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	Truman: HST Biography
		Truman was promoted to Captain and given command of the regiment's Battery D. He and his unit saw action in the Vosges, Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne campaigns.
		Truman was elected in 1922, to be one of three judges of the Jackson County Court.
		Central to almost everything Truman undertook in his foreign policy was the desire to prevent the expansion of the influence of the Soviet Union.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /hst-bio.htm (1114 words)

	Harry S. Truman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Truman ( May 8, 1884 â“ December 26, 1972) was the thirty-fourth ( 1945) Vice President and the thirty-third ( 1945 â“ 1953) President of the United States, succeeding to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
		Truman's presidency was very eventful, seeing the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the end of World War II, the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, the beginning of the Cold War, the desegregation of the U.S. armed forces, the formation of the United Nations, the second red scare, and most of the Korean War.
		Truman was a folksy, unassuming president, and popularized phrases such as " The buck stops here " and "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." He exceeded the low expectations many had at the beginning of his administration, and developed a reputation as a strong, capable leader.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_S._Truman (3607 words)

	President Truman and Duck Key
		Truman began visiting the Florida Keys in November of 1946 when a White House physician decreed a vacation was in order so that the President might rid himself of a persistent cold and cough.
		Truman held court early each morning with a 30 minute brisk walk just as he did when he was President.
		Truman's bedroom, the second bed was used for the president's daughter, Margaret.
	www.duckkeyonline.com /duck_key_history/truman_and_duck_key.htm (1332 words)

	Harry S. Truman
		President Harry Truman is the first President to have to deal with the UFO phenomena publicly.
		The president said he hadn't give much serious thought to all these reports; but at the same time, he said, if there was any evidence of a strategic threat to the national security, the collection and evaluation of UFO data by Central Intelligence warranted more intense study and attention at the highest government level.
		President Truman the head of the National Security Council, after the July UFO over flights of the White House, was eager to have the potential threat of the UFOs analyzed.
	www.presidentialufo.com /harrys.htm (4432 words)

	Public Programs - Truman Presidential Museum & Library
		President Truman’s office in the north wing of the Truman Library is a unique national treasury, filled with irreplaceable and personal artifacts that help us understand the plain-spoken president from Missouri, now ranked among the five greatest U.S. leaders of all time.
		Truman Library Institute Honorary Fellows and members of the Buck Stops Here Society are admitted at no charge to all events.
		The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum is one of twelve Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /programs.htm (635 words)

	Truman Library - Assassination Attempt
		(The Truman family stayed in the Blair House during renovation of the White House from 1948 to 1952).
		President Truman was taking a nap upstairs in Blair House when the shooting began.
		President Carter commuted the life sentence of Collazo in September 1979, and he was freed from prison.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /trivia/assassin.htm (396 words)

	Biography of Harry S Truman
		Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, in 1884.
		Active in the Democratic Party, Truman was elected a judge of the Jackson County Court (an administrative position) in 1922.
		Truman kept the war a limited one, rather than risk a major conflict with China and perhaps Russia.
	www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/ht33.html (587 words)

	President Truman - AskTheBrain.com
		President Harry Truman established the NSA in 1952 in a presidential directive that remains classified to this day.
		These tremendous casualty rates were the impetus for President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
		President Truman's actions helped put an end to segregation in the military but did not serve immediately to desegregate the armed forces.
	www.askthebrain.com /president_truman-.html (293 words)

	Harry S Truman Birthplace State Historic Site - Home - Missouri State Parks and Historic Sites, MoDNR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Born May 8, 1884, in a downstairs bedroom of a small frame house in Lamar, Harry Truman was the son of John Anderson and Martha Ellen (Young) Truman.
		The Truman birthplace, which the family occupied until Harry was 11 months old, was built between 1880 and 1882.
		The Trumans purchased the 20- by 28-foot house as newlyweds in 1882 for $685.
	www.mostateparks.com /trumansite.htm (213 words)

	President Truman's Obituary
		Although it was understood that the President's name was included on the official list of persons invited to attend the funeral, it was expected that, in keeping with the subdued and private nature of the ceremony, he would not stay overnight for the funeral service and burial.
		Truman's condition was termed "fair." The next night, however, he became critically ill when his blood pressure dropped to 80/60, his pulse soared to 120 beats a minute, his temperature rose to 102.83 degrees and his breathing became labored.
		Truman's condition was changed from "very serious" to "critical" and his doctor's and nurse's began to monitor him almost constantly, particularly as his breathing became labored, his kidney output decreased, fluid built in his lungs and his heart began to flutter.
	starship.python.net /crew/manus/Presidents/hst/hstobit.html (1779 words)

	President Harry Truman : Health & Medical History
		As a child, Truman was diagnosed with a rare eye problem, "flat eyeballs." He wore thick glasses beginning at age eight, after his mother noticed he was able to see the large print in the family Bible, but unable to see objects at a distance.
		Wallace Graham, recalled: "whenever President Truman would get into tight pinches, or really clutched up, he would have a little bubbling in the lungs, and he would have a little rale [a lung sound often caused by fluid in the lungs] at the base of his lungs" [6].
		Truman had fallen on ice during one of his morning walks about a year after his gall bladder operation, with no serious consequences.
	www.doctorzebra.com /prez/g33.htm (1604 words)

	Today in History: January 5
		Truman had begun to push for Fair Deal-type legislation following the end of World War II in 1945.
		During Truman's presidency, concern over the potential spread of communism and the growing influence of the Soviet Union underlay much of his Administration’s foreign policy.
		Truman left office in 1953, but his committee's report became a blueprint for the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jan05.html (750 words)

	Presidents: Harry Truman
		Truman was having a drink in the office of Senate Speaker Sam Rayburn when he was summoned to the White House on April 12, 1945.
		The day after assuming the Presidency, Truman stated to a reporter, "I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me." Truman became President less than a month before the end of the war in Europe.
		Truman responded by announcing the Truman Doctrine, which stated, "I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."
	www.multied.com /bio/presidents/truman.html (932 words)

	Experience Kansas City - Harry S Truman
		In addition, "Truman," an HBO film which debuted in late 1995, chronicled the man, his achievements and his involvement with important leaders, including corrupt Kansas City political boss Tom Pendergast.
		Truman's association with Pendergast, however, made him out to be a tool of the machine in the eyes of many.
		Truman went on to the US Senate in 1935 and the vice presidency in 1944.
	www.experiencekc.com /truman.html (1427 words)

	Truman's Trials Resonate for Bush - washingtonpost.com
		Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) went public with an account of a meeting last Friday in which he said the president seemed to be comparing his situation to that of Truman in the late 1940s.
		That speech was followed by repeated references to the Democratic 33rd president during the fall campaign, usually as part of cutting attacks on the party of Truman, which Bush said had become the "party of cut and run" in Iraq.
		But Greenstein said he has been struck by parallels between the two presidents, including their feistiness, the fact that neither seemed up to the job in their early months in office, that both had responses to crises that made them seem more presidential and that both saw their approval levels drop after stalemated wars.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/14/AR2006121401683.html (1243 words)

	Astrocartography of President Truman's Least-aspected Saturn
		Vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman succeeded to the presidency after F.D.R.’s death on April 12, 1945, and he was suddenly confronted with the burden of several “significant responsibilities” (Primary Saturn), such as the task of ending World War II and of planning the economic reconstruction of Europe.
		Truman’s administration bore the brunt of Republican criticism when Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist forces, which had received little substantial backing from the president, were forced to withdraw from the mainland to the island of Taiwan.
		Truman biographer David McCullough tells of how Captain Truman, taking command of a particularly wild group of soldiers (the “Dizzy D” Battalion of the 129th Field Artillery) “had transformed what had been generally considered the worst battery in the regiment to what was clearly one of the best.”2
	www.dominantstar.com /b_tru.htm (1292 words)

	Amazon.com: Truman: Books: David McCullough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Truman was a compromise candidate for vice president, almost an accidental president after Roosevelt's death 12 weeks into his fourth term.
		Truman's stunning come-from-behind victory in the 1948 election showed how his personal qualities of integrity and straightforwardness were appreciated by ordinary Americans, perhaps, as McCullough notes, because he was one himself.
		His presidency was dominated by enormously controversial issues: he dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, established anti-Communism as the bedrock of American foreign policy, and sent U.S. troops into the Korean War.
	www.amazon.com /Truman-David-McCullough/dp/0671869205 (1157 words)

	Harry S. Truman — Infoplease.com
		Elected vice president in 1944, Truman became president upon Roosevelt's sudden death in April 1945 and was immediately faced with the problems of winding down the war against the Axis and preparing the nation for postwar adjustment.
		The years 1947–48 were distinguished by civil-rights proposals, the Truman Doctrine to contain the spread of Communism, and the Marshall Plan to aid in the economic reconstruction of war-ravaged nations.
		Truman's second term was primarily concerned with the cold war with the Soviet Union, the implementing of the North Atlantic Pact, the United Nations police action in Korea, and the vast rearmament program with its accompanying problems of economic stabilization.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0760617.html (633 words)

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		The diary entries reveal that, sadly, President Truman was indeed a man of his times, and that much less a man because of it.
		While President Truman's personal thoughts about Jews are in some sense a reflection of those times, it is shocking to learn that this great American leader and statesman was afflicted with the same disease of anti-Semitism that was mirrored by larger society.
		Regardless of his personal beliefs, President Truman will be remembered for his support and recognition of the homeland of the Jews, the State of Israel.
	www.adl.org /presrele/asus_12/4279_12.asp (351 words)

	President Truman - Log of President Truman's Eighth Visit to Key West, Florida, 12 March-10 April 1950.
		President Truman - Log of President Truman's Eighth Visit to Key West, Florida, 12 March-10 April 1950.
		Since the VCR did not exist then, and since Truman was the President, they were able to watch relatively new movies from the privacy of the Little White House.
		While Truman did not often watch the movies, on this particular trip he watched Cheaper by the Dozen, a comedy with Myrna Loy, and Champagne for Caesar, a comedy based on the popular TV quiz shows.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /calendar/travel_log/key1947/eighthtrip_toc.htm (190 words)

	President Harry Truman Wipes Out Military Segregation (Educational Materials: African American Odyssey)
		Harry S. Truman was the first president to issue an executive order to enforce a civil rights issue;
		In 1941, after much agitation from A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Association, and other influential African Americans, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order banning racial discrimination in defense industries and the government.
		As a result of President Roosevelt's actions, African Americans for the first time began receiving flight instructions at Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, a campus established by Booker T. Washington.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/odyssey/educate/truman.html (364 words)

	Leo Szilard, Interview: President Truman Did Not Understand
		The petition was sent to the President through official channels, and I should not be too surprised if it were discovered one of these days that it hadn't ever reached him.
		Perhaps you remember that in 1939 President Roosevelt warned the belligerents against using bombs against the inhabited cities, and this I thought was perfectly fitting and natural.
		Truman announced the bombing of Hiroshima while he was at sea coming back from Potsdam, and his announcement contained the phrase - I quote from the New York "Times" of August 7, 1945: "We have spent 2 billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history - and won."
	www.peak.org /~danneng/decision/usnews.html (2986 words)

	American History: Truman Faced Communist Fears, Real or Imagined (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Truman named General Dwight Eisenhower to be supreme commander of the new organization.
		President Truman believed that other problems in the world could be settled by cooperative international efforts.
		President Truman believed the United States would be stronger if its allies were stronger.
	www.voanews.com /specialenglish/2007-01-31-voa1.cfm (1286 words)

	Truman Trivia - Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum & Library
		Was Truman the 32nd or 33rd President of the United States?
		This portion of the website was researched and written by Cynthia Edwards and designed by Lori Schwartz, as part of the Internship Program at the Truman Library.
		The Harry S. Truman Library is one of ten Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration
	www.trumanlibrary.org /trivia/trivpg.htm (309 words)

	Truman’s Motivations: Using the Atomic Bomb in the Second World War
		before Truman, also shared this view: “[The] President began to deal with atomic energy as an integral part of his general diplomacy, linking and encompassing both the current wartime situation and the shape of postwar affairs” (Sherwin, 84).
		Roosevelt had not kept Truman informed of his foreign policy; therefore, when Truman became president he lacked his own foreign policy, and consequently adopted the foreign policy of his advisors.
		This is undeniable proof that Truman was aware of the possible ramifications for failing to alter the terms of unconditional surrender.
	www.johnwcooper.com /papers/atomicbombtruman.htm (5148 words)

	ATOMIC BOMB: DECISION (Hiroshima-Nagasaki)
		Setting the Test Date, July 2, 1945 - President Truman had delayed his meeting with Stalin until the atomic bomb could be tested.
		Truman Diary, July 25, 1945 - President Truman told his diary that he had ordered the bomb dropped on a "purely military" target, so that "military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children."
		Truman radio speech, August 9, 1945 (excerpt) - In his radio speech to the nation on August 9, President Truman called Hiroshima "a military base." This is a 50k (.AU format) audio file.
	www.dannen.com /decision (946 words)

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