Word: trumanism
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...most. Furthermore, Gore is the one candidate who stands squarely in the Democratic Party's proud tradition of international leadership, economic growth, and social justice. He promises a return to the pragmatism and hard-nosed leadership that characterized the Democratic Party of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Harry S. Truman, and John F. Kennedy...
...talking about the days when Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman were in the White House...
Merle Miller, who died shortly after finishing this mammoth book last year, achieved his greatest success with his oral biographies of Presidents Truman and Johnson. He obviously knows a good story, and he admires his hero. Though a number of Eisenhower's fellow commanders in World War II regarded him mainly as an international "board chairman," Miller, himself a combat correspondent for Yank, sees Eisenhower as a consummate politician and diplomat whose mixture of heartiness, cunning and charm helped hold together a fragile military coalition. "He was most complex," Miller writes. "Dwight Eisenhower could and did outsmart, outthink, outmaneuver, outgovern...
Although Paul Simon's recent surge in Iowa was interpreted as a boost from a constituency that still remembers Harry Truman, the retirees' vote seems up for grabs. So far the only candidates who have dared stray from the party line are those so far behind in the polls that they have little to lose. Bruce Babbitt talks of raising taxes on Social Security benefits of the affluent elderly. Pat Robertson and Pete du Pont warn that Social Security is threatened with bankruptcy and advocate shifting some of the burden to private plans. "When the baby-boom generation retires...
When we look back at the Presidents, such as Truman and Eisenhower, who had turbulent periods toward the end of their terms, we realize that history judges people for their cumulative accomplishments. President Reagan is likely to be remembered as one of the 20th century's greatest Presidents...