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	Harry S. Truman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Truman was born on May 8, 1884, in Lamar, Missouri, the eldest child of John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen Young Truman.
		Truman's candidacy was humorously dubbed the Second "Missouri Compromise" at the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, as his appeal to the party center contrasted with the liberal Wallace and the too conservative Brynes.
		Truman, who had been a supporter of the Zionist movement as early as 1939, was a key figure in the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Truman (7712 words)

	Harry Truman - MSN Encarta
		Truman initiated the foreign policy of containing Communism, a policy that was the hallmark of the Cold War.
		Truman did not begin regular school until he was eight, and by then he was wearing thick glasses to correct extreme nearsightedness.
		Truman sailed for France on March 30, 1918, and as a recently promoted captain was given command of Battery D, a rowdy and unmanageable group known as the Dizzy D. Truman succeeded in taming his unit, and the Dizzy D distinguished itself in the battles of Saint-Mihiel and Argonne.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557001/Truman_Harry_S.html (829 words)

	Biography- Harry Truman - AOL Research & Learn
		Truman was thus brought face-to-face with inflation, a steep rise in the cost of living, and a new militancy on the part of labor unions, which had conformed to wartime pledges against strikes.
		Truman's unyielding policy made it possible for George Marshall, in charge of economic affairs in the State Department, and George Kennan, supervising policy planning, to carry through Congress the epochal Marshall Plan for the transfer of massive economic aid from the free nations of the West to beleaguered countries in Europe and Asia.
		Truman died on December 26, 1972 and was buried in the courtyard of the Truman Library.
	reference.aol.com /history/biography/_a/harry-truman/20050413141309990002 (1983 words)

	KWCC Biography - Truman
		Truman forced settlements between labor and management in the mining and railroad industries, and allowed substantial wage increases in the auto and steel industries.
		Truman’s tough stand against Communism (at home and abroad), his vetoes of the Taft-Hartley Act and proposed tax cuts, his berating of the Republican-dominated 80th “do nothing” Congress, and the president’s celebrated “whistle-stop” tours are considered the important factors in turning the 1948 election in his favor.
		Without excessive hyperbole, Truman in his veto message denounced the act as “the greatest danger to freedom of the press, speech, and assembly since the Sedition Acts of 1798.” Truman’s veto of this popular bill was little short of heroic.
	korea50.army.mil /history/biographies/truman.shtml (2016 words)

	American President
		Truman served one term, was defeated for a second, and then became presiding judge in 1926, a position he held until 1934.
		Truman won the presidential nomination of a severely divided Democratic party in the summer of 1948 and faced New York’s Republican governor Thomas Dewey in the general election.
		Truman’s popularity sank during his second term, due largely to accusations of corruption, charges that the administration was “soft on communism,” and the stalemated Korean War.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/harrytruman (1662 words)

	Harry S. Truman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Quite naturally, Truman was initially preoccupied with foreign policy: the Allied conference in Potsdam, the conclusion of the war in Europe, and then in August, with the decision to use atomic weapons against Japan.
		She drew fire from some liberals for supporting the Korean War and for backing the Truman Doctrine, yet it was clear to any astute observer that ER was willing to break with the administration over public policy issues on which they disagreed.
		Truman tried to swing the convention in favor of Averell Harriman, while ER continued to support her old friend Adlai Stevenson—Stevenson won the nomination.
	www.gwu.edu /~erpapers/abouteleanor/q-and-a/glossary/truman-harry.htm (1122 words)

	Truman and US Support for Israel
		Truman was inexperienced in foreign affairs and initially felt he was out of his league and crushed by the burden of his new office and responsibilities.
		Truman regarded Bevin's speech as a personal, undiplomatic and "almost hostile" affront to himself, and was probably influenced in favor of partition by this speech.
		Truman had apparently in fact approved a draft of this plan in February 1948, and UN delegates understood from a speech made by UN delegate Warren Austin, on February 24, that the US might be abandoning partition and seeking a trusteeship solution.
	www.mideastweb.org /US_SupportforState.htm (6391 words)

	Harry S. Truman
		Truman, for example, when finally briefed on the atomic bomb a couple weeks after he entered office, was presented a 23-page memo from Secretary of War H. Stimson explaining what the atomic bomb was, and how it worked.
		Truman was in fact the President who setup structure of the present intelligence system, and made it a tool for use by future Presidents.
		Taking Truman’s statements to Moseley, or the Truman Library’s statements at face value would mean that Truman was totally out of the loop on the flying saucers that were being written about in newspapers during his administration.
	www.presidentialufo.com /harrys.htm (4432 words)

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		To make this decision Truman had to wave aside concerns about postblast radiation, which was an unknown quantity at that time, and even the possibility of an unstoppable chain reaction in the atmosphere which would destroy the world.
		Truman had richly earned the nickname "Pendergast's Bellhop" and won the election in the fall on stuffed ballots in Kansas City of which he won all but 11,000 of the 148,000 votes.
		Various communist spy rings were exposed in the Truman administration and both the secrets to the atom bomb and the hydrogen bomb were carelessly lost to the Soviets.This lack of security has made the world an infinitely more dangerous place the last 50 years.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/6315/truman.html (2931 words)

	Electronic Encyclopaedia of Civil Defense and Emergency Management
		Truman believed civil defense was a state and local responsibility, even though there was interest from these levels of government in Federal leadership.
		Administrator Millard Caldwell lacked a Civil Defense background and is reported to have had some difficulty in working effectively with legislators, a surprising situation given his prior service as a Congressman and Governor.
		Administration staff could not describe how they arrived at the projected budget request, for what the money would be used, or the operational benefit in terms of lives saved.
	www.richmond.edu /~wgreen/Ecdtruman.htm (1148 words)

	The Presidency of Harry S. Truman
		During the Roosevelt administration the American state system had changed dramatically: the federal government had rapidly become ascendant over state and local governments, and the executive branch--particularly the presidency--had become a repository of vast power.
		As a seasoned politician and officeholder, Truman's overall goals were clear from the beginning of his presidency, and he pursued them, though not without some confusion, throughout his two terms in the White House.
		This boldly stated assessment of the Truman administration's enormous influence on the nation and the world will be of interest to all students of American history.
	www.kansaspress.ku.edu /mcctru.html (414 words)

	American Experience \| Truman \| Teacher's Guide
		Truman's daughter Margaret has not only written biographies of both of her parents (see the Annotated Bibliography in Educator Resources), but she has also become a leading writer of mysteries.
		Truman did not have a middle name, but he did have a middle initial.
		Truman explained that the S was a compromise tribute to his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/truman/tguide/tg_didyou.html (736 words)

	Truman Library Student Research File
		Each topic is focused on an event or issue from Truman's life and presidency and contains between 500 and 1500 pages of documents selected from the Truman Library's collections by its archives staff.
		The Truman Administration's Civil Rights Program: The Report of the Committee on Civil Rights, and President Truman's Message to Congress of February 2, 1948.
		The Truman Doctrine and the Beginning of the Cold War, 1947-49.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /bfiles.htm (1264 words)

	Documentary History of the Truman Presidency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Truman envisioned the CIA’s assignment as "the collection of intelligence reports from all sources and their conveyance to the President in their natural raw state and in as comprehensive a volume as he could handle, free of departmental treatment or interpretations, so that he could do his own thinking and evaluating."
		Truman’s second term was beset by minor scandals and revelations of corruption.
		President Truman’s nonchalance when he received information of malfeasance, his efforts to shield his friends, and his habit of trying to "brazen it out" were rooted in his experience with the corrupt Pendergast political machine in Kansas City.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/2upa/Aph/TrumanDocumentary.asp (5282 words)

	The Laskers in the Truman Administration
		Truman's Sep. 6, 1945 message to Congress, reportedly the first to address health, was a reflection of their influence.
		He "advised Truman on various matters and helped prepare his speeches, especially during the 1948 campaign," and also assisted in the 1952 campaign.
		Truman felt that there was need for further study of the health needs of the Nation and set up a Presidential commission with that title, essentially.
	www.smokershistory.com /truman.htm (1657 words)

	Reassessing Public Opinion Polling in the Truman Administration - Questia Online Library
		Truman remains an aberration in the development of presidential polling, using fewer polls than Franklin Roosevelt and presidents who served subsequent to Truman.
		However, Truman's presidency perpetuated and advanced the polling apparatus, given new evidence showing poll consultation in the Truman administration.
		Truman himself is also often quoted as negatively referring to polling and pollsters and disavowing the usefulness and accuracy of polls.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=5001942360 (372 words)

	Harry S. Truman: Presidency
		On the death (Apr. 12, 1945) of Roosevelt, Truman succeeded to the presidency.
		Truman had instituted (1947) a loyalty program for civil servants, but the government came under increasing attack for loose security, particularly after the conviction of Alger
		Harry Truman, lost and found: ever since he was a young boy, Harry S. Truman depended upon his spectacles.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0861642.html (822 words)

	The Harry Truman Administration Table of Contents
		Truman Statment on the Anglo-American Committee of Injury
		Truman Statement on Resolution for the Relief of Palestine Refugees (3/24/49)
		Truman Statement on the UN Economic Survey Mission to the Middle East
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/US-Israel/Trumantoc.html (305 words)

	The Recognition of the State of Israel: Documents
		President Truman meeting on May 8, 1951 with Prime Minister David Ben Gurion of Israel and Abba Eban.
		They presented the menora as a token of esteem for President Truman's timely recognition of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948.
		Memo addressed to President Truman urging a pro-Zionist policy for Palestine in order to open the country to unrestricted Jewish immigration and to create a Jewish state, May 28, 1945 (2 pages)
	www.trumanlibrary.org /whistlestop/study_collections/israel/large/docs.php (1542 words)

	Truman Topics
		Each topic includes between 500 and 1000 pages of copies of documents from the Truman Library's holdings selected by the archives staff as being the most important documents on its subject.
		The files are located in the Library's research room, which is open Monday through Friday from 8:45 a.m.
		The Truman Scandals: The Presidential Confronts a Political Crisis, 1951-1952.
	www.esuhistoryprof.com /truman_topics.htm (530 words)

	Harry S Truman - 32nd President of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Harry S Truman - 32nd President of the United States
		Harry S. Truman and the War Scare of 1948: A Successful Campaign to Deceive the Nation
		Truman White House Tapes from the Miller Center of Public Affairs
	www.presidentsusa.net /truman.html (253 words)

	American Experience \| The Presidents \| Harry S. Truman \| PBS
		Born: May 8, 1884; Lamar, Missouri...On October 5, 1947, Truman delivered the first presidential address to be televised from the White House...
		You have to keep on riding or be swallowed." Harry Truman's assessment of the office accurately described the conditions under which he found himself thrust into it.
		To the little-known man from Missouri would fall the burden of ending a World War and asserting the U.S.'s leadership in a newly-aligned and hostile international environment...Died: December 26, 1972.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/presidents/33_truman/index.html (171 words)

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