Word: trumanism
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...1930s farmers had made plowing an art form and were competing in county fairs. Herb Plambeck, an enterprising farm reporter and colleague of Ronald Reagan's at Des Moines' station WHO, brought the contestants together in a national match that thrust plowing into power politics. In 1948 Harry Truman headed for Dexter, Iowa, where 100,000 people had come to witness the meet. Truman gave the 80th Congress hell, delightedly kicked some newly turned clods of earth as if they were Republicans, and came away with a huge grin, convinced that the reception he got from the dirt farmers meant...
...been this way all over the nation, ever since Governor Earl Warren and half a million people turned out to meet General Douglas MacArthur in San Francisco on his return from the Far East. President Harry Truman had dismissed the outspoken General, but Congress invited him to a love fest where members wept openly. The people supported MacArthur against Truman, 66% to 25%, according to Gallup...
...actually helped MacArthur that most of the press was critical of him. While the people were behind him, 85% of journalists surveyed backed Truman. That showed how out of touch were the news people. MacArthur knew that entrenched powers would try to muzzle him. "I am told in effect I must follow blindly the leader -- keep silent -- or take the bitter consequences." It helped too that he was not a politician: "I have been impelled as a patriotic duty of simple citizenship -- and a disagreeable duty it has been -- to expose for public consideration the failures and weaknesses...
Ross Perot enjoys comparisons with Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt. He sees himself as a can-do guy in a can't-do era -- as a feisty straight-talker like Truman, as a bold experimenter like F.D.R., whose plan for rescuing capitalism ("Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it and try another; but above all try something") is echoed in Perot's call for "action, action, action." Perot may never be ranked with Truman and Roosevelt -- and of course he would have to win first -- but he already personifies an enduring strain in American life...
This summer, Feldman will work for the U.S. State Department in Jerusalem, a job he found through his Truman Scholarship, which...