Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attack on the economic issue. In the eyes of the Joint Economic Committee's indignant Democratic majority, the Eisenhower Administration's "neglect" of fiscal policy had seriously hurt the economy. The majority report rapped G.O.P. emphasis on "tight money" as an economic stabilizer, urged renewal of the Truman Administration's "easy money" policies. Credit restraint by the Republicans, charged the report, had not only failed to halt price upcreep but had also slowed the growth of the economy. Giving themselves the best of the Korean war boom, the Democrats contrasted a 4.6% yearly increase...
Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, Democratic presidential hopeful who has made defense his favorite issue ever since he served as Harry Truman's Secretary of the Air Force (1947-50),* summoned Washington reporters to a committee room in the old Senate Office Building one day last week. Gravely Symington passed out advance copies of a speech that he was about to make on the Senate floor attacking the Administration's new lower appraisal of Soviet missile production (TIME, Feb. 1). Said he in the speech: "The intelligence books have been juggled so that the budget books...
Narrowed Gap. Like a giant exclamation mark, the Soviet Pacific shot punctuated the first rumblings of an election-year debate over the adequacy of Administration defense programs. Missouri's Democratic Presidential Hopeful Stuart Symington, Harry Truman's Air Force Secretary from 1947-50, charged in a speech on the Senate floor that "this Administration is now, in effect, planning that this nation become a second-rate power." New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert Meyner told a Democratic gathering in Manhattan that as a result of the Administration's "bankrupt leadership," the U.S. is now "dancing...
...Reminded a press conference that neither Franklin Roosevelt nor Harry Truman had been able to get a meaningful civil rights bill through Congress, but that the best bill in 85 years was passed in 1957, and "I'm proud that I was majority leader of the Senate when it was done...
Bouncing into Washington for a Democratic National Committee palaver, Harry Truman spoke more candidly about Dwight D. Eisenhower than he has done in the seven years since Ike succeeded him in the White House. Plain-talked Harry: "I've always been fond of Ike, as you'll find when my book [Mr. Citizen'] comes out, but I'm so happy he had to fire Sherman Adams and go to work...