Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THANKSGIVING VISITOR (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Something of a sequel to Truman Capote's award-winning "A Christmas Memory" stars Geraldine Page in an affecting tale about the meaning of Thanksgiving. Produced, directed and adapted by Frank and Eleanor Perry (David and Lisa), and Capote...
Kings once resorted to the uncomplicated companionship of their court jesters to lighten the burden of loneliness that often accompanies power. U.S. Presidents have generally managed less condescending personal friendships while in office. Both Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower had the easy company of George Allen, an adept poker player and raconteur. Dave Powers served as a sort of White House entertainer under John Kennedy, accompanying the President to ball games and cracking Boston Irish gags to relax...
...When Truman Capote first viewed the TV adaptation of his autobiographical tale, A Christmas Memory, he broke down and wept. Viewers across the country also found it one of the most affecting dramas ever seen on U.S. television. Then Capote wrote The Thanksgiving Visitor, another chapter in his portrait of the artist as a young boy. As before, Frank and Eleanor Perry, the husband-and-wife moviemaking team (David and Lisa), adapted and produced the film. And once again, the result, which ABC has scheduled for Thanksgiving night, is a rare, lyrical hour for television...
...parentless household. The casting, supervised by the author, is impeccable. Geraldine Page, who won an Emmy award as Miss Sook in Christmas Memory, returns in what Capote calls "one of the greatest performances I've ever seen." Michael Kearney, 13, is a touching and believable young Truman. The narrator is Capote himself-squeaky-voiced, but obviously authentic...
...they succeed, it will be quite an achievement. In the 1932-33 interregnum, relations between Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt were frosty, though the nation was already deep in the Depression. Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower did somewhat better 20 years later, but not much. In 1960, John Kennedy declined to become involved in decisions that were made during Dwight Eisenhower's last months in the White House. Their first postelection meeting did not take place until a month after Kennedy...