Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMONG THE PATHS TO EDEN (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). A TV adaptation of Truman Capote's lonely-hearts story about two people who meet in a cemetery - a widower (Martin Balsam) paying his respects to his late wife and a spinster (Maureen Stapleton) who has heard that a graveyard is a good place to look for a husband...
Deserting the Ship. Some observers are so convinced Johnson will be beaten next year that they have already concluded he is a lame duck in aspic. "Lots of so-called friends are deserting his ship," said one politician, "the way they were deserting Harry Truman's in 1948 and 1952." Still, it would be unwise to count the President out-or even to rate him an underdog. Despite the challenge from Minnesota Democrat...
...Like the Truman of 1948, Johnson is doing badly in the popularity polls. Last week, while his Gallup rating rose for the first time in five months, he still drew approval from only 41% of the nation. And even though Johnson's prospects are likely to improve once the Republican Party fields a candidate who must then stake out positions on controversial, vote-losing issues, a new and intriguing factor entered the 1968 equation last week...
...Truman: That little bastard imagines himself a patriot. It was really his street-fighting instinct that got him to react to the invasion of South Korea...
...books of politics, economics and biography (La Guardia, Drew Pearson) were always bright, often incisive studies of the times and its men. His syndicated column, "We, The People," written from 1936 to 1948 under the pen name Jay Franklin, crisply and authoritatively chronicled the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations -and Carter scored one notable coup when, almost alone, he predicted HST's 1948 election victory...