Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about to elect a new President. Even such a master as Nixon, however, would have a hard time trumpeting "enough missiles" and "more missiles" in the same speeches. As a result, he has decided to say nothing except that we have more missiles now than we did under Harry Truman, and if he is elected, we can reasonably expect to get even more...
...made him "wonder whether he's grown up enough to be President." He criticized Kennedy for his "smart-aleck attack on the President and Vice-President of the United States," and charged that Kennedy had "associated himself" with Lincoln, Alexander the Great, etc., in his reply to former President Truman...
...News Conference made sense because "kids like to talk over problems with someone their own age." Smoothing his edges somewhat when he appeared on the dais with Kennedy at Paul Butler's Beverly-Hilton dinner, Sahl pictured a line-up of war heroes getting their medals from President Truman in 1945. Harry, by Sahl's account, made the usual claim that he would rather have that medal than be President, and "all the guys agreed, except this thin lieutenant from Massachusetts." Casting a miscellaneous eye, Sahl thought it not unlikely that, after the playing of The Star-Spangled...
...moves into the second half of his campaign, Jack Kennedy starts off with what is undoubtedly the best press of any presidential candidate in modern history. Thus an old Democratic lament is finally laid to rest. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Adlai Stevenson all raised repeated charges, imagined or not, against "distortions" suffered at the hands of the so-called "one-party'' press. For "one party,'' everyone was supposed to read "Republican."' But since announcing his candidacy last January, Kennedy has not done much complaining about his press treatment...
...Davenport (7) 9. The View from the Fortieth Floor, White (5) 10. Set This House on Fire, Styron NONFICTION 1. Born Free, Adamson (1) 2. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (2) 3. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (3) 4. I Kid You Not, Parr (4) 5. Mr. Citizen, Truman (9) 6. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips (5) 7. The Night They Burned the Mountain, Dooley (7) 8 The Good Years, Lord 9. The Conscience of a Conservative, Goldwater (6) 10. The Enemy Within, Kennedy...