Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Truman appointed him chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board, but he resigned four months later after Truman overruled a decision of the board involving wage increases for coal miners
...about how he recently outbowled Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, had coffee with a group of newswomen, gave two background briefings to White House reporters, and warmly greeted an explorer scout who had bicycled 2,800 miles from Idaho to shake the presidential hand. Then he flew off to Harry Truman's library in Independence, Mo., to sign the medicare bill, and followed that with a week-end visit to his ranch in Texas...
...District Judge Herbert Christenberry, 67, was born and bred in New Orleans, is an old Huey Long man, was named U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana by Frank lin Roosevelt in 1942, and was appointed to his present judicial post by Harry Truman in 1947. He is a tough old bird, and he has not been notable for taking any guff from anyone...
Task of Peace. Fifteen years ago this summer, on June 25, 1950, the North Korean Reds invaded the South-just as Rhee had predicted. By this time, the U.S. had got militant, too, and Harry Truman sent U.S. troops in defense of South Korea, rallying the U.N. to join the fight. As the fighting raged up and down the peninsula, it became clear that the eventual result was to be a military standoff near the 38th parallel. That was not good enough for Syngman Rhee, who publicly and furiously argued that unless all of Korea was reclaimed, the U.S. would...
...circle widened far in 1952. Harry Truman had decided not to run again, and the winner of most Democratic presidential preference primaries was Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, a lone-wolf liberal who was unacceptable to most national party leaders. Casting desperately around for someone else, they were drawn to the able, attractive Governor of Illinois. Stevenson was genuinely reluctant; the night before the national convention in Chicago, he sat up until 2 a.m. in Cook County Boss Jake Arvey's kitchen, suggesting alternative names and insisting that he wanted only to run for re-election as Governor...