Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small children, perhaps more, during his term of office. This means spilled milk and noodles, fingerprints and crayon marks on the hallowed walls, teeth marks on the furniture and puddles on the rugs. Perhaps we could issue a $5 bill with a line of diapers hanging from the Truman balcony...
...Hyde Park, N.Y. to spend a couple of hours placating Eleanor Roosevelt, who had fervently backed Adlai Stevenson for the presidential nomination, but now decided that the man she once called immature would do. At week's end Jack headed out to Independence, Mo. to mollify Harry Truman...
...Citizen, Truman...
After a soothing visit from Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff, one of John F. Kennedy's top political envoys, Truman last week announced that he would campaign for Kennedy this autumn, and "tell the truth about things as I see them."* Was he planning to do the kind of whistle-stop campaigning he did in 1948? No, said Harry Truman, he was "too old for that." Did his decision to campaign for Kennedy mean that Jack was ready after all? Said Truman: "The Democratic Convention decided that...
...G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston Morton promptly reactivated the so-called Republican "truth squad" that followed Truman's trail in the 1956 campaign, rebutting his attacks...