Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. In an effort to expand the dimensions of journalism by exploring the subsurface of a vicious and senseless murder, Novelist Capote has permanently enriched and amplified the reporter's craft...
Congressman: We've got to win it. That's why Roosevelt and Truman were so great. They let their military leaders...
Highlight of the week was a flight to Independence, Mo. Accompanied by his new lectern and a planeload of Harry Truman's old White House aides, Johnson went to pay tribute to the former President on the establishment of the Harry S. Truman Center for the Advancement of Peace at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Leaning heavily on his cane and looking all of his 81 years, Truman, in a speech read for him, said of the years since he began to fight the cold war: "It all seems to have been in vain. Memories are short and appetites...
...Truman heard Johnson repeat his own appeal for peace in Asia and his determination to fight against aggression there, much as Truman had done in the Korean War. Then the mood changed. Because he "wanted the entire world to know that we haven't for gotten who is the real daddy of medicare," Johnson jubilantly presented the Trumans with their applications for voluntary medical insurance, countersigned the forms as their witness and then is sued medicare cards Nos. 1 and 2 to Harry and Bess...
...this brutal and senseless real-life event Truman Capote has built his latest book. It would be hard to imagine a more implausible crime reporter. Though Capote had ventured into non-fiction before, his reputation had been secured by short novels (The Grass Harp, Breakfast at Tiffany's) and stories of such delicacy that their wispy author has been called, among many other things, "the last of the old-fashioned Valentine makers...