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Vor einem Tag · Seventy-four years ago today, Harry Truman's hopes of spending a relaxing weekend at his home in Independence, Missouri, were dashed by events halfway around the globe. The 33rd U.S. president planned to oversee fence-building on his family farm, order a new roof for the barn, and attend Sunday services at his local church.
Vor 2 Tagen · Harry S. Truman's tenure as the 33rd president of the United States began on April 12, 1945, upon the death of president Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ended on January 20, 1953. He had been vice president for only 82 days when he succeeded to the presidency.
Vor 2 Tagen · The New Deal liberalism of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman reached its postwar peak in 1965 under President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and then retreated amid acrimony and backlash, as a new conservative politics gained traction. All this took place in the context of a “global 1960s,” in which societies in Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and ...
Vor einem Tag · President Truman began hatching another big idea: to drive the nation forward, government needed to work efficiently and for the betterment of its citizens. On July 1, 1949, Truman’s vision was fulfilled with the creation of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), just in time to manage the massive renovation of a crumbling White House.
Vor 5 Tagen · A shield against aggression and fear of aggression—President Harry S. Truman. On April 4, 1949, representatives of the United States, Canada, and 10 Western European nations met in Washington, DC, to sign a mutual defense pact against possible aggression from the Soviet Union.
Vor 2 Tagen · The appendices include a couple of articles written about how to research Truman’s environmental legacy in the holdings of the National Archives and the concluding appendix features a brief chronology of ‘Harry S. Truman and the Natural Environment.’
Vor einem Tag · United States - Red Scare, McCarthyism, Cold War: Truman’s last years in office were marred by charges that his administration was lax about, or even condoned, subversion and disloyalty and that communists, called “reds,” had infiltrated the government. These accusations were made despite Truman’s strongly anticommunist ...
