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Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. once wrote that successful Presidents progressed only by defeating vociferous and protesting minorities. Franklin Roosevelt rode roughshod over entrenched minorities to create the New Deal. Harry Truman not only battled outside skeptics but also went against his own Secretary of State, George Marshall, in rushing to recognize the state of Israel in 1948. Political capital had to be expended...
Term limitation is not a new idea. The Continental Congress precluded members from serving more than three years in any six-year period. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower advocated a cutoff, as did the 1988 Republican Party platform...
...Hoover never trusted anyone he didn't have something on," an aide once said. In the end, Gentry argues, Hoover became prisoner of the confidential files he had amassed to keep others in thrall. Harry Truman and John Kennedy had wanted to fire Hoover, but pressure on the director to step down reached a peak during the Nixon era. Fearful that his enemies might succeed, Hoover began going through the confidential folders to determine which ones might prove damaging if they fell into the wrong hands. He had barely reached the letter c when he gave up the task...
...testily sought to deflect his obvious lack of interest in domestic affairs by claiming he does indeed have a domestic policy -- while at the same time saying that those who think otherwise should blame obstructionist congressional Democrats, not him. "If you run against the 'Do Nothing' Congress, as Truman did in 1948," says Bond, "you can both lower expectations of your own plurality so you're not called a loser even if you win, and you can put the Democrats on the defensive. A non-coattail campaign becomes a referendum on the President's first four years. It's hard...
...much of this century, U.S. Presidents have found that dealing with the "unnatural" concepts of communism was often more difficult than confronting Soviet military power, which was measurable and matchable. Harry Truman, like most American pols, believed he could touch the soul of any man he sat down with after a couple of toddies. He came back from the Potsdam Conference in 1945 enamored of the new friend he called "Old Joe" Stalin. Then the cold war started, and Truman got a clear view of the dark heart of a fanatic communist...