THE PRESIDENCY: Marked Change

There was no longer any doubt about it: the President of the U.S., once a scared little man overwhelmed by his duties, was enjoying his job and had found his own way to run it.

A case in point was last week's embarrassing snafu over rent controls. Word had seeped out that the Administration was leady to okay a blanket 10% raise in rents. An order to that effect had, in fact, been drawn by the Office of Temporary Controls. But the question promptly arose: Why should Harry Truman be saddled with this political...

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