Word: trumanity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week some odd sounds were coming from Harry Truman's Administration. They were made by Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer. Sawyer looks like a businessman and talks like a businessman, and back in his native Ohio he is one (two radio stations, a newspaper, a sports arena and an amusement park...
...wished he were dead, but refused to form an alliance with the President: the temperature was 70.8 degrees. "I'm afraid," said Captain Adell in a barely audible voice, "she doesn't owe you a dollar." the "Winter White House," and as he was driven up Truman Avenue (formerly Division Street), the citizenry lined the sidewalks to welcome him back. Then, with three weeks of vacation ahead, a blue sky above the palms, and a white beach, an airy house and a green lawn at his disposal, he began doing almost nothing...
...after day, while Mrs. Truman lazed and read detective stories, and Margaret, a photo fan, experimented with her four cameras, the President concentrated on swimming, sitting in the sun and taking long afternoon naps. He got up early, as usual. One morning he teamed up with his naval aide, Rear Admiral Robert L. Dennison, beat Clark Clifford and Dr. John R. Steelman at horseshoes, 21-9 (the President got two ringers...
This week the atmosphere at the Winter White House began to quicken. Mrs. Truman and Margaret prepared to return to Washington. The President and his advisers got ready to draft the State of the Union Address, the Budget Message and the President's Economic Report. Written within sight of the sand, sun and sea, they would still have to bear, for delivery in January, the proper tone of heaviness and contention, so necessary to state messages...
...official U.S. answer to the question, as expressed by Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson in the name of President Truman, was a flat no. But by last week it was plain that a more accurate and honest answer would have been: "No-for the time being." Western military leaders and planners are agreed that some sort of army for the new West German Republic is essential and inevitable. In the face of an East German, Red-armed puppet state, a Western Germany capable of defending itself is necessary to the successful defense of all Western Europe. This view has been...