Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leaks are a great thing, especially if they do not come from the White House," Richard Neustadt, professor of Government and a former aide to President Truman and consultant to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, said...
...according to a Senator from Tennessee, "an ignorant liar, a pusillanimous liar, a peewee liar, a natural-born liar, a liar for a living." F.D.R. concurred. Joe McCarthy kicked him in the groin. Harry Truman ranked him among his top s.o.b.s. In fact, Columnist Drew Pearson was often misinformed and vindictive in the pursuit of his foes, but he was never intentionally mendacious. A courtly Quaker gentleman, he raked muck with a silver hoe-he married money and made $7,000 a week in his heyday-and set a pattern of investigative reporting and permanently emboldened American journalism...
...have expended them all as he found them. But the diaries do reflect in a detail that could not appear in his column the man's exhaustive knowledge of what went on in Washington: Joe McCarthy's bruited homosexuality and alcoholism; the acceptance of gifts by Truman five-percenters; the venality of sundry Congressmen. The column, along with Pearson's radio and TV programs, helped send four to jail, forced the resignations of several other malfeasant officials and, he claimed, was instrumental in at least one suicide: Defense Secretary James Forrestal, who killed himself after Pearson repeatedly...
...Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs is any indication of the administration's notions of peace, the negotiations are headed for a dead end Nitze is expected to strengthen the Pentagon's position in Congress. One of the framers of the original containment doctrine during the Truman Administration and an advocate of increased Pentagon spending, Nitze believes that any relations with the Soviet Union are inherently unstable and competitive, that the U.S.S.R. will respond only to strength...
...start with, there is no solid measure that Lincoln was the most vilified President in our history. Richard Current, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, thinks that Harry Truman might hold that prize. Some of the harshest material now printed about Lincoln came from private letters and obscure speeches before tiny radical audiences. Much of this had almost no public circulation at the time, although there were many widely read assaults on Lincoln from his moderate critics...