When President Truman took a hard line against striking workers in the years immediately following World War II, he:
"had little understanding of the plight of laborers in the post-war years."
During the first months of his administration, he became involved in a struggle between coal miners and railroad workers. It took several meetings, and fierce arguments, to get them to agree, and end the strike.
Answer:
With the ink still fresh on the last of his “Midnight Appointments,” he rode out of town and refused to attend the Republican Thomas Jefferson’s inauguration.
Explanation:
President Adams’s time in the White House deserves a closer look. It was a time of severe personal and political trial for him. His policies had split his own party the electorate thrust him from the presidency and he was hurt by a family tragedy.
Answer:
"this paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had"