Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This excerpt from a 1951 Harry Truman letter to the American Bar Association should be in bronze somewhere...
...Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Ed Sullivan and Dean Martin-and movies, for which TV can claim no creative proprietorship. The only spice in the schedules are the sporadic specials, many of which are first class; to their credit, the networks next season will produce 300 such programs, including two Truman Capote adaptations on ABC, and at least four newly commissioned works on CBS Playhouse. About half of the specials will be documentaries-among them an NBC study on the state of U.S. justice, a four-hour ABC essay on Africa...
...speaking up for General Education," he once said after one debate, "I'm beginning to feel like Harry Truman defending the New Deal...
...Revolution; New England almost seceded in the War of 1812; the Mexican-American War was loudly scorned by such Congressmen as Abe Lincoln. During the Civil War, Lincoln himself was so reviled that at one point only one Congressman backed his re-election as President. Korea became "Truman's war"-and Ike's path to the White House. In scoffing at Stephen Decatur's maxim, "Our country, right or wrong," G. K. Chesterton echoed many Americans: "It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober...
...Browder v. Gayle, Johnson joined with Circuit Judge Richard T. Rives (a Truman appointee) on a three-judge panel to hand down a decisive majority vote to desegregate the buses...