Mr. Truman emphasized this point by saying, `` You fellows in the Department of State don't know much about domestic politics ''.

In January 1947, Truman appointed General George Marshall as Secretary of State, and enacted JCS 1779, which decreed that an orderly and prosperous Europe requires the economic contributions of a stable and productive Germany.

However, in formulating policies regarding the atomic bomb and relations with the Soviets Truman was guided by the U. S. State Department and ignored Eisenhower and the Pentagon.

* Truman State University Index, the weekly student newspaper

Hoover kept the intercepts — America's greatest counterintelligence secret — in a locked safe in his office, choosing not to inform President Truman, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, or two Secretaries of State — Dean Acheson and General George Marshall — while they held office.

In January 1947, Truman appointed retired General George Marshall as Secretary of State.

From left to right, first row: Premier of the Soviet Union | Premier Joseph Stalin ; President Harry S. Truman, Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, and List of Russian foreign ministers | Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov.

Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters of the U. S. State Department since 1947

After Marshall's return to the U. S. in early 1947, Truman appointed Marshall Secretary of State.

May 15-Following a letter from the Agent of the new Provisional Government to President Truman, the United States recognized the provision government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

Initially, Truman named the Secretary of State as the ranking member of the Council in his absence and expected the Department of State to play the major role in formulating policy recommendations.

Truman directed the Secretary of the Treasury, John W. Snyder to attend all meetings and Congress amended the National Security Act of 1947 to eliminate the three service secretaries from Council membership and add the Vice President ( who assumed second rank from the Secretary of State ) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff who became permanent advisers to the Council.

As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War.

Later, in 1945, Harry S. Truman selected Acheson as his Undersecretary of United States Department of State ; he retained this position working under Secretaries of State Edward Stettinius, Jr., James F. Byrnes, and George Marshall.

This speculation died down when President Truman retained Acheson at the State Department.

As Secretary of State, Dulles still carried out the “ containment ” policy of neutralizing the Taiwan Strait during the Korean War, which had been established by President Truman in the Treaty of Peace with Japan of 1951.

Truman was critical of Secretary of State Byrnes, both over being " left in the dark " about the Moscow conference, and that Iran had not been on the agenda.

The city is perhaps best known as the location of Truman State University and A. T. Still University.

Not only the first postmaster, Kirk was also the first to own a hotel and a tavern in Kirksville ( contrary to popular belief, the name of the city has no connection to John Kirk, onetime president of Truman State University ).

* Truman State University, originally the North Missouri Normal School and Commercial College, and more recently Northeast Missouri State University.

Detweiler graduated from Kirksville Senior High School in 1972, and in 1982 he graduated from Truman State University ( formerly Northeast Missouri State University ) with a B. S.

* In 2006, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem awarded Colin Powell with the Truman Peace Prize for his efforts to conduct the " war against terrorism ," through diplomatic as well as military means, and to avert regional and civil conflicts in many parts of the world.

After World War II Eisenhower served as Chief of Staff under President Harry S. Truman, then assumed the post of President at Columbia University.

For a variety of reasons — bad economic times, a fire that destroyed the mens dormotory in 1896, and most of all the growth of the First District Normal School in Kirksville ( now Truman State University ) led Oaklawn to close in 1899.

* Stephanie Creed, Kelcie McLaughlin, Christina Miller, Vince Struble, Mexican Revolution 1910 – 1920, Latin American Revolutions, course material for History 328, Truman State University ( Missouri )

After graduating from high school, Norton went to Northeast Missouri State University ( now Truman State University ) on a football scholarship and studied elementary education.

Sandia Laboratory was operated by the University of California until 1949, when President Harry S. Truman asked Western Electric, a subsidiary of American Telephone and Telegraph ( AT & T ), to assume the operation as an " opportunity to render an exceptional service in the national interest.

* Albert Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire, translated and with an introduction by Gregory C. Richter, Truman State University Press, 2001.

At the time of his death he was married to Amber Johnson, an associate professor of anthropology at Truman State University who had worked with Binford as a research student at Southern Methodist University.

The University also has produced 30 Goldwater Scholars, 19 Truman Scholars, 5 members of USA Today's " All &# 8209 ; USA College Academic First Team ", and 2 winners of the Morris K. Udall Undergraduate Scholarship.

She graduated from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, where she won a Truman Scholarship, and was valedictorian.

Skelton was made an honorary brother of Phi Sigma Kappa at Truman State University.

* Truman State University

( Truman State University Press, July 1999 )

USD's Department of Political Science routinely attracts well-known speakers and produces students who garner top national awards such as the Truman Scholarship.

* Pierpaoli, Paul G. Truman and Korea: The Political Culture of the Early Cold War ( 1999 ) online edition

Political pressures from Congress forced President Harry S. Truman to act.

To further its behavioralist agenda, the SSRC set up various other committees — including, most notably, the Committee on Political Behavior, organized in 1945 by Pendelton Herring and headed at various times by David Truman, David Easton, and Robert Dahl, all of whom would serve as presidents of the American Political Science Association ; and the Committee on Comparative Politics, organized in 1953 and headed by Gabriel Almond and then Lucian Pye, both of whom also became APSA presidents.

Political pressures from Congress forced President Harry S. Truman to act.

The legislation creating the National Science Foundation was signed by President Harry S. Truman on May 10, 1950

* Bush, Vannevar, ( 1950 ) Science, the Endless Frontier, Report from the Director of the OSRD to President H. Truman

Bush issued his report to President Harry S. Truman in July 1945, entitled Science — The Endless Frontier.

; 1950: On May 10, President Truman signs Public Law 507, creating the National Science Foundation.

In the past 10 years, Macalester students have earned honors including Rhodes Scholarships, British Marshall Scholarships, Fulbright Scholarships, Foreign Government Grants, National Science Foundation Fellowships, Truman Scholarships, Watson Fellowships, Mellon Fellowships and Goldwater Scholarships.

In April 1951, Truman appointed Conant to the Science Advisory Committee.

He also served as president of the California Institute of Technology between 1946 and 1969, which he gave up to become the first presidential Science Advisor of two administrations: under President Harry S. Truman from 1953 to 1955, and under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970.

*" Truman Henry Safford ", Science, Volume 14, Issue 340 ( 1901 ), pp. 22-24, http :// adsabs. harvard. edu / cgi-bin / nph-data_query? bibcode = 1901Sci .... 14 ... 22J & link_type = EJOURNAL & db_key = GEN & high = 4e8047f40e10119

Included are seven selections to the USA Today All-Academic Team and nearly 150 Marshall, Rhodes, Truman, National Science Foundation, Fulbright, Goldwater, Madison, Cooke, Javits, Udall, and Knowles Science Teaching fellows and scholars — among others.

* President's Science Advisory Committee, an advising body to the U. S. President from Truman to Nixon

In September 1948, at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), U. S. President Harry Truman, with Condon sitting nearby on the dais, denounced Rep. Thomas and HUAC on the grounds that vital scientific research " may be made impossible by the creation of an atmosphere in which no man feels safe against the public airing of unfounded rumors, gossip and vilification.

Watson has served on the boards of many academic journals and presidential foundations, such as the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, Harry S. Truman Foundation, Western Social Science Association, International Abraham Lincoln Journal, The Social Science Journal, and others and was the founder and editor of the journal, White House Studies.