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President Truman, in his 1951 message to Congress, predicted correctly that his military buildup “ will cause intense and mounting inflationary pressures .” Using the data provided by the United State Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erik Rauch has estimated productivity to have increased by nearly 400 %.
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Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.
* 1945 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office ; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
* 1950 – President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
* 1952 – U. S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
* 1948 – President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $ 5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
* 1949 – U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense.
* 1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
Capp had earlier provided the Shmoo for a special Children's Savings Bond in 1949, accompanying President Harry S. Truman at the bond's unveiling ceremony.
Their position was that Clinton should have integrated the military by executive order, noting that President Harry Truman used executive order to racially desegregate the armed forces.
On the morning of March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman appeared before Congress to ask for $ 400 million of aid to Greece and Turkey.
President Truman signing a proclamation declaring a national emergency that initiates U. S. involvement in the Korean War.
Clement Attlee ( left ) with President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the 1945 Potsdam Conference.
Li visited the President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, and denounced Chiang as a " dictator " and an " usurper.
After World War II Eisenhower served as Chief of Staff under President Harry S. Truman, then assumed the post of President at Columbia University.
President Truman even approached him, offering to serve as his Vice-President if he would agree to run as president on the Democratic ticket.
President Truman, symbolizing a broad based desire for an Eisenhower candidacy for president, again in 1951 pressed him to run for the office as a Democrat.
In an effort to accommodate the right, he stressed that the liberation of Eastern Europe should be by peaceful means only ; he also distanced himself from his former boss President Truman.
While President Truman had begun the process of desegregating the Armed Forces in 1948, actual implementation had been slow.
Eisenhower was also the first outgoing President to come under the protection of the Former Presidents Act ; two living former Presidents, Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman, left office before the Act was passed.
* 1950 – U. S. President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight with communist North Korea in the Korean War.
The Uniform Code of Military Justice, passed by Congress in 1950 and signed by President Harry S Truman, established the policies and procedures for discharging service members.
* 1885 – Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States, wife of President Harry S. Truman ( d. 1982 )
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* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )
* 1951 – Umaru Musa Yar ' Adua, Nigerian politician, 13th President of Nigeria ( d. 2010 )
* 1951 – Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic ( d. 2004 )
* 1951 – Juan Manuel Santos, Colombian politician, 59th President of Colombia
* 1951 – Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico
* In the timeline of Robert Heinlein's utopian novel For Us, the Living – written in 1939 but only published posthumously in 2003 – LaGuardia is elected President in 1951 and serves two terms as a militant reforming president, effectively nationalizing the banking system and instituting a system of Social Credit.
Among his favourite targets were socialist leaders such as Hermann Müller and Carl Severing, and the Jewish Berlin Police President, Bernhard Weiß ( 1880 – 1951 ), whom he subjected to a relentless campaign of Jew-baiting in the hope of provoking a crackdown he could then exploit.
The social tensions led President Tubman to enfranchise the indigenous Liberians either in 1951 or 1963 ( accounts differ ).
* 1951 – The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U. S. President Harry Truman.
* 1951 – Samuel Doe, Liberian politician, 21st President of Liberia ( d. 1990 )
* 1869 – António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal ( d. 1951 )
* 1951 – Traian Băsescu, President of Romania
* 1951 – Fatmir Sejdiu, former ( 2nd ) President of Kosovo
* 1951 – Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria ( d. 2005 )
* The Twenty-second Amendment ( 1951 ) prevents a President from being elected more than twice.
By 1948, the house was declared to be in imminent danger of collapse, forcing President Truman to commission a reconstruction and move across the street to Blair House from 1949 to 1951.
* President Harry S. Truman inaugurated transcontinental television service on September 4, 1951 when he made a speech to the nation.
** Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1951 )
* November 24 – Oscar Carmona, former President of Portugal ( d. 1951 )
In 1926, he founded Fianna Fáil, and was head of government ( President of the Executive Council, later Taoiseach ) from 1932 to 1948, 1951 to 1954, and 1957 to 1959, when he resigned after being elected as President of Ireland.
He led the United Nations Command in the Korean War until he was removed from command by President Harry S. Truman on 11 April 1951.
In 1951, Eva Perón announced her candidacy for the Peronist nomination for the office of Vice President of Argentina, receiving great support from the Peronist political base, low-income and working class Argentines who were referred to as descamisados or " shirtless ones ".
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