Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MEMOIRS 1945-53, by Konrad Adenauer. In the first of two autobiographical installments, der Alte reviews the years from World War II to the Administration of Harry Truman, for whom Adenauer had deep respect...
...Harry Truman's 23% in 1951. Desperately anxious to reverse the trend, the President has fallen back on the technique of justifying his actions in terms of pledges made by his predecessors. Thus last week he explained current U.S. objectives in Viet Nam by quoting something John F. Kennedy said in 1963, two months before his assassination: "We want the war to be won, the Communists to be contained and the Americans to go home." Often he cites Dwight Eisenhower's original pledge of U.S. aid-though this tactic has opened him to some serious criticism. Illinois...
...Edner's death followed Harry Truman's 1947 decision to help stem Red aggression in Greece. Smith and Williams died in the airlift that foiled the 1948-49 Berlin blockade. Harding and Goodwin were the first Americans killed in Korea after North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel in 1950. Medendorp and Lynn died in 1954 when Red China loosed a thunderous artillery barrage against Nationalist-held Quemoy island. Anderson's U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis. Davis died when his truck hit a mine 18 miles from Saigon...
...addition, rumor has it that Averill Harriman is getting a degree this year, and he falls pretty neatly into the statesman category. Which means he'll probably give the speech at the Alumni Association meeting in the afternoon. And Truman couldn't very well get a degree and not be speaker...
...After Truman the guessing gets harder. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey will probably miss out, since giving him a degree would be a slap President Johnson's face. Rumor has it President Johnson will not get a hood from Harvard...