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Harry S. Truman
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  • Edgar hates Harry Truman, he would like to see him writhing on a parquet floor, felled by chest pains, but he can hardly fault the President's timing.†   (source)
  • Truman Capote.†   (source)
  • Behind Kennedy stand Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Harry Truman.†   (source)
  • Even when everybody was raving about Truman because he had set up a Committee on Civil Rights, Milkman secretly preferred FDR and felt very very close to him.†   (source)
  • We were infatuated with people like Merman, Truman Capote, Odetta, Bette Midler, and the producer Alan Carr, who appeared on Merv in large, brightly colored muumuus, and who made Merv laugh in a way that other guests didn't.†   (source)
  • —HARRY TRUMAN IN THE SPRING OF 1998, six boys called to me from half a century ago on a distant mountain and I went there.†   (source)
  • In 1948, President Truman ordered the armed forces to offer "equality of treatment and opportunity: regardless of race, color, religion, or national origin."†   (source)
  • Harry Truman, of all people, comes to mind, when he said, concerning his administration's programs, "We'll just try them —and if they don't work — why then we'll just try something else."†   (source)
  • The first time I ever slept in the same quarters with African-Americans or took orders from African-Americans was at Parris Island in Marine Corps boot camp, and it was the political courage of one man, President Harry Truman, who ended the racial segregation of the U.S. military because he believed that fairness is at the heart of our values as a nation.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Truman remained in Washington at the bedside of her mother, who is ill, and was unable to join her husband.†   (source)
  • President Truman stayed here?†   (source)
  • Harry S Truman was now President of the United States.†   (source)
  • So my report was about the threat of Communism, the Chinese Army, how MacArthur was a visionary, that Truman should have listened to him.†   (source)
  • Well over half the crowd consisted of cadets from the Institute, and we were dressed neatly in the same salt-and-pepper uniforms we had worn to a Greater Issues Speech delivered by former President Truman the previous week.†   (source)
  • He had a crew-cut and the same underage look as Koteks, but wore a shirt on various Polynesian themes and dating from the Truman administration.†   (source)
  • We'll go by the White House, we might even get a look at Harry Truman—†   (source)
  • Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens, we observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom — symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning — signifying renewal, as well as change.†   (source)
  • And so, at the request of your beloved Speaker and the Senator from Montana, the Majority Leader, the Senator from Illinois, the Minority Leader, Mr. McCullock and other members of both parties, I came here tonight, not as President Roosevelt came down one time in person to veto a bonus bill; not as President Truman came down one time to urge passage of a railroad bill, but I came down here to ask you to share this task with me.†   (source)
  • David McCullough published an excellent biography on Truman in 1992.
  • Yes, Miss Truman, the best get-well cards to get are four aces!†   (source)
  • You give me one, Miss Truman, and then you give me one, Mr.—?†   (source)
  • "Miss Truman and I are going to get on the touring car," John finally announced.†   (source)
  • This is Miss Truman of the Howard Avenue Charities.†   (source)
  • That'll be just fine, don't you think, Miss Truman?†   (source)
  • I'll be glad to send you ten dollars, Miss Truman.†   (source)
  • Do you think you'd like to go to the zoo with me tomorrow, Mr. Wandermeyer and Miss Truman.†   (source)
  • This is Miss Truman, and I am Mr. Wander-meyer.†   (source)
  • Law, honey, I don't think this place been filled up since President Truman.†   (source)
  • President Truman's study floor had begun vibrating as if on the verge of collapse.†   (source)
  • As he took leave of Mike's parents, Truman noticed young Mary standing quietly by the door.†   (source)
  • To calm things down, President Truman sent in the United States Navy to reopen the mine.†   (source)
  • Lily Rumfoord shuddered, went on pretending to read the Harry Truman thing.†   (source)
  • WINTER BREAK PRESIDENT TRUMAN VISITS LITTLE WHITE HOUSE†   (source)
  • Told her he was the former Secretary of War under President Truman.†   (source)
  • Rumfoord ordered her to sit down and read the Truman statement now.†   (source)
  • The current decor dates to the Truman administration.†   (source)
  • Doc Bradley, Harry Truman, Rene Gagnon, and Ira Hayes with the Seventh Bond Tour poster.†   (source)
  • President Truman and other high government officials will attend funeral services at the.†   (source)
  • A Christmas Memory, By Truman Capote, 1924-1984.†   (source)
  • Well, Miss Truman, did you ever hear that one, the one about what the best get-well cards you can get are?†   (source)
  • " I must have sounded uncomfortable because he said, "I'm sorry if I'm taking up too much of your time, Miss Truman.†   (source)
  • Miss Truman, are you still there?†   (source)
  • Like when Miss Truman said girl, I made a mental picture, and then when you said couch, all I had to do was make a mental picture of a couch and attach it to the girl.†   (source)
  • Do you get it, Miss Truman?†   (source)
  • Miss Truman.†   (source)
  • The party was being given by a writer, Truman Capote, for a publisher, Katharine Graham, and the factoidal data generated by the guests would surely bridge the narrowing gap between journalism and fiction.†   (source)
  • And what Harry Truman said, really, was nothing different from the practical, pragmatic attitude of any laboratory scientist or any engineer or any mechanic when he's not thinking "objectively" in the course of his daily work.†   (source)
  • Critic, journalist, feminist, and novelist REBECCA WEST is perhaps best known for her studies of the Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg, for which President Harry Truman called her "the world's best reporter.†   (source)
  • Harry S Truman.†   (source)
  • The picture is crowded with people and they are in the doorway, it looks like the entranceway to a grand ballroom, and they are all wearing black and white, men and women both, and they are wearing masks as well, and I looked at the picture and I realized this was the famous party, the famous event of the era, Truman Capote's Black & White Ball at the Plaza Hotel in New York in the dark days of Vietnam, and I was completely sort of out-of-body looking at this scene because it took me maybe half a minute to understand that the woman at the edge of the frame was me.†   (source)
  • These were heard alongside an astonishing array of famous names, including ex-presidents Hoover and Truman, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, popular actors such as Dick Powell and Barbara Stanwyck, sports figures such as baseball Hall of Famers Bobby Doerr and Jackie Robinson, literary giants such as Thomas Mann and Carl Sandburg, and a slew of Nobel laureates, including Albert Einstein.†   (source)
  • One visitor, in the fall of 1948, was Harry S. Truman, storming through his legendary reelection campaign.†   (source)
  • Truman was roundly denounced in 1947 for adding the balcony, which was seen as a desecration of the White House's exterior architecture.†   (source)
  • ' One of the things Rumfoord had told Lily to get in Boston was a copy of President Harry S. Truman's announcement to the world that an atomic bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • And I'm standing next to a man who is either Truman Capote or J, Edgar Hoover, one or the other because they had heads that were shaped alike, and the mask and the angle and the shadows make it hard to tell which one it is, and I am wearing a long black sheathy dress that I simply can't believe I ever wore although there I am, it's me, and a little white feline mask.†   (source)
  • So Lily sat down and pretended to read the Truman thing, which went like this: Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base.†   (source)
  • The fireworks filled the night sky with the outlines of the American flag, the face of President Truman, and the Iwo Jima flagraising scene.†   (source)
  • Among the passengers on the plane were Robert Patterson, former Secretary of War under President Truman, and four students at Syracuse University.†   (source)
  • President Kennedy was initially nervous about Jackie's restoration, fearing that she would come under the same sharp criticism as Truman.†   (source)
  • This "won't be like the Truman Balcony," she insisted, assuring her husband that her efforts would be viewed positively.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow we're sending it to President Truman and other federal and state officials in vigorous protest—calling for the removal of Newark Airport.†   (source)
  • The boys presented Mr. Truman with the "first" copy of the official Bond Tour poster in a gold frame.†   (source)
  • And the Treasury Department did not believe in a gradual start: On the following day the three were to meet the new President, Harry Truman, in the White House.†   (source)
  • This morning President Truman enjoyed his daily walk to the beach one mile away, where he swam in the Atlantic Ocean and watched his staff engage in a vigorous volleyball match.†   (source)
  • The fifty-five-year-old career agent and leader of the service, Chief U. E. Baughman, has been in charge since Truman was president.†   (source)
  • She still wouldn't know it if Henry hadn't taken her to Spirito's for a pizza last April, on the day President Truman had relieved General MacArthur of his command.†   (source)
  • Special Agent Kellerman has served on the White House detail since the early days of World War II and has protected presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, and now Kennedy.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of June, President Truman had announced doubling to seven million the troop strength pitted against Japan—higher than the U.S. deployment in Europe at its peak.†   (source)
  • Their admirers crowded the lobby, gaping at the boys beneath a huge enlargement of Rosenthal's photograph, which had been wedged between smaller portraits of Roosevelt and Truman.†   (source)
  • She explained why President Truman had fired General MacArthur, had kicked him out of the military for insubordination after MacArthur voiced disagreement with his policies.†   (source)
  • Eighteen months ago, Walker was asked to leave the army after telling a newspaper reporter that Harry Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt were most likely Communists.†   (source)
  • On the home front, facing a budget deficit because of the Korean War, President Truman has again proposed increasing taxes, the fourth time since the hostilities began.†   (source)
  • The exterior views were exactly those which Americans had seen throughout the century, except for the balcony on the South Portico—which President Truman added.†   (source)
  • At mail call, Ira Hayes received an imposing package: a commemorative sheet of flagraiser stamps signed by President Truman, Commandant Vandegrift, and John Bradley.†   (source)
  • At the end of the boys' meeting with Harry Truman, Treasury Secretary Morgenthau lingered with the new President—just long enough to present him with some dire numbers.†   (source)
  • He is the most popular president in modern American history, with an average approval rating of 70.1 percent—almost six points higher than Eisenhower's and a whopping 25 points higher than Harry Truman's.†   (source)
  • Truman, smiling, asked the boys to point themselves out on the poster as photographers clicked off photo after photo—front-page news for the next day and publicity beyond value for the Seventh Bond Tour.†   (source)
  • On June 18, Truman's military advisers presented the President with horrifying projections: Up to 35 percent—nearly 270,000—of these men would be killed or wounded in the first thirty days of fighting.†   (source)
  • In late July, the Big Three leaders of the Allied nations—Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Harry Truman of the United States, and Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union—met in Potsdam to map out the closure of the Pacific War.†   (source)
  • Churchill, Truman, and their aides conferred discreetly on one further, just-emerging alternative: the one whose detritus still floated in the high winds above the testing ground at Alamogordo Air Base in New Mexico, where it had fissioned into human history only days earlier, at five-thirty A.M., on July 16.†   (source)
  • His bitter political enemy, Harry Truman, would say when the Senator died: "He and I did not agree on public policy, but he knew where I stood and I knew where he stood.†   (source)
  • At his weekly press conference, President Truman smilingly suggested he would be glad to let Senator Taft and Governor Dewey fight the matter out.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, Harry Truman declined to receive the petitioners and refused to accept the petition.†   (source)
  • I wasn't there but I was thinking of being there and coming up the path at that very moment—I've got news for you he said—who do you suppose I saw to-day—why, I've no idea, I said—why old Professor Truman—he came rushing up to me in town and said, see here: where's Eliza—I've got a job for her if she wants it, teaching school this winter out on Beaverdam—why, pshaw, said your grandfather, she's never taught school a day in her life—and Professor Truman laughed just as big as you please and said never you mind about that—Eliza can do anything she sets her mind on— well sir, that's the way it all came about.†   (source)
  • Signatures for the World Federalist petition were being gathered in the United States as well, and Cousins thrilled Tanimoto, who until then had known very little about the organization, by inviting him to be in the delegation that would present the petition to President Truman.†   (source)
  • Kiyoshi Tanimoto's idea had been pushed aside in Cousins' mind by a new one, of his own: that an international petition in support of the United World Federalists — a group urging world government — should be submitted to President Truman, who had ordered the dropping of the bomb.†   (source)
  • Japanese physicists, who knew a great deal about atomic fission (one of them owned a cyclotron) worried about lingering radiation at Hiroshima, and in mid-August, not many days after President Truman's disclosure of the type of bomb that had been dropped, they entered the city to make investigations.†   (source)
  • And at the end of that time—in January, 19—, the Court of Appeals finding (Fulham, Jr., reviewing the evidence as offered by Belknap and Jephson)—with Kincaid, Briggs, Truman and Dobshutter concurring, that Clyde was guilty as decided by the Cataraqui County jury and sentencing him to die at some time within the week beginning February 28th or six weeks later—and saying in conclusion: "We are mindful that this is a case of circumstantial evidence and that the only eyewitness denies that death was the result of crime.†   (source)
  • Look at Truman, Hanbury, and Buxton!†   (source)
  • I sat down and started to explain how Harry Truman had become President.†   (source)
  • Many years later I read Truman Capote's criticism of another novel—"That's not writing; it's typing"—and dug mine out of a trunk and put it in the trash in dead of night.†   (source)
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