Here are the televised inaugural addresses since Harry Truman’s 1949 address, beginning with the most recent:
Take for example the quip byAbraham Lincoln, “If I were two faced, would I be wearing this one?” Or this from Harry Truman, “My choice in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth there’s hardly any difference”. And, before ...
FILE - A portion of a page from a Harry Truman’s 1947 presidential diary is shown at the National Archives in Washington, July 10, 2003. Presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden have kept presidential diaries. In them, they confide in themselves, express raw opinions, trace even t...
the Teddy bear, since he refused to shoot a bear cub tied to a tree. To recover from the deaths of his mother and his first wife, who both died on the same day, he went to the Dakota Territory and became a cowboy for two years. After being shot in the chest by an assassin, ...
7. Harry Truman (1945-1953) AFP/Getty Images Truman wins praise from historians for his foreign policy leadership. Though unpopular when he left office, he has grown more highly regarded by historians over the years. After V-E Day, when Japan refused to surrender, he ordered that atomic bom...
Harry S. Truman May 8, 1884 1945–1953 Democratic Dwight D. Eisenhower October 14, 1890 1953–1961 Republican John F. Kennedy May 29, 1917 1961–1963 (assassinated) Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson August 27, 1908 1963–1969 Democratic Richard Nixon January 9, 1913 1969–1974 (resigned) Republic...
harry truman age: 68 years, 8 months following the death of president franklin d. roosevelt in april of 1945, harry truman, his vice president, ascended to the highest office in the country and went on to serve another term before leaving the white house in 1953. a flurry of action ...
Born in 1884,Harry S. Trumanlived through economic depression and two World Wars. By the time he took office in 1945 at 61, though, the worst of these conflicts had passed. Truman, later alongside vice president Alben W. Barkley, would instead face international tension in the form of the...
Harry S. Truman Truman, the 33rd president, was grand master and 33rd degree Mason. Gerald R. Ford Ford, the 38th president, is the most recent to have been a Mason. He began with the fraternity in 1949. No president since Ford has been a Freemason....
The book is organized in a clear and straightforward fashion: all 12 presidents who have occupied the White House since the end of World War II receive their own separate chapter. Each of these chapters, roughly equal in length, consists of a biography with the president's religion as its ...