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Truman won the presidency in his own right in 1948, defeating Republican Thomas Dewey and achieving one of the most stunning political comebacks in American history. Challenges: The Cold War began ...

President Harry Truman's diary is one source historians have evaluated for information about his decisions at the end of World War II. Read this excerpt written in mid-June, while the Battle of ...