...have sought to predict the nature, timing and location of the next crisis, we have been wrong. In 1948, President Harry Truman and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Arthur Vandenberg ? an erstwhile isolationist ? came to a consensus...
...because of budget concerns. "The Defense Department said in early February that it would not deploy the U.S.S. Harry Truman to the Persian Gulf, citing budget concerns relating to the looming cuts known as the sequester," Woodward was reported...
...Was it Jimmy Carter? Nope.Was it Clinton? Nope. Was it Al Gore? Nope.It was part of a campaign speech given by Harry Truman in September 1948. Not much has changed in the last 64 years.Sara DunlapBrainerd
...Assembly this Fall. It was Secretary of State George Marshall in May 1948 who did his utmost to dissuade President Harry Truman from recognizing the new independent State of Israel. The United Nations Resolution No. 181, "The Partition Resolution...
...being $48,000 in debt the day they are born. And the Social Security fund being robbed for over $3 trillion, since Harry Truman, and also going broke because we have exterminated over 47 million unborn babies since 1973, who would be now in the...
...nation's school children has been the focal point of very important legislation. It was that year that President Harry Truman signed the National School Lunch Act into law. This landmark legislation was designed to "protect the health and well-being...
...infrastructure means and despise banks.More important, Obama began sticking it to Congress, laying the groundwork for a 1948 Harry Truman-style campaign. Rebooting his presidency will require a bold plan that says to an obstructionist opposition: "It's...
...asked the Census Bureau to provide information about the people in a neighborhood where they hoped to move President Harry Truman. Census Coordinator Ed Goldfield denied the request.
...Roosevelt's day it was a hide-out with little hot water and with brush growing to the windowsills," Nelson writes. Harry Truman had the brush cleared and Eisenhower built a putting green in the clearing; Nixon added a heated swimming pool. Nelson...
...Thank you President Clinton." Arkansas delegate Harry Truman Moore of Paragould called Clinton's exit from the...wrong with the longest economic expansion in history. "Harry Truman's old saying has never been more true," he said...
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