Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dull metallic click startled White House Guard Donald Birdzell as he stood watch at Blair House, where President Harry Truman was staying while the Executive Mansion was being remodeled. Birdzell turned to face a German P-38 automatic pistol held by Oscar Collazo, a Puerto Rican Nationalist. Both men began shooting. Birdzell was hit in both legs. Collazo sprawled on the sidewalk, wounded. Almost simultaneously another Nationalist, Griselio Torresola, attacked a nearby guard post with a Luger, killing a White House guard, Leslie Coffelt, and injuring Plainclothesman Joseph H. Downs. Before he died, Coffelt killed Torresola. From an upstairs window...
...Harry Truman took a liking to Joe Stalin, but when he got a case of the old dictator's best vodka, Truman gave it away, wondering about any man who would drink the stuff over bourbon. Truman watched with fascination as Secretary of State Dean Acheson verbally diminished Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, who had the idea he should be a larger figure around the White House...
...Today, the issue of leadership is more acute than ever. As Jimmy Carter struggles to rally a nation troubled by recession, inflation and the energy shortage, TIME again examines the problems of leaders?and followers. In these pages, an introductory essay analyzes the state of the art that Harry Truman defined as "the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do, and like it." In succeeding stories 24 prominent Americans select the leaders now living who they believe have contributed most to the nation, and there is a review of what has happened...
...Carter's rating in the ABC News-Louis Harris poll in mid-June was 25%. Harry Truman received 23% in the Gallup poll during the Korean...
...Nicholas Henderson, new British Ambassador to Washington, on changing customs: "Now, I see, the main sport is jogging. When I served here before, the main sport was baiting President Truman...