Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of the sweep of U.S. foreign policy since the eve of World War II. Son of Railroad Baron E. H. Harriman (Union Pacific), whom Teddy Roosevelt castigated as one of the "malefactors of great wealth," William Averell Harriman has been a Secretary of Commerce (under Harry Truman), Governor of New York (Nelson Rockefeller unseated him in 1958), ambassador to Moscow during the war and to the Court of St. James's afterward. Of the major World War II conferences, he missed only Quebec in 1944, where F.D.R. and Churchill agreed to press the war against Japan after Hitler...
Back at the sundial there is a large crowd. It's clear we've got something going. An offer comes from Vice President Truman to talk with us in McMillan Theatre but Rudd, after some indecision, refuses. It seems we have the initiative and Truman just wants to get us in some room and bullshit 'til we all go back to sleep. Someone suggests we go sit down for awhile in Hamilton, the main college classroom building, and we go there. Sitting down turns to sitting in, although we do not block classes. Rudd asks, "Is this a demonstration...
...support the president. We'll all be arrested, he says, and we'll all be expelled. He urges us to leave. We say no. One of us points out that Sorel said only violent action changes things. Ranum says that Sorel is dead. He gets on the phone to Truman and offers us trial by a tripartite committee if we'll leave. We discuss it and vote no. Enter Mark Rudd, through the window. He says that 27 people can't exert any pressure, and the best thing we could do is leave and join...
Disregard of concerned groups is even more acute at today's Faculty meeting. In the first place, the meeting was called and will probably be presided over by President Kirk or Vice President Truman. The striking students have requested admission and a chance to present their position to the Faculty. Their request has been denied. (As this is written, Junior Faculty members have also been denied a voice.) The situation will be discussed without representation by all concerned groups and therefore undemocratically. The Faculty Ad Hoc Committee, with whose representatives we have been meeting, is a split body. They have...
Columbia Vice President David Truman said that the plans made by the university and police "went seriously awry...