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8 May 2017, 3:00 am
Kansas City political boss Tom Pendergast was turned down by four other possible candidates in 1934 when he sought a candidate to support for a U.S. [read post]
3 Nov 2017, 3:00 am
When Truman’s political ally, Tom Pendergrast, was convicted of tax evasion in 1939, few people thought Truman stood a chance of getting re-elected in Missouri. [read post]
STACY MCCAIN: “Is it just me? Is there anyone else who has a hard time imagining Harry Truman doing…
18 Jul 2012, 8:13 pm
Is there anyone else who has a hard time imagining Harry Truman doing a 1948 whistle-stop tour, proclaiming that Tom Dewey was hostile to ‘transgender Americans’? [read post]
9 Apr 2013, 3:41 pm
The senior Clark, appointed by Harry Truman,... [read post]
23 Sep 2013, 6:35 am
” For his part, Tom Clark took the high road. [read post]
24 Dec 2007, 9:10 pm
Truman did declare such an emergency in December 1950, after China entered the Korean War. [read post]
2 May 2013, 9:31 am
Let’s start with Tom Clark. [read post]
10 Sep 2022, 9:30 pm
Clair’s Defeat2: Joint Committee on the Conduct of the Civil War3: Congress Investigates KKK Violence During Reconstruction4: Thomas Walsh and the Teapot Dome Investigation5: Ferdinand Pecora and the 1929 Stock Market Crash6: Harry Truman and the Investigation of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in World War II7: Joe McCarthy’s Oversight Abuses8: Abraham Ribicoff and the Traffic Safety Hearings9: The Watergate Hearings10: Frank Church and the Church Committee11: Representative John… [read post]
11 Apr 2013, 12:30 am
The Clarks’ lives and careers also offer a veritable who’s who of 20th-century American law and policy: from Tom’s close relationships with Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Sam Rayburn, and Earl Warren, to Ramsey’s connections with Robert Kennedy, LBJ, and Martin Luther King Jr. [read post]
11 Apr 2013, 9:00 pm
The Clarks’ lives and careers also offer a veritable who’s who of 20th-century American law and policy: from Tom’s close relationships with Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Sam Rayburn, and Earl Warren, to Ramsey’s connections with Robert Kennedy, LBJ, and Martin Luther King Jr. [read post]
1 Jan 2010, 9:40 am
She's a graduate of the UVA law school, a Truman Scholar, her dad was dean of the University of New Mexico medical school. [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 8:27 am
60 years ago, when Harry Truman beat Tom Dewey for the presidency, it was widely predicted by pollsters that Truman would lose. [read post]
29 Jul 2016, 11:55 am
Includes complete Truman inaugural speech. [read post]
23 Jul 2015, 12:00 pm
On his second attempt, he guessed Harry Truman. [read post]
16 Jul 2016, 10:03 pm
Harry Truman could drink bourbon down at the Capitol until FDR assumed room temperature. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 12:46 pm
By Tom Engelhardt, cross-posted from Tom Dispatch Sometimes words outlive their usefulness. [read post]
2 Dec 2016, 7:11 am
Some commentators, including Tom Ricks in Foreign Policy, have noted that his appointment may also indicate limitations on the influence of Trump’s National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn, whose iconoclastic views on Russia and outspoken dislike of Islam has caused concern. [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 10:16 pm
And if he is the best you can offer ...But does Kaiser remember-- no, actually, I guess he doesn't remember--the 80th Congress, the Do-Nothing Congress, the Congress that made it their business that Harry S Truman accomplished nothing, nothing, in what they confidently assumed would be the sunset of his incumbency? [read post]
4 Apr 2010, 9:00 am
So let's kick off the season with ten tidbits of "opening day" trivia: 1907: The New York Giants forfeit the game after fans engage in an on-the-field snowball fight. 1910: William Howard Taft becomes the first President to throw out the ceremonial opening-day pitch. 1940: Bob Feller throws the first (and only) opening-day no-hitter. 1947: Jackie Robinson makes his professional debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming MLB's first black player in the 20th century. 1950: President… [read post]
13 Aug 2009, 10:30 am
Truman, James E. [read post]
