Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clark Clifford, [asked by Kennedy to analyze the problems of taking over the executive], discussed transition problems with an associate from Truman days, Richard Neustadt, a political scientist who had worked in the Bureau of the Budget and later as a Special Assistant in the White House before becoming a professor at Columbia. Neustadt shared Clifford's concern about the interregnum. Both remembered all too well the lost weeks after the triumph of 1948 when Truman went off to Key West and, in his absence, congressional leaders made bargains with interest groups which deprived him of control over...
Johnson: I was around in those days. There were not many decisions made that Roosevelt didn't know about. And Harry Truman watched everything close. I am not going to let the hounds loose...
Perhaps not for Fulbright. As far as Dean Rusk is concerned, despite the immense and cruel complexities of the Viet Nam war, there are certain fundamental facts that cut through the confusion. In a session with the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rusk quoted Harry Truman's speech setting forth his containment doctrine in 1947: " 'I believe that it must be the policy of the U.S. to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.' That," he went on, "is the policy we are applying in Viet...
...looked like the anatomy of a murder after the fracas last month in Manhattan's "21" Club. Director Otto Preminger, 59, got smashed on the pate with a goblet by Literary Agent Irving Lazar during a jocular little chat about who should have the movie rights to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Preminger lost the battle (49 stitches) and the book (sold to Director Richard Brooks for more than $500,000), but now he's feeling better. Just before he stalked into New York City Criminal Court to charge Lazar with felonious assault, Preminger acquired...
...Held by the Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, a Presbyterian, during the Eisenhower years and Baptist Minister Edward Hughes Pruden under Truman. John Kennedy, when in Washington, attended Sunday Mass at a number of different churches, including Georgetown's Holy Trinity and St. Matthew's Cathedral...