May 8, 2020 6:30 am

‘From vulgarity to vulgarity,’ &c.

Harry S. Truman, William F. Buckley Jr., Andrew Cuomo, ‘Moonface,’ Lamborghinis, and more

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1953: President Harry Truman announces during his State of the Union address tthat the U.S. has developed a thermonuclear, or hydrogen, bomb: “From now on, man moves into a new era of destructive power, capable of creating explosions of a new order of magnitude.” Pictured: President Truman.

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Chances are, you know the National Review Institute, but do you know its book club? We are reading Up from Liberalism, the 1959 book by William F. Buckley Jr. I wrote a little post about the club and the book here.

He was no fan of Harry S. Truman, WFB.