Word: trumanism
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...vice presidency is such a hypothetical office that it is sometimes difficult to focus on what qualifications the candidate should have. Harry Truman looked unprepossessing when F.D.R. took him onto the ticket in 1944?a little haberdasher from Missouri paired with a giant of the earth. Truman turned into a good President. Spiro Agnew was regarded as a solid, promising Republican moderate, a one-term Governor of Maryland, when Richard Nixon named him to the ticket...
TIME errs in its introduction to the Haig excerpts by stating that "not since another Secretary of State, James Byrnes, assailed Harry Truman's foreign policy in 1947 in his memoir, Speaking Frankly, has a senior Cabinet member published such an attack on a sitting Administration." I assisted Byrnes in writing the book. It is, on the contrary, an exposition and defense of the Truman policy before, as well as during, Byrnes' tenure as Secretary of State. Indeed, President Truman's cooperation was responsible for one of the most important sections of the book, on the communications...
Reagan so far has reacted calmly. When White House Chief of Staff James Baker whispered the news of the Soviet pullout to the President as he sat through a luncheon commemorating the 100th birthday of Harry Truman, Reagan merely frowned and murmured, "Oh, no." He said nothing in public for 24 hours, and then took a calculated tone of sorrow rather than anger. Said the President: "It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even...
...Truman called up from his memory a precedent for almost every decision he made. Clifford calculated that Truman must have known more history than any other President since Wilson. He understood the reasons for, and evolution of, policy. The Truman Doctrine began with aid for Greece and Turkey because he saw the area as vital to freedom and stability for all Europe...
...Truman, the dirt farmer, looked his very best in white tie and tails. He always dressed well: neat and tailored. The famed bow tie was the signal of a sporty mood. His gray hair turned white in the presidency, but it never thinned. His voice was nasal and flat, but he learned to use it to cut fog. Truman's profanity was unimaginative but effective, though never used before women...