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...sure that the late President Truman's utterances on various national figures more than a decade ago will offend many readers of the forthcoming book, Plain Speaking...
...wonder if it isn't better to speak as Chief Executive with a plain tongue rather than a forked one. Truman evaluated things as he saw them and verbally put his cards on the table in a truthful, if sometimes blunt fashion...
...United States has been technically in a state of emergency for over twenty years. In 1950, as part of the American involvement in the Korean war, President Truman declared a national emergency. The alert has never been officially terminated...
...those who try to claim that our politics has traditionally been as bad as they made it in 1972. They must show us that Dwight Eisenhower traded the public trust for a campaign contribution, that John Kennedy's staff was riddled with men subject to indictment, that Harry Truman was bugging Governor Dewey...
RICHARD NIXON. Truman was especially incensed by Nixon's attacks years before on the character of General Marshall, a man whom the former President venerated. Admitting his hatred of Nixon, Truman said: "Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar, and the people know it. I can't figure out how he came so close to getting elected in 1960." Later Truman noted: "They say Nixon has changed, but they'll have to prove it to me. Where that fella is concerned, you might say I'm from Missouri...