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Where Van Buren's vice president had so little to do he left Washington for a summer to run an inn, Lyndon B. Johnson headed the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities and the Aeronautics and Space Council under Kennedy. Harry Truman did not even know about the existence of an atomic bomb when he became president, but Nixon was allowed to preside over the National Security Council when President Eisenhower was absent...
...Mansfield, the year in which the nominating process worked most effectively was 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson were "two high-caliber candidates chosen by high-level party officials, not primaries." Wilson agrees, adding that it and the 1948 Truman-Dewey contest "were elections in which both parties picked their strongest candidates," thanks to the influence of party officials...
...will vote for Anderson. Says Haughton: "They say about him being a spoiler. He could win. He could make Reagan lose. He could make Carter lose. It could go to the House of Representatives. It's all right with me. It's getting so that since Truman these Presidents don't do a damn thing. Maybe there's nothing can be done. I always believed in the American dream. But it's not happening. I don't think the President controls the country. On that Iran raid, I could have got a gang here...
...natural together, only then could the journalist begin to unearth the story. The Literary Gentleman With A Seat in the Grandstand gave way to George Plimpton playing football with the Detroit Lions. Novelists fumed. But some signed up, people like Gore Vidal, William Styron and especially Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, who began to use journalistic techniques in their writing...
Much must rest on a "sense of history," says Kissinger, citing Harry Truman. When asked what he considered his greatest accomplishment, Truman told Kissinger: "Totally defeating our enemies in World War II, then reintroducing them into the family of man." Truman realized the necessity of imposing total defeat. "So many leaders think they can take away the curse of hard decisions by doing things hesitantly or by half measures," says Kissinger. "There is no reward for losing because of moderation...