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...warm feeling. It is comforting to know that the President like everyone else harbors a bitter and savage hatred for people who have angered or crossed him and that he is not above using locker-room language. Why should anyone find such human traits offensive? Had Harry Truman's presidential conversations been recorded, an asbestos tape recorder probably would have been required...
Clark Clifford, an adviser to several Presidents, remembers that "on Truman's desk was the famous sign 'The Buck Stops Here,' and there was another sign quoting Mark Twain: 'Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.' That is what Mr. Truman did." Clifford can still hear the ring of Truman's voice in 1948 when his Gallup was at 36%, and he was told he faced certain political defeat unless he changed his stance on civil rights to woo the South. "I am not going to change one single...
Earlier Presidents have acted quickly to fire erring aides. Truman brought in Newbold Morris to clean up the Department of Justice. But Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, one of Truman's friends, would not cooperate, and after two months fired Morris. That same day Truman fired McGrath...
NONFICTION 1-Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller (1) 2-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (2) 3-Times to Remember, Kennedy (3) 4-Management, Drucker (4) 5-Working, Terkel (9) 6-How to Be Your Own Best Friend, Newman & Berkowitz (5) 7-Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, Brodie 8-Alistair Cooke's America, Cooke (8) 9-Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read 10-The Secret Life of Plants, Tompkins & Bird...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller (1) 2-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (2) 3-Times to Remember, Kennedy (3) 4-Management, Drucker (4) 5-How to Be Your Own Best Friend, Newman & Berkowitz (5) 6-KGB, Barren (9) 7-The Secret Life of Plants,Tompkins & Bird (7) 8-Alistair Cooke 's America,Cooke (8) 9-Working, Terkel (6) 10-Creative Divorce, Krantzler