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...fanatic Puerto Rican nationalists who tried to assassinate Harry Truman in 1950 attacked him when he was living across the street in Blair House while the White House was being renovated. One was killed on the sidewalk. A White House policeman also died...
...consequences of a divided government is gridlock. In 1948, President Harry Truman ran by campaigning against the "do nothing" Congress and prevailed. Given the Republican filibusters at the end of the 103rd Congress, Clinton could adopt a similar strategy and run against the "do nothing" 104th Congress...
...predicted it would fall again in 1995. Clinton crowed about the fact that the deficit is down for two years in a row for the first time in two decades and said a further decline next year would mark the first three-year string of decreases since Harry Truman. He also attacked Gingrich's "Contract With America" -- a policy blueprint the G.O.P. will press if they gain control of Congress Nov. 8 -- saying this would "explode the deficit" by adding a fresh trillion dollars of debt...
Thus the question becomes not whether to apply, but when and for what. All fellowships are not created equal. A Rockefeller can beat a Rotary but not a Fulbright, while a Truman trumps a Stride-Rite with ease...
With a few exceptions, authors are usually not involved in the cutting of their work for audio. "It would have been too painful," says McCullough of participating in shortening Truman. David Halberstam, who has had several books adapted for tape (among them The Summer of Forty-Nine and The Fifties) claims he has never listened to any of them. "I presume that the people doing the cutting are very good," he says. "But I don't want to hear what they have done...