yugoslavia. Onetime Ambassador to Moscow (1952) and longtime student of Communism and Russia, Kennan singlehanded did much to awaken the U.S. to the dangers of postwar Soviet imperialism, authored the Truman Administration's "containment" policy. Careerist Kennan was shunted into exile (to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study) by John Foster Dulles in 1953. In 1957 he flirted with "disengagement," i.e., neutralization of Germany" and the disarming of NATO, as a means of reaching a settlement with the Russians. No less a person than his ex-boss, Dean...
...Harry Truman, Barry Goldwater, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, and Gen. (ret.) Maxwell Taylor have accepted invitations from the Law School Forum to speak here during the Spring Term...
...Truman has told the Forum only that he would like to speak after completing a planned vacation. No definite date has been...