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...according to a Senator from Tennessee, "an ignorant liar, a pusillanimous liar, a peewee liar, a natural-born liar, a liar for a living." F.D.R. concurred. Joe McCarthy kicked him in the groin. Harry Truman ranked him among his top s.o.b.s. In fact, Columnist Drew Pearson was often misinformed and vindictive in the pursuit of his foes, but he was never intentionally mendacious. A courtly Quaker gentleman, he raked muck with a silver hoe-he married money and made $7,000 a week in his heyday-and set a pattern of investigative reporting and permanently emboldened American journalism...
...Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs is any indication of the administration's notions of peace, the negotiations are headed for a dead end Nitze is expected to strengthen the Pentagon's position in Congress. One of the framers of the original containment doctrine during the Truman Administration and an advocate of increased Pentagon spending, Nitze believes that any relations with the Soviet Union are inherently unstable and competitive, that the U.S.S.R. will respond only to strength...
...start with, there is no solid measure that Lincoln was the most vilified President in our history. Richard Current, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, thinks that Harry Truman might hold that prize. Some of the harshest material now printed about Lincoln came from private letters and obscure speeches before tiny radical audiences. Much of this had almost no public circulation at the time, although there were many widely read assaults on Lincoln from his moderate critics...
Goldwater on Truman...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller (2) 2-How to Be Your Own Best Friend, Newman & Berkowitz(3) 3-The Joy of Sex, Comforf (1) 4-Alistair Cooke 's America, Cooke(5) 5-Portrait of a Marriage, Nicolson (7) 6-In One Era and Out the Other, Levenson (6) 7-You Can Profit From a Monetary Crisis, Browne 8-Cosell, Cosell (4) 9-The Secret Life of Plants, Tompkins & Bird 10-Upstairs at the White House, West with Kafz