Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abercrombie Lovett, 64, Truman Administration Under Secretary of State (1947-49) and Defense Secretary (1951-53), laid down the common theme in an exchange with Washington's Senator Henry M. Jackson during the initial session of Jackson's promising new subcommittee on National Policy Machinery...
Addressing a church club audience in home-town Independence, Mo., Harry S. Truman explained why most U.S. Senators are cool to the recurrent idea of having ex-Presidents join their ranks (TIME, Feb. 15). Snorted Harry: "The United States Senators-the 96 when I was there, and the 100 now-are all prima donnas. I was one of them, and I know what it meant. Every one of the Senators is a topnotch man in his own state and is used to the limelight there. He would like to have the same consideration in the Senate. They...
...Stuart Symington have hammered hardest at the missile gap, but Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy has been frankest in facing the prospect that more defense might cost more money. The nation must increase the "portion of our national resources" devoted to missile programs, he says. Symington, Harry Truman's onetime (1947-50) Air Force Secretary, claims that drastic reorganization of the defense structure could chop defense costs by $10 billion - 25% of the present defense budget...
...This problem of continuity has also occurred to Presidents. In 1932 Herbert Hoover invited Franklin D. Roosevelt to briefings on policy and work in progress. Harry Truman, anxious to keep his 1948 opponent informed on foreign-policy developments, ordered a Teleprinter installed on Tom Dewey's campaign train, sent him "important messages that came to me on the subject of international affairs." Similarly, in 1952, he invited President-elect ' Eisenhower to the White House for chats about the "transition period...
...Assistant Secretary of War for Air joined, after a moderate protest, in a Truman Administration decision July 8, 1947 not to go ahead developing the Atlas ICBM project...