Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past when no direct quotes were permitted at a presidential news conference. From Harry Truman's brusque "No comment" to Lyndon Johnson's lengthy circumlocutions, Presidents have learned to develop gambits for avoiding touchy subjects. But the anony mous answer remains the most popular. And it leads on occasion to such an apparent absurdity as a New York Herald Tribune article attributing quotes from a walking presidential press conference to a "high White House official," while directly above the story appeared an Associated Press photo picturing L.B.J. and the strolling reporters...
...transferred to Washington to be near the majority of its subjects. As a result, the Carnegie funds have recently been real-located to the Federal government, the project has been moved to the National Archives in Washington, and Charles T. Morrissey, former staff member of the Harry S. Truman Library, has replaced Handlin as director of the oral record...
Captain Harry S Truman, former President of the United States, will be awarded an honorary LL.D. at Commencement this year, the CRIMSON failed to learn yesterday. The CRIMSON has failed to learn this for 12 years now, but it is still hoping...
...right to enact their own right-to-work laws banning union-shop contracts. Nineteen states* have done that, and of the entire Taft-Hartley law, 14(b) has become the section most odious to labor leaders. As a Congressman, Lyndon Johnson voted for Taft-Hartley and to override President Truman's veto. But last year, as he set out to gather votes from every segment of U.S. society, he made clear to A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany that he would seek repeal of 14(b), saw to it that the pledge was written into the Democratic platform...
Manhattan now boasts 21 discotheques, where such luminaries as Rudolf Nureyev, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Truman Capote, Baby Jane Holzer, Sammy Davis Jr., ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, Carol Channing, Peter Lawford, Tennessee Williams and Oleg Cassini mix it up with the hip twitchers. Both New York Senators?Jacob Javits and his wife Marion ("My husband and I just love to frug"), and Bobby Kennedy and Ethel ("I can't believe all that action on such a small floor")?make the discotheque scene. Jackie Kennedy, on her occasional visits to Il Mio, does a sedate version of the frug. Adlai...