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...much of a mixer even in good times.) Nixon and Jimmy Carter were more or less reclusive Presidents by temperament. Reagan's curiosity is well contained. Eisenhower was somewhat less gregarious than the famous grin suggested; age and illness cut down his energy and perhaps his curiosity. Harry Truman was a parochial President in his friendships...
...plain Americanness, Reagan is more like Ford or Truman or Eisenhower. But he is a better politician than Ford or Truman, and has had more of an idea of what he wanted to do as President than Ike did. Reagan neatly stood on its head a cherished assumption of most students of the presidency: that vigorous, ebullient presidential leadership would naturally aim at expanding the role of the Federal Government (and the Chief Magistrate), and that any President of contrary outlook would necessarily be a cold, crabbed type or at best likably lazy. Franklin Roosevelt was the exemplar...
...Texas Truman scholar Melissa Wright '87, a Social Studies concentrator, said here general focus has been on community-oriented work, ranging from working for Phillips Brooks House to helping Central American immigrants in her home state...
Eric E. Thompson '87 was named a Truman alternate, which, said an official in the Harvard Fellowship Office, doesn't entail any money, unless one of the Truman scholars from his state decides not to pursue his studies...
...Truman Scholarship was started in 1976 by Congress as a memorial to President Harry S. Truman, said Claytor. Congress the foundation...