Word: trumanism
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Unfortunately, though, the more the two men agree on that notion, the more they will be deluding themselves and each other. The more they will also be cheapening the U.S.-Israeli relationship and misrepresenting its very basis. In 1948 the U.S., led by Harry Truman, decided to midwife the birth of Israel out of the conviction that the Jewish people deserved a state of their own, especially after the horrors they suffered at the hands of the Nazis. The wisdom of the U.S.'s original sponsorship of Israel has been vindicated many times in many ways, by the sturdiness...
...Herman Wouk, 66, presiding over a Truman Capote lookalike contest? No, just posing with some extras for the ABC-TV mini-series of his sprawling novel The Winds of War, to be aired next year. When the author dropped by during location shooting in Siena, Italy, he was written in for a nonspeaking walk-on as an archbishop. Director Dan Curtis figured there was no point in making it all play and no Wouk...
...trouble is that these insulters leave no heirs. The best we have-William F. Buckley Jr., Gore Vidal, Truman Capote -show a flair from time to time, but perhaps because cleverness is so desperately expected of them, often sound as if their hearts are not in it, as if they are merely paying tribute to the old masters. Capote once called Jacqueline Susann "a truck driver in drag." Have we come to this? During Watergate, H.R. Haldeman's lawyer, John J. Wilson, referred to Senator Daniel K. Inouye as "that little Jap." He then defended himself by saying that...
DIED. David Noyes, 83, Chicago journalist and businessman who for 30 years was a counselor to Harry Truman; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Noyes went to Washington to help organize the War Production Board under Franklin Roosevelt, served as an assistant to Truman at the White House until 1953 and remained a close friend and confidant until the former President's death in 1972, helping with his memoirs. Noyes had a hand in such historic decisions as the building of the atom bomb, the firing of General Douglas MacArthur, the establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency...
When rail unions struck that same year, Roosevelt put the War Department in charge of the railroads. Harry Truman similarly ordered strike-bound coal mines seized in 1946, railroads in 1950 and steel mills in 1952. Richard Nixon in 1970 sent military troops into post offices where federal employees had illegally left their jobs. Still, taking on the controllers was not quite as difficult as facing down coal, steel, railroad and postal workers?who have far more members and political clout than doesPATCO...