Word: trumans
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Died. Stanton Griffis, 87, Wall Street financier and diplomat who built a large fortune in investment banking in the 1920s and 1930s as doctor to sick corporations (Paramount Pictures, among others), then went on to a second career in Government service, including a stint in 1951-52 as the Truman Administration's Ambassador to Spain, where he fought successfully for a reversal of Washington's longstanding policy of isolating the Franco regime; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Imperial Rome lasted nearly 500 years. The British Empire flourished for more than a hundred. In 1947 Harry Truman urged that "the whole world should adopt the American system." His country spent something like a trillion dollars one way or another to encourage just that. But the American century, so boldly sought, lasted only a decade and a half. That period, moreover, will go down in history not as a triumph but as the time of a thoroughly ambiguous enterprise known as the cold...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...
...indication as to whether Rockefeller would also be on the ticket. The declaration was a striking break with the tradition that a President wait until election year to reveal his intentions. An aide close to the President explained that Ford's competitive instincts led him to emulate Presidents Truman and Johnson, both of whom inherited the presidency, and "make it on his own." He may also have wanted to assure Republican conservatives, some of whom only tolerate Rockefeller, that Ford intends to head the ticket. Whatever the case, the declaration erased any weakness he might have...
...make brief speeches to the House and Senate. "I just wanted to stop by today and say hello," he said, "and to officially inaugurate Pennsylvania Avenue as a two-way street." Both chambers responded with thunderous applause. As a further bipartisan touch, the President had a portrait of Harry Truman, whom Ford admires for his courage and straightforwardness, hung on a wall in the Cabinet Room next to a portrait of his other favorite President, Lincoln...