After two months of hunting, Harry S. Truman was still looking for a man—any man—to be his price stabilizer. The qualifications he set up for the $17,500-a-year job were modest enough.
After succeeding Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, Harry S. Truman won the presidency in his own right in 1948, defeating Republican Thomas Dewey and achieving one of the most stunning political comebacks ...
At Harry Truman’s public declaration ... was confidence that the President’s attack had hardly hurt them a bit. Events seemed to bear them out. Day after the speech, Presidential Press ...
Harry S Truman died on Dec. 26 ... The death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, President for 13 years, which had spanned all but six years of my own life up to that day. I was in sick bay on the island ...
they're named after presidents. It wasn't his proudest moment, but Harry S. Truman was the first -- and hopefully only -- ...
Roosevelt, and seven other sitting presidents or candidates for office ... Kennedy publicly apologized after restaurants refused to serve Black representatives of newly independent nations ...
President Harry Truman had ... On April 12, 1945, Truman was in the chambers of House Speaker Sam Rayburn when a call from the White House summoned him. After just 83 days of being vice president ...
From 1946 through 1952, President Harry Truman used this house as his winter vacation home and because he spent 175 days of his presidency here, it became known as the Little White House.