Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Imitating Harry Truman, Ford whistle-stopped by railroad through Michigan over the weekend. But unlike "Give 'Em Hell" Harry, he did not turn his listeners on much. His style was reassuring but plodding and predictable. Sometimes defending his record, sometimes sounding almost as anti-Washington as Jimmy Carter, the President often seemed to say the right thing the wrong way. Earlier, at a shopping center in a Detroit suburb, the audience started to drift off as soon as he began talking...
...perpetuation than to the interests of the country as a whole. Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, now a University of Georgia professor, notes sadly that Washington (and the governments of Western Europe and Japan) "appear to be afraid of their own people. My mind goes back to Harry Truman. He had a fundamental confidence in the American people. He thought that at the grass roots the people would do what had to be done by the end of the day if they were told what to do and why it had to be done. Truman thought Americans were good...
...Allen White, the Emporia sage of the 1920s, have re-entered the national discussion and how the small-town wisdom and wit of Will Rogers have been rekindled on the stage with amazing success by James Whitmore (who also does a nice impression of the man from Independence, Harry Truman...
...Andy Jackson," muses Dean Sayre, "was a dirty old soldier before he came to the White House, and Lincoln, this fellow of the prairie, we've had no more religious leader in all our history. Wilson had a vision. Harry Truman, that haberdasher from Missouri, he was a towering figure of moral probity. American people expect it in our system, but the more...
Then he talked about his heroes. "My favorite modern President is Harry Truman. He exemplified the kind of Administration I would like to have." Carter said that he admired Truman's honesty, vision in foreign policy and "closeness with the American people." He also has a high regard for John Kennedy as a "much more inspirational President" than Truman, and for Lyndon Johnson's deep concern for the poor and the weak and his skill in pushing legislation through Congress. He spoke of Winston Churchill as the pre-eminent leader of our time, of Charles de Gaulle as uniquely expressing...