Then China promptly went Communist, and Mr. Truman had to fight the interminable Korean war for the democratization of Korea before we learned how far our writ did `` reach in Asia ''.

In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage.

Truman did not act on the plan.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough has written that Humphrey probably did more to get Truman elected in 1948 than anyone other than Truman himself.

Instead, Truman met with Stevenson in Washington and proposed that Stevenson seek the Democratic nomination for president ; Truman promised him his support if he did so.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt later championed it, as did Harry S. Truman as part of his Fair Deal and many others.

The amendment specifically did not apply to the sitting president ( Harry S. Truman ) at the time it was proposed by Congress.

In 1948, he encouraged President Harry S. Truman to integrate the armed services, which he did soon after.

During the first year of the Korean war, the NSC came as close as it ever did under Truman to fulfilling that role.

Truman insisted that if Greece and Turkey did not receive the aid that they needed, they would inevitably fall to Communism with consequences throughout the region.

:* The typewriter used for the Truman letter was a Smith Corona model which did not exist until 1962 — fifteen years after the document was allegedly written.

At the 71st Academy Awards, The Truman Show was nominated for three categories but did not win any awards.

Although the JIOA's recruitment of German scientists began after the European Allied victory ( 8 May 1945 ), US President Harry Truman did not formally order the execution of Operation Paperclip until August 1945.

Japan did this on the same day it signed the San Francisco Treaty: Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida and U. S. President Harry S. Truman signed a document that allowed the United States Armed Forces to continue their use of bases in Japan.

Truman did not take advantage of this provision, however, and chose not to stand for election again.

There he also did some modelling with the sculptor Truman H. Bartlett.

In the late 1930s, the government constructed the War Department Building ( renamed in 2000 as the Harry S Truman Building ) at 21st and C Streets in Foggy Bottom, but upon completion, the new building did not solve the space problem of the department, and the Department of State ultimately used it and continues to use it in present day.

Others however did not understand the purpose of the uproar and President Harry S. Truman was even reported to have said, " What the hell are the critics complaining about ; that's how you handle hounds.

Truman described the act as a " slave-labor bill " in his veto, but he did invoke it.

In most years of her husband's presidency Mrs. Truman did not live in Washington other than during the social season when her presence was expected.

Truman did not send proposed legislation to Congress ; he expected Congress to draft the bills.

After his initial 1948 plan to expand the Army and modernize its equipment was rejected by the Truman Administration, Bradley reacted to the increasingly severe postwar defense department budget cutbacks imposed by Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson by publicly supporting Johnson's decisions, going so far as to tell Congress that he would be doing a " disservice to the nation " if he asked for a larger military force.

Truman is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and initially refuses to tell Beatrice.

But then Truman died and he was asked to appear on National Television and tell some Truman stories, some of which he had been entertaining friends with over the years.

Clement Attlee ( left ) with President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the 1945 Potsdam Conference.

Attlee also attended the later stages of the Potsdam Conference in the company of Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin.

Both superpower leaders, U. S. President Harry S. Truman ( de facto ) and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, immediately recognized the new state.

Some hotels have gained their renown through tradition, by hosting significant events or persons, such as Schloss Cecilienhof in Potsdam, Germany, which derives its fame from the Potsdam Conference of the World War II allies Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin in 1945.

Stalin met in several conferences with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ( and later Clement Attlee ) and / or U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ( and later Harry Truman ) to plan military strategy and, later, to discuss Europe's postwar reorganization.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, President of the United States | U. S. President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945. At the Potsdam Conference from July to August 1945, though Germany had surrendered months earlier, instead of withdrawing Soviet forces from Eastern European countries, Stalin had not moved those forces.

Stalin pushed for reparations from Germany without regard to the base minimum supply for German citizens ' survival, which worried Truman and Churchill who thought that Germany would become a financial burden for Western powers.

( President Harry S. Truman, who stood only five feet nine inches himself, described Stalin as " a little squirt ".

* 1945 – World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

A picture of a conference session including Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Joseph Stalin, William D. Leahy, Joseph E. Davies, James F. Byrnes, and Harry S. Truman

Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman meeting at the Potsdam Conference on 18 July 1945.

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.

Clement Attlee, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945

The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, and, later, Clement Attlee and President Harry S. Truman.

Stalin, Churchill, and Truman — as well as Attlee, who participated alongside Churchill while awaiting the outcome of the 1945 general election, and then replaced Churchill as Prime Minister after the Labour Party's victory over the Conservatives — gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier, on 8 May ( V-E Day ).

Truman became much more suspicious of communist moves than Roosevelt had been, and he became increasingly suspicious of Soviet intentions under Stalin.

Truman and his advisers saw Soviet actions in Eastern Europe as aggressive expansionism which was incompatible with the agreements Stalin had committed to at Yalta the previous February.

In addition, it was at the Potsdam Conference that Truman became aware of possible complications elsewhere, when Stalin objected to Churchill's proposal for an early allied withdrawal from Iran, ahead of the agreed upon schedule set at the Tehran Conference.

However, the Potsdam Conference marks the first and only time Truman would ever meet Stalin in person.

It later became known that Stalin was actually aware of the atomic bomb before Truman was, as he had multiple spies that had infiltrated the Manhattan Project from very early on ( notably Klaus Fuchs, Ted Hall, and David Greenglass ), while Truman had only learned about the weapon after Roosevelt's death.

Joseph Stalin suggested that Truman preside over the conference as the only head of state attending, a recommendation accepted by Attlee.