Harry S. Truman

...House and Senate health bills would have been considered Republican or at least bipartisan ideas, Starr said. In the days of Harry S. Truman, he said, Democrats favored a single-payer system. The current approach is closer to what President...

In this article: Paul Starr, Republican Party, Widener University, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, Princeton University, and Richard Nixon

...years. Rather, he said that it culminates an effort that began over a half century ago. </p><p>Reid evoked former President Harry S. Truman, saying the Democrat knew that the health of the American people is linked to the health of the...

In this article: Harry Reid, Medicare, Washington, Dick Durbin, Debbie Stabenow, and Chris Dodd

...public figures have overcome stereotypical derision similar to what she has endured. Harry S. Truman was urged to resign no sooner than he was sworn in to make room for "somebody smart." Ronald Reagan was widely regarded by the elites as...

In this article: John McCain, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Populism, Alaska, Alligator, Ideology, Moose, and Conservatism

...Byrd today became the longest serving member of Congress in history. He began in the House of Representatives in January 1953, when Harry Truman was president and the country's No. 1 song was "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus." Mr. Byrd,...

In this article: Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia, 1964 Civil Rights Act, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, House of Representatives, and George W. Bush

...national security advisers and Cabinet officials. Since its inception under President Harry Truman, the NSC has advised and assisted the president on national security and foreign policy and serves as the president's principal arm for...

In this article: Barack Obama, Africa, Angola, White House, Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States, Harry Truman, Democracy, and Washington

...Roosevelt promoted national health insurance but gave priority to jobs and retirement security during the Depression. Harry Truman fought for a single insurance system to cover everyone but ran into Republican opposition and the cries...

In this article: House Judiciary Committee, Heritage Foundation, Jackson Health System, Harry Truman, Washington, America's Health Insurance Plans, Unemployment, and Breast cancer

...notwithstanding his earlier rhetoric and actions, has hesitated to resolve the issue. Obama needs to remember what Clark Clifford, one of Harry Truman's closest advisers, said: that the president "believed that even a wrong decision was better...

In this article: Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Taliban, Stanley McChrystal, Al-Qaeda, Kabul, and Clark Clifford

("The Colonel insults me shamefully," Truman wrote in a war time journal.) Lesson: As an Army officer, Truman was khaki to the core, but he still recognized common sense when he saw it. If such experiences influenced Truman's decision...

In this article: Harry Truman, Japan, World War II, Operation Downfall, World War I, Enola Gay, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Naval Institute Press, and Geoffrey C. Ward

Harry Truman could've taught Barack Obama a thing or two about how to deal with a hostile press - basically, by ignoring it. Obama's core argument, in support of his newly declared war against Fox News, is that the cable channel is...

In this article: Harry Truman, Barack Obama, Dean Acheson, Chiang Kai-shek, Philadelphia Inquirer, Time Magazine, Douglas MacArthur, and China

It's absolutely valid to complain that Fox is opinion journalism masquerading as news. But so what if it is? Sixty years ago, the Truman administration was consistently harassed by a faux news operation that was far more dominant in its day...

In this article: Harry Truman, Barack Obama, Chiang Kai-shek, Dean Acheson, Time Magazine, China, Communism, David Barr, and The Miami Herald