He was simply trying to buy votes just as the
democrats are doing now. And it works, 90% of blacks still vote democratic.
There were so many things at stake that President Truman took all the blame.
General Douglas MacArthur, who said some things that President Harry S. Truman told him not to say.
Yes, there are several things that happened on the 30th of November that is noteworthy. In 1950, President Truman said that he was prepared to authorize the use of atomic weapons if that is what it will take to achieve peace in Korea.
President Truman decided that the United States would offer assistance to any nation threatened by communism. The Soviet Union would not be allowed to expand further. This policy came to be known as the Truman Doctrine
The following things happened in history today (30th of November), Pink Floyd released "The Wall" in 1979, President Truman announced he would authorize the use of atomic weapons to achieve peace in Korea (1950), and in 1993, the Brady Bill was signed into law by President Clinton.On November 30th, 1782, Britain signed an agreement recognizing U.S. independence.
No, he was President of the United States, but as with many things it depends on perspective. Americans remember Truman with fondness and respect as the man who ended World War II. There are many Japanese families who have a different viewpoint.
get rid of obama, get a conservative president, and start rebuilding things in the U.S.
The seizure of the nation's steel mills by President Harry Truman was declared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court. This decision brought to the forefront two opposing views about the US Constitution. Truman's view was that a president had legal authority, inherent in the Constitution to act on his own to protect the nation. This meant on both international and domestic affairs. President Lincoln used this "authority" many times during the US Civil War. However, the Court saw things differently in Truman's day. In this case, no situation, no matter how dire, can be a cause to violate the Constitution.
no it not.my question was "what major things happened during harry s. truman presidency?
Most likely Franklin D. Roosevelt in the last couple months of his life. He had authorized the program to build them and kept both the project and plans for possible use classified at such a high level that none of his Vice Presidents knew anything about it. Even Harry S. Truman knew nothing of it until several hours after being sworn in as President following Franklin D. Roosevelt's death.After his briefing on the status of the project and Franklin D. Roosevelt's plans (which the military was already beginning to incorporate into their war preparations for the invasions of Japan) Harry S. Truman obviously saw no need to change anything and simply allowed things to proceed just as they would have had not Franklin D. Roosevelt died.Harry S. Truman's one real action on the atomic bomb was to cancel the existing authorization for the usage of the atomic bomb, following the Japanese announcing they were willing to surrender.
He was the first president who was catholic, He established peacecorps organization,He held art concerts and music festivals.
Yes, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, proposed in 1933, was a series of programs that were intended to help the country recover from the devastation created by the Great Depression. It included things such as jobs programs and emergency relief programs.