Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once nominated, Franklin Roosevelt was as hard to defeat as his cousin Teddy had been. Between 1932 and 1944 FDR, with his 7 letters, over-whelmed Hoover, Landon (3), Willkie (5), and Dewey (3). In 1948 Dewey lost again, this time to Truman...
Clark Clifford remembers the happy days of Truman's White House. He began the study for the unification of the armed services and worked closely on the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. There was ferment and achievement...
...itself, Anderson can sometimes seem almost too good to be true. The son of a meat packer, he is something of a populist, an anti-elitist and egalitarian. He has athletic dash and youthful charm that make many of his constituents think of a Midwestern Kennedy. But Harry S. Truman, not J.F.K., is Anderson's hero. He is uncomfortable with great wealth. Says he: "I identify with Truman, Humphrey and Mondale. All of them were poor, close to working people and came from rural backgrounds. It's tougher for me to identify with F.D.R. and J.F.K...
...attention; such tough-minded devotion to long views is, White decides, the stuff of history. At that time, he writes, "my judgment . . . would have cast Richard Nixon as one of the major Presidents of the 20th century, in a rank just after Franklin Roosevelt, on a level with Truman, Wilson, Eisenhower, Kennedy." Six days after White left the President, James McCord's letter to Judge John Sirica blew open the Watergate coverup. In evident distress, White writes: "I was to be brought down from Olympus to consider, with the President and millions of other Americans, the housekeeping of power...
...Second Lieut. Inouye lost his right arm in Army combat in Europe. Among Wilson's other famous cases: a 1970 victory in the Supreme Court upholding Barry Goldwater's libel judgment of $75,000 against Eros and Fact Publisher Ralph Ginzburg; and the initial defeat of President Truman's 1952 seizure of steel companies. In the steel case, curiously, Wilson argued for a limited constitutional interpretation of presidential power, a position he now attacks on behalf of Haldeman and Ehrlichman...