Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. John Vivian Truman, 79, Harry's younger brother, another outspoken, poker-playing Missourian, who in 1948 became district director of the Federal Housing Administration in western Missouri, refusing any higher position after Harry's election ("I have no danged reason to go to Washington"); after a long illness; in Grandview...
...west, Johnson stopped off to visit an old friend in Kansas City -Harry S. Truman, who occupied the White House when the U.N. was formed. For an hour, the 33rd and 36th Presidents of the U.S. talked over a breakfast table about the business of being President, and exchanged compliments. "In my historical memory, no President has made such an impression in the early part of his Administration as you have," said Truman. "We are deeply in debt to Mr. Truman for his vision," said Johnson. "And this is not a mutual admiration society," said Truman...
Baruch and Harry Truman, two strong-willed men whose personalities were bound to clash, finally parted ways in 1948. In an angry outburst that was never meant to see print-but was nonetheless published by Columnist Westbrook Pegler-Baruch at that time blistered Truman as "a rude, uncouth, ignorant man." Truman, for his part, was more restrained. "His concern," he wrote of Baruch in his memoirs, "was really whether he would receive public recognition. He had always seen to it that his suggestions and recommendations, not always requested by the President, would be given publicity...
...Truman hit Baruch where he was most vulnerable, for Baruch wanted-and usually got-a good press. A Who's Who of acquaintances streamed to his Manhattan house and to Hobcaw Barony, his 17,000-acre plantation near Georgetown, S.C., and there was generally a newspaperman in the crowd. If not, the press would usually get a tip from the late Herbert Bayard Swope, famed, dynamic executive editor of the old New York World, and for nearly 40 years both friend and public relations counsel to Baruch...
After bloody rioting, the newcomers and the 5,000,000 natives settled down together in an uneasy truce while the Red Chinese juggernaut massed across the 115-mile-wide strip of water. It was then that President Truman warned that the U.S. would do nothing to stop the Communists or to aid Chiang Kaishek...