Word: trumans
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Died. Morgan Beatty, 72, reporter and NBC radio broadcaster; in St. Johns, Antigua. As a military expert for the Associated Press during World War II, Beatty accurately predicted both Hitler's assault on Russia and the successful Soviet resistance. Later, he reported Roosevelt's choice of Harry Truman as his 1944 running mate before even Tru- man knew about it. But his biggest scoop was never broadcast: sailing home from the 1945 Potsdam Conference on a naval vessel with Truman, Beatty guessed that an atomic bomb was to be dropped on Hiroshima when Truman interrupted a poker game...
...more philosophical moments, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has pondered his new boss in the international setting. He fits him into the company-if not yet, of course, the stature-of Harry Truman and Pope John, men elevated to power because they were perceived to be plain, calm and safe...
...Truman was a common man who became the nation's Chief Executive-like Ford, by accident-at an uncommon time. The early postwar years marked the apex of America's political influence and prestige. Communism was a cold war threat, but the Soviet Union lagged far, far behind America as a military power. In short, no U.S. President before Truman or after him had such capacity to shape the course of history...
...typical that he called his Administration the Fair Deal. Not Great. Not Big. Just Fair.) Without that extraordinary scheme for giving, the Marshall Plan, Western Europe might never have survived as a community of free, capitalist democracies. A case could be made that the civil rights movement began with Truman's tough, ten-point message to Congress in 1948, which created the Federal Fair Employment Practices Committee. It also created the Dixiecrat movement, which cost him the 39 electoral votes of four Southern states in that year's election...
...bromide of American politics that Presidents "grow" in office. But some have actually shrunk in the job, and most have remained depressingly the same in character and ability. Truman was one of the few who demonstrated a capacity to change with the demands of his epoch. It is that capacity that underlies the wistful longings of Trumania...