TRB VIEWS AND PERSPECTIVES ON THE PRESIDENCYPDF电子书下载

THE ROOSEVELT YEARS (1943-1945) 3

Strout's First Column 5

The Trouble with Congress 8

The War vs. "Normalcy" 11

A Look at the Seventy-eighth Congress 13

Barkley Resigns 15

War and the Future 17

Fala Speech 19

Roosevelt-Dewey 21

FDR's Death 24

THE TRUMAN YEARS (1945-1952) 29

The Greatest Scientific Gamble in History 31

The First Six Months 34

Reuther vs. GM 36

Vandenberg 39

Bilbo 41

Postwar Internationalism 43

Alter, Quick, Breezy 44

Time for Leadership 46

Dewey vs. Truman in 48

Full Dinner Pail for Europe 50

Herbert Hoover 52

Taft-Hartley 54

Hollywood Red Probe 56

Five Decisions for 58

Truman Will Be Licked 61

Campaign Special 63

Can Dewey Snoot Truman? 66

Harry's Gallant Fight 68

"The Dewey Victory" 70

Victorious Harry 72

The State of the Union 74

The Two-Headed Turtle 77

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? 79

Acheson 82

"That's Our Harry" 84

J. Edgar Hoover 86

Executive Order on Korea 87

The MacArthur-McCarty Team 89

General Eisenhower and Senator Taft 91

"Truman Can't Avoid Firing MacArthur" 94

Russian Aggression and the "Middle Way" 95

Ike Didn't Say No 97

The A-Bomb and McMahon 99

Cabot Lodge 101

Churchill and Sir Walter Raleigh 103

Margaret Chase Smith 105

Ike in Abilene 107

Stevenson 111

Will Ike Beat Ike? 114

THE EISENHOWER YEARS (1952-1960) 117

The President-Elect Meets with Taft 119

The 80-Percent Press 121

The Senate Still Fears Joe McCarthy 123

Millionaire Cabinet 126

Dulles Sees Pink Elephants 128

GOP Dream World Collapses 131

The Vice-President 133

Herbert Brownell 136

Eisenhower's Program 138

Indochina 141

Some Praise for Eisenhower 143

"The Most Electrifying Words in the English Language" 146

Midterm Security 148

A Visit with Lincoln 151

Stevenson No Match for Prosperity 153

Kick-off Dinner 155

Stevenson vs. Kefauver 157

The Republican Convention 159

Stevenson Disappoints 164

First Lame-Duck President 166

Inaugural Parade 168

Regulatory Agencies 171

Civil Rights 174

Little Rock 175

Space Age 177

1957-Incredible Year 178

Sherman Adams 181

Quemoy and Matsu 183

Nixon Moves In 185

Something But the Truth 188

Johnson & Martin & Halleck 190

"Imagine Him as President Kennedy" 192

The Khrushchev Visit 194

The Upper-class Accent 197

U-2 199

Johnson-Kennedy Confrontation 202

Are Nixon and Kennedy Two Peas in a Pod? 204

The Catholic Issue 207

By 300,000 Votes Out of 67 Million 210

THE KENNEDY YEARS (1961-1963) 213

Ring Up the Curtain 215

Wake Up, America 217

Sail On 219

The Worst and the Best 221

"A Major Risk of War" 224

The Big Four 226

The Congressional Cycle 228

The Rules Committee 231

The Lobbies 234

The Kennedy Technique 236

Unemployment 239

Limitations of the Office 241

The Political Risks 244

Civil Rights 246

How We Look 249

THE JOHNSON YEARS (1963-1968) 253

What About 1964? 255

Hand It to Lyndon 258

TRB's Twentieth 260

The War on Poverty 263

Martin Luther King 266

Johnson-Humphrey vs. Goldwater-Miller 268

"Goldwater Will Be Badly Defeated" 271

Johnson Wins 273

New Deal II 276

TRB's Mother 278

Papa Knows Best 281

The McCarran Act 284

Predictions 286

Stuffed with Goodies 289

Capital Portraits 291

"Fellow Amuricans" 294

Three, Two, One...Ignition! 297

Robert Kennedy 302

Nuclear Balance of Terror 305

Step Up or Escalate 307

Jobs and Social Justice 310

"The Likability Gap" 312

Cloudy Crystal Ball 315

Off the Track 318

Johnson Won't Run Again 320

What Happens to Our Most Cherished: Kennedy and King 323

Resurrection City 326

Gun Control and the Death of Bobby Kennedy 328

Riots in Chicago 331

Nixon Will Beat Humphrey 334

Humphrey's Logorrhea 336

THE NIXON YEARS (1968-1974) 341

"Mr. Nixon Will Offer Bad Solutions" 343

The Nixon Coalition 345

The Warren Court 348

Senate Hearings 351

Lindsay and Muskie 354

Nixon and the Press 356

The Crime Men: Clark and Hoover 359

The Greatest Problem in the United States 362

The Record of the Ninety-first 365

Arthur Burns 368

Veteran Protest 370

Noncandidate Kennedy 373

Pilgrimage 376

Press Conferences-Harding to Nixon 379

Busing 382

Nixon vs. McGovern 384

The Watergate Caper 387

The Two-Party System Is Collapsing 390

Kissinger Explains the Christmas Bombing 393

Does He Believe What He Say? 396

Faults in the Constitution 399

TRB Remembers 402

Agnew-Not Like Other Men 405

The Era of Scarcity 407

James Madison on Impeachment 410

Mr. Middle America 413

The Call of Duty 416

Remembering D-Day 419

Nixon Resigns 422

THE FORD YEARS (1974-1976) 425

Our Form of Government 427

An Incredible Year 430

I Dissent 432

House of File Cards 435

The Bicentennial 438

Groping for Myths 441

Great Political Speeches 444

Muskie 447

Campaigning in New Hampshire 449

What Carter's Not 452

The Incumbent 455

Listen to Fritz 458

The Electoral College 461

Waiting for the Last Act 464

THE CARTER YEARS (1976-1978) 467

I Solemnly Swear 469

Report Card 472

Eight Million Illegal Immigrants 475

Silent Cal 478

Senator Byrd 481

Terror 484

When Isolationism Died 486

The Economic Report 489

Tax Time 492

A Puff for Jimmy 495

E. B. White Defines Democracy 498

Jimmy Parts the Red Sea 501

Strout's Far-from-Last Word 505

Index 515