Truman had earlier touched on the idea of "socialism" as a Republican scare word during an address he delivered at a Better Business Bureaus dinner on 6 June 1950, leading into a sardonic joke ...

It isn't yet clear where "socialist" will settle in the vocabulary of the American left, ... In 1952, Harry Truman called "socialism" a scare word and said that when a Republican said, "Down with ...

“Socialism” is currently a hot-button word that is too often misused. In 1952, President Harry Truman called the term “a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in ...

In 1952, President Harry Truman noted that “Socialism is the epithet they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years ...

Weaponizing “socialism” is a familiar trope from conservative politicians, but one with an incredibly poor record. Back in 1952, President Harry Truman explained that “socialism” had long ...

Harry Truman’s Democratic platform from 1948 is impressively relevant today, beyond its call for national health insurance, with progressive commitments on civil rights, collective bargaining ...

Was Truman a Socialist? Likewise, it is difficult to see how Senator Sanders qualifies as a socialist while essentially running for president in 2016 on the platform outlined to Congress in ...

As President Harry Truman said in 1952, “Socialism is [the Republicans’] name for almost everything that helps all of the people.” Republicans spew umbrella terms that they then redefine to ...

I have a vivid remembrance of having breakfast in the kitchen of my grandmother’s Italian restaurant in New York on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. I was almost 9. The radio was on and the regular ...

Roosevelt died in April of 1945, not living long enough to witness the victory he was so much a part of. Finishing the war was left to Harry Truman, and finish he did.

Was “give ‘em hell, Harry” a Democratic Socialist? No, but he was seeking practical solutions to real problems. (When once urged by a bystander to “give ‘em hell,” Truman ...

In 1945, when President Harry Truman, a Democrat, first proposed a national health insurance program, which evolved to what we now know as Medicare, Republicans opposed it, arguing it was socialist.