Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ichabod specter of Estes Kefauver clomped through the stop-Kennedy speculation and talk. In 1952, with a successful string of 13 primaries behind him, the Keef was stopped cold in mid-convention by President Harry Truman and the Democratic bosses simply because he did not fit their image of a nominee. No such feelings exist about Kennedy, and his one big bugaboo-his Catholic religion-was gone with West Virginia...
Southern Secession. With nobody willing to step aside and nobody really determined to stop Kennedy, the situation of the rivals began to disintegrate. Truman endorsed Symington, as everyone expected him to, but even that had a slight boomerang quality about it. Questioned in Chicago by reporters, Truman said limply that the only thing he had against Kennedy was the fact that "he lives in Massachusetts." Campaigning in Maryland, Jack cracked back: "I have news for Mr. Truman. Mr. Symington was born in Massachusetts." In the South there were signs of an incipient secession from Lyndon Johnson. A wobbly move...
...promises have been made. With the smell of victory in the air, the Kennedy forces are ready to make that more than clear. "The field is wide open," said a top Kennedy lieutenant last week. "The wider open it is, the better it is for Kennedy." Everybody but Harry Truman is eligible...
Tart-tongued Harry Truman, nearing his 76th birthday at week's end, attended a mock Democratic Convention at Virginia's Washington and Lee University...
...Dandy, by Ellen Moers. The impulse to pluperfection in male attire, scarcely visible in the age of the sack suit and Truman shirt, ran high from Beau Brummell's time to Max Beerbohm's, and the author charts it with sober care...