A lot of Truman can be blamed on FDR's clandestine semiotics: he told so many advisors so many different things, and met Truman just twice after inauguration, that it's no wonder Truman had to improvise.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 1 August 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
david brooks longs for the days of a tight-knit "bipartisan" washington oligarchy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/opinion/01brooks.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin
― J.D., Friday, 1 August 2008 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
could play the piano AND callously incinerate hundreds of thousands
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 1 August 2008 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
That Merle Miller "oral biography" of Truman is pretty wild to read.
Especially when HST uses the word "nigger" on every other page.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 1 August 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG he used the word "chippie"! That is my favorite word for a floozy!
― Abbott, Friday, 1 August 2008 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
"Nigger" however is not my favorite anything.
― Abbott, Friday, 1 August 2008 23:43 (fifteen years ago) link
created the illegal CIA
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Congress approved its charter.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/twinpeaks/foto/twin_peaks_12.jpg
can't believe no-one did this
― akm, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
truman deserves some shit for creating the CIA but it was a reasonably defensible agency until eisenhower took over and started using it to overthrow liberal foreign governments.
― J.D., Wednesday, 17 December 2008 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link