Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recent polls indicate that Nixon's popularity rating is low and going lower. But it is still not as low as Johnson and Truman were during war crises. And surprisingly few Americans favor impeachment proceedings. There is a mystique about the Presidency that retains its grip on the American people in spite of the misdeeds of the man in power...
...times was so persistent in being heard that Ervin amiably protested: "But you are not a witness." In his half-century career, Wilson has helped Barry Goldwater win a libel suit against Publisher Ralph Ginzburg, and successfully aided Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. in resisting an attempted seizure by President Truman. He does not approve of most conservative Republicans because "most of them aren't conservative enough...
Bernard Baruch, the adviser to Presidents, gave counsel from his seat on a park bench. Harry Truman liked to walk there. In recent years the park has been a rallying ground for demonstrators, and sometimes tear gas wafted through the tall elms...
Unlike the hero of Truman Capote's The Grass Harp, Egan Fletcher Jr. does not live in a tree house. Home is what passes for a mansion in Kornelius-Above-the-Shoals, the Southern town where his grandfather owns the cotton mill. Egan lives there on the eve of World War II with his mother and sister, a 14-year-old in itchy jodhpurs...
...noted that the case is different from previous ones including President Truman's refusal in 1953 to appear before the McCarthy Committee, a case cited by Nixon on Saturday. But in searching for precedents, Kaufman explained, "if you find something vaguely alike...