Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson borrowed money to pay taxes. So did Harry Truman. And in the space of a few hours, San Francisco's Bank of America lent $75,000 to one harried taxpayer, $100,000 to another...
Died. Sherman ("Shay") Minton, 74, dour former Supreme Court Justice who defended the New Deal ("You can't eat the Constitution") when he was U.S. Democratic Senator from Indiana (1935-41), remained sympathetic to the Administration after President Truman appointed him to the high court in 1949, backing the Justice Department in most antitrust appeals and concurring in the unanimous school desegregation decision of 1954, retiring as a result of pernicious anemia in 1956; of intestinal hemorrhaging; in New Albany...
...back as last June, Central Intelligence Agency Director John McCone told President Johnson that he wanted out. At 63, and after nearly 18 years of Government service (member of President Truman's Air Policy Commission, 1947-48; deputy to James Forrestal, first U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1948; Under Secretary of the Air Force, 1950-51; chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1958-61; CIA director since 1961), that seemed a reasonable request. Now McCone has set a definite date for his resignation: May 1. And Johnson has ordered a top-priority search for a replacement...
Died. David losifovich Zaslavsky, 85, Pravda's most poisonous penman since 1928, who called Churchill "a broken lance bearer," Truman "a cold-war Napoleon," Hammarskjold "a hangman and murderer," but saved his strongest venom for Boris Pasternak, sneering that he was "an extraneous smudge" and leading the chorus that forced the author of Doctor Zhivago to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize; in Moscow...
Dwight Eisenhower was "not fitted for the job" of President, Winston Churchill was "long-winded," Joseph Stalin an "old bastard," and Douglas MacArthur "so important in his own mind he thought he was greater than the President of the United States." This is a TV commentator? Sure is. Harry Truman, 80, talking in his taped weekly TV series, Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman. That sort of thing so impressed the American Cinema Editors that they awarded him an "Eddie" as "the most outstanding television personality...