Word: dealings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Partisan Packages. Midway in the speech, some of the brass nickels of partisanship did get mixed in with the golden vision. The prosperous millennium can be achieved, said Truman, "only if we follow the right policies"-i.e., the Fair Deal, including such disputed measures as repeal of Taft-Hartley, the Brannan plan, aid to education, and health insurance...
...good New Deal doctrine, back in the early '30s, that the U.S. industrial plant was built or overbuilt, that the last frontier had been reached, and that the nation had better resign itself to doing the best it could in a "mature economy." In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt defined the problem as "administering resources and plants already in hand." All this was formally reversed last week by Harry Truman...
More Tax Money Too. The concept of the expanding U.S. economy was sound economic doctrine. But Harry Truman also used it for political advantage. By prophesying ever-higher national output, the President was also prophesying ever-higher federal revenues to balance the budget and pay for the Fair Deal's expanding welfare programs. It was one thing to hope for higher revenues; it was another to depend wholly on it, while the Government jeopardized the prospect by spending, year after year, beyond its means (see below). The President's economic advisers estimated that the Fair Deal...
...These may seem simple goals, but they are not little ones. They are worth a great deal more than all the empires and conquests of history. They are not to be achieved by military aggression or political fanaticism. They are to be achieved by humbler means-by hard work, by a spirit of self-restraint in our dealings with one another, and by a deep devotion to the principles of justice and equality...
...Forgotten Breed. The Truman Administration was still not sure whether Freshman Douglas was to be its foremost prophet or its subtlest enemy. He had fought for most of its program with a scholarly mastery of facts and a cool, articulate logic that had hopeful Democrats proclaiming him the Fair Deal's answer to Republican Robert Taft. But he had fought Fair Deal waste and extravagance as hard as any Republican...