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...Goldwater, recently critical of Richard Nixon, had just praised him as "probably the best President we have had in this century." Next morning, the Post had a far more surprising item on the front page: a two-column erratum box explaining that Goldwater had really been referring to Harry Truman. Before the blunder was corrected, however, the original story was distributed-and printed-across the country last week via the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post news service...
Astonishingly, the real Goldwater statement had been on network television for all to see. On NBC'S Meet the Press, Inquisitor Lawrence Spivak asked Goldwater how Nixon could govern effectively in view of his low standing in opinion polls. Replied Goldwater: "I remember when Harry Truman sank to about the same level of public opinion and credibility, and today I think he is probably the best President we have had in this century." In almost the same breath Goldwater added, "So I don't just take the fact that he has been down in the polls to mean...
Lyndon Johnson's denunciation of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. In the years between, he served as interpreter (and sometimes adviser) to Franklin Roosevelt at the Teheran and Yalta conferences and to Harry Truman at Potsdam (where he tried without much success to explain the intricacies of American baseball to Joseph Stalin...
...Against Rightist Culture. Three years ago, he founded the Japan Lefthanders League to encourage lefthanders to come out of the closet. Today the league's 1,500 members receive a monthly bulletin to boost their self-esteem and remind them of such famous lefties as Michelangelo and Harry Truman...
...President Truman neglected to add, in his 77-year-old incipient senility, that had it not been for Douglas MacArthur, "the dumb son of a bitch," and the dumb generals and that cowardly "weak" Dwight Eisenhower, he would not have had a country to be President of. The U.S. can always use such dumb, weak, cowardly sons of bitches while the Trumans sit safely at home or in the Senate-waiting for the country to be saved. And don't remind me he was a captain in World War I. He was still young enough to have been...