Articles related to "Harry Truman"

Harry Truman commanded an artillery battery in WWI with determination, bravery, and fine leadership.

The Fair Deal of President Truman was a comprehensive collection of domestic liberal policies that strengthened some New Deal programs and attempted to go further.

Harry S Truman, remembered today as a generally great President, made a number of very memorable decisions during his first term, including that to use "the bomb."

An "accidental" President who antagonized the left and right wings of his party, Truman was given no chance of reelection. His upset win confounded the experts.

Harry Truman, despite his current status as one of America's greatest Presidents, found his second term dogged by the lowest Presidential poll numbers ever recorded.

The Democrats in 1950 were faced with an opposition party accusing it of being soft on Communism and allowing China to fall to Chairman Mao. Korea would prove them wrong.

Political election polls in presidential elections survived and thrived despite some high profile blunders by leading polling organizations such as Gallup's Poll in 1948.

Harry Truman's rise to political power, first in Missouri and then nationally, was certainly unlikely. Despite the uphill battle, this man fought his way to success.

President Truman was faced with the challenges of leading the world out of the Second World War. The horrors of Nazism would influence his developing foreign policy.

Opinion polling during presidential elections seems to be more pervasive than ever. Does America need a minimum daily requirement of political polls in election years?

The seventh and final stage of a personal growth plan is legacy, that which is left behind.

Douglas MacArthur had the most brilliant military career in U.S. history. An unexpected final campaign that he seemed to have won ultimately did him in.

The National Security Act of 1947 completely reshaped the military structure and intelligence community of the United States and directly effected American foreign policy

In 1797 George Washington set a precedent that would be followed for 143 years. He retired from office after two terms. Franklin Roosevelt broke the tradition.

Many U.S. Presidential elections have turned on a single phrase or theme that resonated with the voting public. Some were calculated; others surprised even the winners.

What makes a U. S. president? There is no job description, but a look at presidents of the past century reveals both common ingredients and anomalies.

Out of the last 22 vice presidents, all but three had prior experience serving in government in Washington, D.C. The least experienced resigned after criminal charges.

Everyone has done it. Written a letter we wish we could take back. A letter written in anger or sorrow. Albert Einstein wrote a letter just like that in 1939.

Jon Meacham's "American Lion" offers an intimate look at Andrew Jackson's family and inner circle while assessing his Presidency.

On every trip, there's a moment when architecture catches a traveler's eye, and the thought comes, "I wonder what that building is."

Following the Brown v Board of Education case, the growing Civil Rights Movement found support among white Americans confronted by a contradiction to equality & justice.

They were not famous at the time, but history would remember these writers, actors, politicans and popes more for what they would accomplish later than for the war.

For most of the 20th century, Life magazine exerted a significant influence on American life, with its mainstream, conservative views and pages of captions and pictures.

Each November since 1989, two turkeys have been granted presidential pardons. This pardon, with a somewhat mysterious history, keeps two turkeys off the chopping block.

Today's US Census is a far cry from its humble beginnings some 2500 years ago. And it's still evolving.

President Obama shares ancestors with seven other presidents and two kings, but so do thousands of Americans who descend from colonial families.

David Pietrusza offers an excellent account of the groundbreaking 1960 presidential campaign and election.

Hoping to throw the election of 1948 into the House of Representatives, Southern "Dixiecrats" mobilized to stop federal anti-segregationist legislation.

62 Years ago today the Japanese Emperor's Tram Girls, some as young as 14, worked desperately to bring their city back from devastation.

Harry Truman led a senate committee investigating waste, profiteering, and negligence in the defense industry during World War II.

Truman's re-election stunned a young polling industry. The pollsters blew it, experts questioned their procedures, and the public pondered the value of political polls.

A brief examination of Harry S. Truman's efforts to take on the American Presidency following the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Forty-five percent of American Presidents were either Presbyterian or Episcopalian. Other faith traditions included evangelical churches, Deists, and one Catholic.

Helen Keller has ousted Confederate officer Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall collection, but the building abounds in Confederate heroes.

During George Gallup's career, he did not miss the mark too often as he predicted future U.S. presidents. But, in the 1948 election, he blew it and was nearly ruined.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is surely one of the most important political figures of the twentieth century, whether one agrees with his policies or not.

Churchill first spoke of the Iron Curtain in a small college gymnasium in Fulton, Missouri. A museum and a sculpture by Churchill's granddaughter commemorate the visit.

Viewers with vision or hearing loss can watch six Closed-captioned "American Experience" biographies, including FDR, offered with Descriptive Video Service, online.

Students that memorize the presidents by their term in office can more easily relate key events and concepts in American History and better understand cause and effect.

Obama celebrations will cost $50 million dollars at a time when over 2.6 million Americans have lost their jobs and the highest unemployment rate in sixteen years.

Imagine the sense of history you could get from viewing a Synagogue Roll, circa 12th or 13th century or a Latin Bible from 1469.

Steve Gilbert is a 76-year-old father of three who avoided the Korean War draft by volunteering for the U.S. Army and working in the Medical Corps.

In his debut best-selling novel, Glenn Cooper flirts with an ingenious plot which ventures onto the verge of stark realism and has the reader questioning their own fate.

Called "His Accidency" by his critics, John Tyler was born in Virginia in 1790.

Truman was a complex man and the man that will be judged by time for using Nuclear weapons "The Manhattan Project" for the first time.

Want to know interesting facts about United States coins? Here is a collection of interesting trivia facts about American metal currency.

The World War II Chief of Staff successfully managed a two-front world conflict, attempted to make peace in China, then led U.S. responses to post-war challenges.

There are witnesses to Lincoln's ghost in the White House and other places. It is said that in April his funeral train has been witnessed on its way to Illinois.

Extremist reactions to Barack Obama's presidency comes out of a long tradition of opposition to government and a fear of change.

Abraham Lincoln was the only American president elected from Illinois. Here are some comparisons of the state's two latest presidential candidates: Obama and Stevenson.