Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sympathetic faculty group, called the Ad Hoc Committee, vociferously booed Vice President David B. Truman last night when he announced that Columbia was ordering outside police onto the campus. Several distinguished faculty members associated with this group have threatened to resign unless the demands...
...Last week, having secured the endorsements of Louisiana's moderate Governor John McKeithen-a possible running mate-and New York City's former Mayor Robert Wagner, the United Democrats for Humphrey, led by Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris and Minnesota's Walter Mondale, with Harry Truman as honorary chairman, opened up shop in Washington...
...Harry Truman signed on as honorary chairman, symbolizing, along with James Farley and George Meany, the old guard. Senators Walter Mondale of Minnesota and Fred Harris of Oklahoma represent youngish liberals. There were senior Congressmen from Wisconsin, Michigan, Texas and California. Representative Hale Boggs of Louisiana, Mayor Ivan Allen of Atlanta and former Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina stand for the moderate South. Other prominent names: Economist Robert Nathan, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action; Ben Heineman, chairman of the Chicago and North Western Railway Co.; Richard Maguire, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee during the Kennedy Administration...
...major difference between the Truman and Johnson decisions is that the discontent with Truman was tame compared with the virulent hatreds that Johnson aroused. Then, too, except for the Dixiecrats who threatened to bolt as they had in 1948, the intraparty feud that Truman faced was minor. His really serious problem would have been trying to defeat the probable G.O.P. candidate, Dwight Eisenhower...
Even so, two days after Truman's announcement, the New York Herald Tribune published an editorial curiously similar to those that other papers would run 16 years later: "The effect of this withdrawal upon the political scene should be to clear the air and to clarify the issues. A campaign in which he participated would have turned inevitably on negative, disruptive arguments...