Article: The devil and shrinking frontal lobes made me say it

Article: Bush bid to ride Truman coattails irks Democrats
The Boston Globe;  August 28, 1992 ;     700+ words ...President Bush's attempt to link his campaign with Harry Truman's comeback effort in 1948 has provoked scorn from Truman's daughter, incredulity from Truman's biographer and derision from prominent Democrats. Margaret Truman Daniel...

Article: Truman's spirit hovers over governor's race
Chicago Sun-Times;  October 26, 1998 ;     587 words ......chance. But a half-century ago, Harry Truman beat the odds and defeated the overconfident...Glenn Poshard is a throwback to the Truman era. When Poshard launched his campaign, he described himself as a Truman Democrat. Like Truman, Poshard is a...

Article: Truman and the Founding of Israel
Journal of Third World Studies;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Benson, Michael T. Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel. Westport...Praeger,1997. Much has been written about Truman's involvement in foreign affairs. The...So far, most studies have portrayed Truman as an astute and pragmatic politician...

Article: `TRUMAN' AN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE INDEED.(Spotlight)(Review)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  October 5, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Dusty Saunders Rocky Mountain News Broadcasting Critic Truman Grade A Truman airs from 8 to 10:30 p.m. today and from 8 to 10 p...perhaps the most fascinating - presidential profile yet: Truman, an in-depth, 4 1/2-hour portrait, beginning at 8...

Article: CANDOR AND COURAGE // A penetrating biography of Harry Truman
Chicago Sun-Times;  June 7, 1992 ;     700+ words ...Truman By David McCullough. Simon & Schuster. $30. After Harry Truman was elected vice president in 1944 under Franklin Roosevelt...was all but licked, and 82 days later Roosevelt died and Truman was president with enormous world problems to solve. In...

Article: Bush Is Desperately Seeking Truman
Chicago Sun-Times;  September 9, 1992 ;     527 words ...H H arry S Truman is laughing somewhere about George Bush...his legacy. "I'm going to do what Harry Truman did," Bush said recently in Springfield...with them." Bush is desperately seeking Truman, the patron saint of underdog incumbents...

Article: Truman's reputation has grown in the 50 years since he left office.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  January 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ......White House nearly 50 years ago, Harry Truman was close to being a national joke. His...party's 1952 presidential nominee, avoided Truman during the campaign. And when President-ele...Dwight Eisenhower's limousine picked up Truman for the 1953 inauguration, Eisenhower...

Article: Truman.
The Economist (US);  August 1, 1992 ;     694 words ...TRUMAN. By David McCullough. Simon and Schuster; 1,118 pages...struggle for mastery in the world, the presidency of Harry Truman was the watershed. The first four months, April 12th to...world war but no less titanic, started on its course. In Truman's day the heavens rained great events, portentous ...

Article: Pleased to meet you, Mr. Truman
Chicago Sun-Times;  July 4, 1997 ;     583 words ...It is Harry Truman's gift to the American people. When he left the presidency in 1953, Truman shunned numerous offers to cash in on his name...1.7 million. Built of Indiana limestone, the Truman Library includes a sparkling new replica of...

Article: Harry, minus the hell HBO fails to bring `Truman' to life
The Boston Globe;  September 7, 1995 ;     475 words ..."Truman," like Harry's daughter, Margaret, knows...hard-working and, quite frankly, dull. "Truman" (premiering Saturday night at 8) unfolds...encyclopedia. Born in Independence, Mo., Truman was a failed farmer at 33 when he enlisted...

Article: TRUMAN-BILL.(Obit)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  August 25, 2004 ;     354 words ...William Bill H.M. Truman August 21, 2004 William Bill H.M. Truman, 62, of Melvin Village, NH, died at the Dartmouth Hitchcock...complications due to a stroke. He was married to Diana L. Truman who died Sunday, August 22, 2004. Mr. Truman was born...

Article: Truman's legacy is Stern's passion
Glenview Announcements (IL);  November 8, 2007 ;     563 words ...The U.S. could use another Harry S. Truman as president but the same qualities that...once-classified government documents from the Truman era. Stern will talk about his findings...slide show accompanied by excerpts from Truman's speeches at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Glenview...

Article: Biography of Harry S. Truman: Chapters 5 - 7
Monarch Notes;      700+ words ......5 - 7 Chapter V - Boom And Bust Harry Truman said frequently and seriously over the...Trim, friendly, grinning that ubiquitous Truman grin, he first tried what he had learned...come from running a soldiers' canteen (Truman was a canteen officer among other things...

Article: Harry Truman's Forgotten Diary; 1947 Writings Offer Fresh Insight on the President
The Washington Post;  July 11, 2003 ;     700+ words ......very selfish," President Harry S. Truman wrote in a 1947 diary that was recently discovered on the shelves of the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., and released...sporadically during a turbulent year of Truman's presidency, the diary contains about...