Word: trumanity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman was out to see the people, to be seen by the people, and to put on the act at which he has no current peer...
...occasion was a trip to St. Paul for the 100th anniversary of Minnesota as a territory. Truman ordered the presidential train hitched up, happily climbed aboard his private car, the Ferdinand Magellan. He would make a "nonpolitical, bipartisan speech," he declared with a grin. What was that? Said Truman genially: "It is a speech that throws no bricks at any other political party." Big Bill Boyle, national Democratic chairman, beamed concurrence. "Sure," said Bill. "I'm along to see that he doesn't do anything political." Both were almost overcome with the humor...
...Henry Clay . . ." It was like old times. At every operational stop, cheering, pushing crowds gathered around the back platform and local dignitaries clambered aboard. Harry Truman made neighborly small talk. At Cumberland, Md., he recalled that Fort Cumberland was the first milestone on the old National Road. "And I helped lay it out-me and Henry Clay," said Truman playfully...
...Twin Cities, flanked by Republican Governor Luther Youngdahl and Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, Truman rolled through 21 miles of streets lined by 400,000 citizens (police estimate). Every school was out; there were bands, color guards, a 21-gun presidential salute. Truman stopped at the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children, at the centennial exhibit at the historical society, at the College of St. Thomas...
...bigger and better things for the Fair Deal. They pointed to victories in traditionally Republican cities like Syracuse and Port Jervis, and to the fact that four Democrats gained city council seats in Philadelphia, of all places. They chuckled over Fulton Lewis' confident pre-election remark that Harry Truman couldn't call Lehman's victory a mandate unless he got a 100,000 majority...