Word: trumanism
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...brain trust. The bashful, bespectacled corporate lawyer-in partnership with the flamboyant politician Thomas G. Corcoran-masterminded the details of establishing the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Fair Labor Standards Act and other governmental landmarks. Cohen, who returned to private practice in 1947, served President Truman as a delegate to the U.N. Disarmament Commission...
...have a brave historical ring but makes little fiscal sense. The origins of good leadership, or the lack of it, are as varied as the states. Peirce and Hagstrom suggest that Missouri's skeptical show-me spirit accounts for the caliber of such men as Harry Truman, Clark Clifford and Stuart Symington. Residents of New Jersey have never registered much interest in local government, mainly because most of the state's population lives under the professional and cultural shadow of New York City. By contrast, Louisiana politics, wrote A.J. Liebling, "is of an intensity and complexity that...
...syndicated at its peak in more than 300 newspapers; of a heart attack; in Santa Rosa, Calif. His distinctive one-panel series was neither comic strip nor editorial cartoon, though his jokes grew more topical. One regular character, the bombastic Senator Snort, was a favorite of President Harry Truman, who owned twelve original Lichty cartoons...
...mathematical tools to project the future. With his 300-lb. bulk and a florid face framed by a tailored white beard, Kahn had a commanding presence that seemed to complement a mental and verbal vigor bordering on arrogance. He briefed, and at times berated, every President starting with Harry Truman, and at his first hour-long meeting with Ronald Reagan in 1981, he permitted the new President to get in only a few words. "The main thing we do is change attitudes," Kahn told TIME Correspondent Joelle Attinger shortly before his death. "We're trying to educate policymakers...
...journalist is killed in a war. His employers will remark on his courage and devotion to duty, his colleagues on his professionalism; from close friends and family will come expressions of grief or anger. Occasionally, in the case of celebrities, a President will offer a eulogy, as did Harry Truman for Ernie Pyle, killed in the South Pacific in 1945: "No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as the American fighting man wanted it told." The standard was dubious, but the praise sincere. For the public these moments pass rather quickly...