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Shultz outlined a carrot-and-stick approach that drew selectively from Truman's containment strategy and Nixon's détente. "Our policy, unlike some versions of détente, assumes that the Soviet Union is more likely to be deterred by our actions that make clear the risks their aggression entails than by a delicate web of interdependence," he said...
...known as a hardworking, aggressive opponent in court. "She doesn't lose her cool, whether a case is going for or against her," says U.S. Appeals Court Judge Frank Johnson. As a result, Boyd, 33, is now taken very seriously indeed. "Word gets around," says U.S. District Judge Truman Hobbs. "She has arrived and can expect to go as far as she wants...
...statistical trend. Yet a glance at this century's Chief Executives and their Inaugural ages suggests that the presidency is growing grayer (unless Reagan passes along the secret of his Hollywood hair): Theodore Roosevelt, 42; Taft, 51; Wilson, 56; Harding, 55; Coolidge, 51; Hoover, 54; Franklin Roosevelt, 51; Truman, 60; Eisenhower, 62; Kennedy, 43; Johnson, 55; Nixon, 56; Ford, 61; Carter, 52; Reagan...
Congress began funding the libraries in 1955 and three years later, moved by the plight of Harry Truman, added pensions and perks. While departing Presidents now get a transition fund of $1 million, Truman left the White House emptyhanded. Back in Independence, Mo., he refused to take any job that would trade on his past and spent his time answering quantities of mail, an economic burden for the proud former haberdasher. Several of his predecessors had died in financial straits, including the penniless Ulysses S. Grant, who had tried to provide for his family by toiling over his memoirs while...
...bill would set limits on the size of presidential libraries, offices and staff, cut the current lifetime Secret Service protection to a period of eight years after a President has left office (except in special circumstances), and drop protection for spouses, widows and minor children. Bess Truman, who rarely left the house after her husband died in 1972, was guarded continuously by agents until her death last year. Congress had to pass a $1 million supplemental appropriation after Lady Bird Johnson cruised the Greek islands with friends and twelve Secret Service agents. The measure would also stipulate that the profits...