Word: trumans
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Died. Clinton P. Anderson, 80, Secretary of Agriculture under President Harry Truman and a leading liberal Democrat in the U.S. Senate for nearly a quarter of a century; following a stroke; in Albuquerque. A former newspaper reporter and founder of an insurance company, Anderson was serving his third term as a Congressman from New Mexico when Truman, impressed by his detailed report on U.S. food shortages, offered him the Cabinet post; three years later, Anderson quit to make a successful run for the Senate. A member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy from 1951 to 1973, Anderson...
...Central I, The World's Longest Running Feature continues. (And I thought it a disaster when the Sound of Music lasted 2 years in my home town.) James Whitmore recreates his state role as F.D.R.'s heir in Give 'Em Hell, Harry and from all accounts does Mr. Truman justice...
...FALL of 1951, as the Cold War stepped up and the Truman Doctrine thawed U.S. relations with Spain, the Pentagon thought it wise to send a major-general to the Iberian peninsula on an indefinite fact-finding mission. Before the small data-gathering entourage got underway, all of the armed services decided to get in on the act, and when Generalissimo Franco saw that about 100 American military men had come to Spain he thought they had come to sign a defense treaty. The information gathered by this Pentagon milk-run was never made public, and while...
...after the U.S. had excluded Spain from NATO and the Marshall Plan and voted against its acceptance into the U.N., redbaiting cold warriors had begun to show support for Franco. One Congressional representative, James J. Murphy (D-N.Y.), even called E1 Caudillo a "lovely and lovable character." President Truman had a different assessment of Franco's personality. He was reported as saying to the admiral he sent to deal with the Spanish government, "I don't like Franco and I never will, but I won't let my personal feelings override the convictions of you military...
...Truman's stance on the 1953 Madrid Pact--the first executive agreement with Spain--at least in the context of early Cold War politics and the limited capabilities of Soviet bombers seems understandable if not justifiable. But even after the Soviets' development of long-range missiles made the idea of an untouchable Spanish base obsolete, the U.S. continued and increased aid to Spain in spite of Franco...