Parody
"WANTED: A NEW TRUMAN DOES ANYBODY IN THE 2008 FIELD HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?" —Newsweek, May 14, 2007 FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMAN DECLARES CANDIDACY FOR '08 Tm in this thing to win, and don't you forget...
...When asked about civil liberties and the War on Terror, the former president reminded reporters that, early in the Cold War, he had established loyalty boards to investigate espionage in the federal government...
...history to seek reelection...
...Truman's famous temper flared only once, when the subject of his embattled attorney general, J. Howard McGrath, was raised, "I'm not gonna stand here and deny that there wasn't corruption," he said, his voice rising...
...By entering the race for the Democratic nomination some 54 years after leaving the White House...
...In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt sought a third term against the incumbent William Howard Taft, and in 1892, Graver Cleveland reclaimed the White House from Benjamin Harrison...
...Gesturing toward his wife, former First Lady Bess Truman, who sat on a nearby sofa, Truman explained...
...I've been poked and prodded like a prize pig, and if you want to know what the medical boys think, just point your browsers to www.giveemhell08.com and read the results.'' In a series of informal statements, Truman outlined positions on the Iraq war ("Hell, we lost nearly 34,000 in Korea"), the economy ("When the railway workers struck for a month in 1946,1 was ready to draft em into the Army"), and Iran's nuclear program ("Ask Hirohito if I would use atomic weapons...
...We looked into about 20,000 cases...
...The Boss and 1 were talking over supper the other night, if they're looking for the next Truman.' she told me...
...I'm damn sick and tired of reading in the newspapers about how the Democrats need another Truman," the 123-year-old ex-president told reporters at a crowded press conference in the front parlor of his Victorian home on Delaware Avenue...
...I'm fit as a fiddle," he said...
...Newsweek, May 14, 2007 FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMAN DECLARES CANDIDACY FOR '08 Tm in this thing to win, and don't you forget it' BY HARRY F. ROSENTHAL INDEPENDENCE, Mo., May 21— In a gesture nearly unprecedented in American history, former President Harry S. Truman announced today that he intends to seek the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination...
...But Howard's been dead now for (See 123-YEAR-OLD MAN, p. A5...
...what's wrong with the original?' Well, I finished my glass of buttermilk, and said, 'By golly, you're right...
...said Truman, "and 2,000 of those people resigned, and we fired another 400, including a lot of homosexuals and fellow travelers...
...Truman, whose health has been a matter of speculation since his annual checkup last November at Memorial Hospital in nearby Kansas City, brushed aside concerns that he might be too old or too long out of politics to run for office in the Internet Age...
...Truman becomes the third former president in U.S...
Vol. 12 • May 2007 • No. 34
