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Washington's Clark Clifford saw the same thing long ago when he served in Harry Truman's White House. "President Truman had a deep and sincere loyalty to those working for him," said Clifford. "He stood by them from first to last. In a few instances his confidence may have been held too long. But the morale and dedication of the others to him transcended everything else." The same could be said of Reagan...
...There are a whole set of presumptions built in. It goes back to the Truman Doctrine and you can't lose countries, and to the hemisphere is our hemisphere," he added...
Handling an SOB once it has escaped can be quite a fascinating exercise. President Truman let one loose after Columnist Drew Pearson blasted Aide Harry Vaughan; Pearson promptly promoted a new fraternity, "Sons of Brotherhood." Kennedy, SOBing during the 1962 steel crisis, blamed his father for having told him that big steelmen fit the description. Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker stirred some trouble after an Ottawa meeting when his staff claimed that notes Kennedy left behind revealed that the President had SOBed Diefenbaker in the margin. Kennedy claimed he couldn't have done that because he did not know...
...Harry Truman was in the White House, Old Glory had just 48 stars, and the Dodgers were still Brooklyn's beloved Bums when the international treaty outlawing genocide was first sent to the U.S. Senate for ratification in 1949. In the intervening years, every American President except Dwight D. Eisenhower has endorsed the pact, and 96 nations, including the Soviet Union, have confirmed it. Last week the Senate finally approved the treaty by a vote of 83 to 11. Said Majority Leader Robert Dole: "We have waited too long to delay further...
...their Fourth of July concerts in Washington, Hodel seemed to do for the made-in-America Chrysler chairman: give him the publicity he so eagerly seeks. But a former Interior official (not Watt) cast Hodel's decision in heroic terms, calling it "the most courageous act since Truman fired MacArthur...