Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find an effective voice, through the new Citizens Committee . . ." For "silent center" read "senior citizen" apropos of the ages of the founders: Dean Acheson, 74; Omar Bradley, 74; James F. Byrnes, 88; Lucius Clay, 70; James Bryant Conant, 74; Paul Douglas, 75; Dwight Eisenhower, 77; Harry Truman, 83, etc. EVERETT THIELE Baltimore
...easy for Democrats these days to recall Kefauver's embarrassing 1952 victory over President Harry Truman in the New Hampshire primary. With that painfully in mind, the White House is not laughing off Gene McCarthy's campaign...
...difficulty with the play is that the characters are greedy without having Faust-like desires. A day or so at the biggest department store in Chicago and some time rubbing necks with Truman Capote's gang would delight them. They don't want to conquer the world; they want to join some clubs...
...Wisconsin; of a stroke; in Germantown, Pa. A staunch isolationist when he came to Washington, Wiley became the complete internationalist soon after the start of World War II. As a member and chairman (1953-54) of the Foreign Relations Committee, he vigorously supported a bipartisan foreign policy, backing the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the United Nations...
After Kennan returned to Washington in 1946, first as deputy for foreign affairs at the newly established National War College and then to head the State Department's new Policy Planning Staff, he succeeded in influencing the shape of the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the designs for rebuilding Japan's economy. But then the pendulum began swinging too far the other way. From "the clumsy naïveté" of its wartime cozying-up to Moscow, Washington moved to the opposite extreme and adopted an unbending, monolithic attitude toward the Communist countries. Kennan believes that...