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George E. Allen, lawyer, raconteur and poker-playing intimate of Presidents (F.D.R., Truman, Eisenhower), has made some money in the stock market over the years. Not, however, on any inside tips from his friends. His secret: Allen's Law of Politico-Market Cycles...
Russell built his national career largely as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, a post he assumed in 1951. The same year, President Harry Truman fired Douglas MacArthur as commander of U.S. and United Nations troops in Korea. The incident caused a turmoil across the country, but the dangerously loud outcries of protest were skillfully muted by Russell's careful, thorough conduct of committee hearings on the incident. Later, as the Senate's foremost spokesman on military affairs, Russell championed anti-ballistic missiles, a strong Navy and new manned bombers for the Air Force. A devout Methodist...
...believe," wrote Harry Truman in his memoirs, "that if Dick Russell had been from Indiana or Missouri or Kentucky, he may well have been President." As it was, Richard Brevard Russell Jr. was an unreconstructed Georgian from the red-clay hamlet of Winder, 45 miles northeast of Atlanta; his one effort at the Democratic nomination, in 1952, quickly collapsed because of his unshakable racial attitudes. Russell remained in the U.S. Senate for 38 years. There he alternated between outdated parochialism and respected service in the national interest. When he died at 73 last week of the complications of chronic lung...
...early as the Korean War, Rivers had urged President Truman to use nuclear weapons. Following the Pueblo incident, he proposed that the U.S. give North Korea 24 hours to return the vessel, or "I'd make sure that at least one of her cities would disappear from the face of the earth." His response to Viet Nam: "Retaliation, retaliation, retaliation. They say, 'Quit the bombing.' I say, 'Bomb...
...covert dealings indicates that the different branches of Government simply do not trust one another very much these days. Can an atmosphere of greater confidence within the Government be achieved? Fortunately there is a pattern. It was little more than 20 years ago that a Democratic Administration under Harry Truman and key Senate Republicans led by Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan established a remarkable, non-partisan relationship of trust that permitted such historic undertakings as the Marshall Plan and the NATO treaty, and gained for them widespread public support. This kind of open policymaking can be done again, but only through...