Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government, said Taft, had an obligation to help those who simply could not help themselves. On that principle he estimated the Taft program for housing, health, education and relief would cost only $1 billion a year; in contrast, he figured, the Fair Deal line which Harry Truman was peddling would cost the country $14 billion a year...
Scare-Word or Issue? Truman had given them an issue-statism. Asked at his press conference for his own definition, Truman was offhand. It's simply another one of the scare-words, he declared. He had looked it up himself in several dictionaries and none of them were in agreement. But others seemed to know what it meant-notably New York's John Foster Dulles (see below...
Asked to identify the "selfish interests" who were using scare-words, Truman turned suddenly coy. He could not identify them at present, he said, but a little further along in the campaign he might identify some individuals and some special interests. "Which campaign?" a newsman shot back. The 1950 campaign, said Truman with a grin. The campaign always begins on Labor Day of the year before the election takes place-didn't he know that...
...Harry Truman obviously planned to be in it to the last whistlestop. He was even considering an invasion of Ohio to tangle with Mr. Republican himself. One of the most energetic campaigners in presidential history was raring...
...Harry Truman was really looking for a working definition of "statism" (see The Presidency), New York's Senator John Foster Dulles was happy to oblige. "Statism," said Dulles, "represents man's conceit that he can build better than God. God created men & women with great moral possibilities . . . But sometimes those in power lose faith in their fellow men . . . They take more & more of the fruits of human labor, so that they may, as they think, do more & more for human welfare . . . That process . . . makes human beings into mere cogs in a man-made machine...