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...television commercial looked like a Truman Capote party. There on the screen were 100 political, social and entertainment personalities brought together by the National Urban Coalition to sing Let the Sun Shine In. Youth was represented by the cast of Hair. Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young and James Farmer added soul. Merv Griffin, Chet Huntley and Johnny Carson mixed with Myrna Loy and Henry Fonda...
...district after district reported an average 5% swing to the Conservatives. The next day, as Heath drove to Buckingham Palace, kissed the hand of Queen Elizabeth II and accepted her commission to form a government, the British nation appeared stunned by what it had wrought. "Heath has done a Truman," declared the Guardian, recalling the former President's 1948 upset of Thomas E. Dewey...
Also not surprising was the fact that Harry S. Truman did not receive an honorary degree for the 26th time since he became President...
...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 '40 at his inauguration and the notorious Chicago Tribune front page which heralded "Dewey Defeats Truman" in November...
...directed at the men who guard the President's doors and carry out his orders are no novelty. "This is a problem that must have started with George Washington," says one Nixon man. "If everybody went in immediately whenever he needed something, the White House wouldn't work." Harry Truman kept on his desk a sign that read THE BUCK STOPS HERE. It was a nice, punchy slogan, but the buck got to him only after it had filtered through his personal staff. Nor is it a new idea that the men who do the winnowing can exercise extraordinary power...