Harry Truman

Truman Capote died from liver failure. He was 59 years old. He died at the home of Johnny Carson's ex-wife Joanne, He was one of America's authors.

The Truman Doctrine was a policy based on a speech given by President Harry F. Truman to a joint session of the US Congress. In his speech, Truman told Congress that "it must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." The focus was on preventing the spread of Communism, especially in the countries of Greece and Turkey, but it effectively changed US Foreign Policy.

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Truman was born May 8, 1884, and died December 26, 1972, at age 88.

he had to decide whether or not to drop the atomic bomb on Japan

Margaret Truman

Medicare is the social program that president Truman proposed to America in 1949. This has since been changed a bit, but we have Medicare as a form of insurance for older people.

Harry S. Truman was a Democrat.

-Joel

Harry S Truman was president first off and isn't that really important? He changed the world. He got Japan to surrender when he brought bombs, he served in the army (captain), and he believed in civil rights. But I probably didn't mention ALL the great things that he did that was important. Not even close to all, but at least you have some info.

The dawning of the nuclear age, the end of World War 2, the start of the United Nations, Israel created, the Korean conflict, Mahatma Gandhi assassinated, Joseph Stalin died, People's Republic of China came into existence, Truman was also the first president to address the nation on TV.

HST was considered a reliable trustworthy person to be vice-president for a very sick man who was leading the country in a world war and FDR was probably going to die in his 4th term and they wanted someone whom they could trust. Andrew Johnson was a terrible vice-president after President Lincoln was shot and killed and they did not want another Andrew Johnson to follow FDR after he died.

The basic idea was to stop the spread of communism. The Truman Doctrine introduced a change in foreign policy from only involving the United States in conflicts that directly affect it to intervening on behalf of countries that are in danger of having their sovereignty threatened on by authoritarian states. The United States can intervene financially, militarily or both.

-Truman's fair deal only passed one reform, the housing act of 1849, which authorized 810,000 govt constructed houses over 6 yrs addressing the housing need of the poor. But only 61,000 units were built during trumans administration. Many fair deal reforms were civil rights reforms and federal health care, often rejected by the republican congress which was backed by the southern democrats. The anti-communist hysteria didn't help these reforms pass because these were similar to laws being passed in European nations.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was president when schools were legally desegregated in 1954. However, this came about due to the Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, not by Presidential order.

He was unpopular throughout much of his first term, and the mid-term elections in 1946 were a disaster. The fringe of the Democratic Party, led by Henry Wallace, split, as they angry over Truman's foreign policy and Wallace launched his own campaign. Then during the Democratic National Convention, the large number of (racist) Southern Democratics, nicknamed the "Dixiecrats", walked out after Northern Democrats successfully managed to get the party to support Civil Rights. Their leader, Sen. Strom Thurmond, also launched a campaign, hoping to take away votes from the solidly Democratic South. Together, Thurmond and Wallace took 5% of the vote, while Truman won 5% more of the votes than Dewey.

All polls and pundits had predicted that Truman would lose; the economy and domestic politics had been in a mess throughout his presidency. By the time election day came, it seemed no-one believed Truman could win apart from Truman himself. Even his wife thought he would lose, yet he continue to tell everyone he met he knew he could win.

The Truman doctrine and containment had on common threat, communism. The truman doctrine wanted to help any country threatened by commmunism. Containment was about stopping communism from spreading especially in the U.S.

liberal democrats preferred Henry Wallace

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Democrat

Theodore Roosevelt: Republican, except the election of 1912, in which he was with the Progressive / Bull Moose Party

When dealing with the Soviet Union, Kennedy believed in brinkmanship- pushing disputes to the brink of war and getting them to back down. Eisenhower was less aggressive, possibly because he had seen enough of war.

The stalemate with the Communist Chinese in the Korean conflict began to wear on the American people and cut into Truman's popularity. In addition, his 1951 firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur for insubordinate remarks about the conduct of the war was an unpopular move.

On the domestic side, Truman caused a controversy with his 1952 seizure of steel mills to prevent a strike by the steel industry. Although he justified the action by touting the president's inherent powers in time of emergency, it was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote.

Another problem developed when charges arose that several unnamed administration officials were Communists. This left the president vulnerable to charges that he was soft on Communism.

Truman announced in March 1952 that he would not stand for re-election. He left office on January 20, 1953 as one of the most unpopular presidents in history. His job approval rating of 22 percent in a February 1952 Gallup Poll was one of the lowest rankings ever.

Almost 60 years later, Truman's standing has rebounded considerably. He frequently is considered a "near-great" to "great" president in surveys of historians. In July, 2010, a Siena College poll of 238 presidential scholars ranked Truman ninth among the 43 men who have served as chief executive.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Not these days.

The Fair Deal.

The 33rd President of the United States was Harry S. Truman from April 12, 1945 to January 20, 1953.