In 1951, President Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the U.S. and Germany.
President Truman put it well, describing his decision to formally recognize Israel only minutes after it declared independence.
In 1945, President Truman signed an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom.
In 1950, an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate U.S. President Truman was made by two members of a Puerto Rican nationalist movement.
He wrote to President Truman on eight occasions, praising American anti-colonialism and looking forward to happy relations between Vietnam and the United States.
Since its inception under President Truman, the Council's function has been to advise and assist the President on national security and foreign policies.
At the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, then-President Truman divulged to Stalin that the United States had a new weapon capable of tremendous destruction.
The term was popularized by a public relations firm working for the American Medical Association in 1947 to disparage President Truman's proposal for a national health care system.
Harry Truman -- President Truman once described the end of a war as "a solemn but glorious honor -- excuse me -- "a solemn but glorious hour.
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In 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
President Truman in the early postwar years had chopped defense spending to the bone, so we fought the first two Korean years living off quartermaster stores leftovers from World War II.
In 1948, Campanella joined Robinson on the Dodgers. (President Truman integrated the Armed Forces the same year.) It was hardly fair, to put it mildly, that so much pressure was exerted on one man.
Two pivotal events followed: President Truman, a Democrat, integrated the armed forces in 1948, and another Democratic president, Lyndon Johnson, aided by a number of Republican lawmakers, enacted the Civil Rights Act in 1964.
But when President Truman was reelected in 1948 and began exploring his own health insurance reforms, Whitaker and Baxter were retained by the American Medical Association to take their California success to a national level.
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In fact, he probably has done more to explain NSA to an otherwise ignorant body politic than any other author since the agency was established in a secret executive order signed by President Truman 60 years ago.
But, as the Supreme Court told President Truman when he attempted to use an executive order to place all steel factories under control of the federal government, executive orders may not be used to make laws, only to execute them.
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The heroes of the blockade turned out to be Bevin, President Truman and Clay, the American proconsul who created the airlift which succeeded in supplying Berlin in the face of a belief within the Pentagon that Berlin could not be sustained by air.
To the disappointment of those hoping for some of the real argument which has been missing from the campaign so far, neither candidate had anything new to say, nor did they strike any sparks off each other in the hard-hitting tradition of President Truman.
Following the end of World War II, President Truman issued an Executive Order to standardize the Presidential Seal, and the Coat of Arms was modified so that the eagle faces to its right, the direction of honor, and also toward the olive branch, a symbol of peace, rather than toward the arrows which represent war.
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As historian Fred Siegel has noted, the Kennedy phenomena differed greatly--in both style and substance--from the "lunch pail" liberalism epitomized by President Harry Truman and, to an extent, that of both Lyndon Johnson and his vice president, Hubert Humphrey.
In 1950, U.S. President Harry Truman announced he had ordered the development of the hydrogen bomb.
In fact, we have the original statement by President Harry Truman on display here today.
President Harry Truman's Secretary of State Dean Acheson entitled his memoirs of the era, Present at the Creation.
Facing a strike that could choke the economy, President Harry Truman intervened through the War Labor Disputes Act.
President Harry Truman came to exactly that point when he fired MacArthur in the middle of the Korean War.
President Harry Truman was right to commit the U.S. (under the cover of the United Nations) to defend South Korea.
He performed for every US president since Harry Truman, the 33rd President of the United States who was in office from 1945-1953.
After the war, he told me, President Harry Truman asked him if people were saying unpleasant things to him because of the bomb.
The ceremony was also attended by a grandson of former US President Harry Truman, who ordered the bombing of Hiroshima and then Nagasaki.
The longest-serving Fed chairman in history was William McChesney Martin , who was appointed by President Harry Truman and held the job for nearly 19 years, until 1970.
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