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...commented on everything and everybody. On John F. Kennedy: "[a President] with the style of a hairdresser's assistanthe combed his way through problems." On Jackie Kennedy, after John Kennedy's death: "She'll end up on an oilman's yacht." On Harry Truman: "a merchant." On Richard Nixon, 1963: "This man has a great future in store...
Second-Guessing. Despite its reluctance to second-guess other branches of Government, the court has often done just that even in sensitive cases. In 1952, it overruled President Truman's unilateral seizure of the strike-threatened steel industry during the Korean War. Last year the court held that Congress had unlawfully excluded Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell Jr. from the Houseand the ruling stuck...
Subpoenaed to testify in a murder trial. Writer Truman Capote played hard to get and got himself slapped with a $500 fine and a three-day jail sentence for what the judge called "plain old contempt." Capote wheeled up to do his time in a black Mercedes, a blue suit and shades. "I've been in 30 or 40 jails and prisons," boasted the author of In Cold Blood, "but this is the first time I'll ever be in one as a prisoner." Eighteen hours later he was sprung, after his doctor expressed "apprehension" about Truman...
...used its economic strength magnificently to help rebuild Western Europe, and idealistically hoped to forge another superpower out of a unification of much of that continent. Soon the State Department's Dean Acheson was pushing the decision to aid Greece and Turkey against Communist subversion as part of the Truman Doctrine. U.S. failure to combat Communism there, he proclaimed, could "open three continents to Soviet penetration?like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt...
...meetings. He is both a Democrat and in national politics a liberal, he proudly points out, a former New Dealer whose office contains only two mementoes on the wall-a picture of John F. Kennedy at his inauguration and the notorious Chicago Tribune front page which heralded "Dewey Defeats Truman" in Novem...