Shearer directed the 2002 film Teddy Bears ' Picnic and appeared in several films, including A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, The Simpsons Movie, The Truman Show, and Godzilla among many others.

After playing a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema with his films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli, Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films — many of them major box office hits — including the Academy Award nominees Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show and Master and Commander.

The 2005 movie Capote, directed by Bennett Miller, is also about the author Truman Capote, and provides great insight into Mr. Capote, his writing of the novel, and the crimes in Holcomb.

" On April 3, 1947, the CRC was designated a Communist front group on the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations, as directed by U. S. President Harry S. Truman ’ s Executive Order 9835.

The Truman Show is a 1998 American satirical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol.

Truman at the same time directed the Secretaries of State and Defense to review and reassess U. S. national security policy in the light of the Soviet atomic explosion, the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War, and acquisition of the hydrogen bomb, and to produce a paper based on their new analysis.

In July 1947, President Harry S. Truman rescinded on " national security grounds " the punitive JCS 1067, which had directed the US forces of occupation in Germany to " take no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany.

On 10 May 1945 President Truman approved JCS ( Joint Chiefs of Staff policy ) 1067 which directed the U. S. forces of occupation in Germany to "... take no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany steps designed to maintain or strengthen the German economy ".

In July 1947, President Harry S. Truman rescinded on " national security grounds " JCS 1067, which had directed the U. S. forces of occupation in Germany to " take no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany.

Among his novels were The Horses, Ballantyne's Folly, Jericho Road, and Beat the Devil ( originally under the pseudonym James Helvick ), which was made into a film directed by John Huston with script credit to Truman Capote ( the title was later used by Cockburn's son Alexander for his regular column in The Nation ).

In July 1947, President Harry S. Truman rescinded on " national security grounds " the punitive JCS 1067, which had directed the U. S. forces of occupation in Germany to " take no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany.

In July 1947, President Harry S. Truman rescinded on " national security grounds " the punitive JCS 1067, which had directed the U. S. forces of occupation in Germany to " take no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany.

In 1951, the U. S. Congress directed President Harry Truman to revoke MFN status to the Soviet Union and other Communist countries.

The report, known as NSC-68, was requested by President Truman on 31 January 1950, following a feasibility study of both the US and the USSR acquiring thermonuclear weapons ; he directed the secretaries of State and Defense " to undertake a reexamination of our objectives in peace and war and of the effect of these objectives on our strategic plans.

Robert Abercrombie Lovett ( September 14, 1895 – May 7, 1986 ) was the fourth United States Secretary of Defense, serving in the cabinet of President Harry S. Truman from 1951 to 1953 and in this capacity, directed the Korean War.

Murder by Death is a 1976 comedy film with a cast featuring Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, and Estelle Winwood, written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore.

In January 1950 President Harry S. Truman directed the Atomic Energy Commission to emphasize thermonuclear research, with the prime objective to become operational in delivering hydrogen bombs.

The film was also noted for its similarities to the Australian telemovie The Plumber ( 1979 ), which was written and directed by Peter Weir, who would later direct Carrey in The Truman Show ( 1998 ).

The film, released by THINKFilm, was produced by Gavin Poolman ( son of the original 1970 film shoot's producer, Willem Poolman ) together with John Trapman, and directed by double Grammy Award-winner Bob Smeaton ( The Beatles Anthology ), with music produced by Eddie Kramer ( Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin ), and features original footage shot in 1970 by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Peter Biziou ( Mississippi Burning, Pink Floyd: The Wall, The Truman Show ).

The American Peace Mobilization ( APM ) was a peace group, officially cited in 1947 by United States Attorney General Tom C. Clark on the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations for 1948, as directed by President Harry S. Truman ’ s Executive Order 9835.

He has convened or co-convened a half-dozen national conferences on the American presidency, directed the annual Truman Legacy Symposium at The Harry S. Truman Little White House, hosted many community “ town halls ” on current issues, and organized civic education programs for school children.

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.

After protests by heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis ( then stationed at Fort Riley ) and the help of Truman Gibson ( then an assistant civilian aide to the Secretary of War ), Robinson also openly criticized segregated hotels and restaurants that served the Dodger organization ; a number of these establishments integrated as a result, including the five-star Chase Park Hotel in St. Louis.

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.

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.

Truman had previously been encouraged by the Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, to inform the Soviets of this new development, in order to avoid sowing distrust over keeping the USSR out of the Manhattan Project.

The signatories were General Secretary Joseph Stalin, President Harry S. Truman, and Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who, as a result of the British general election of 1945, had replaced Winston Churchill as the UK ’ s Conference representative.

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

When the early months of the Korean War showed how poorly prepared the Defense Department was, Truman fired Secretary Louis A. Johnson and named Marshall as Secretary of Defense in September 1950.

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 limited attendance to statutory members plus the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairman of the JCS, the Director of Central Intelligence, two special advisers ( Averell Harriman and Sidney Souers ), and the NSC Executive Secretary.

Cutler and NSC Executive Secretary James Lay testified in support of the effectiveness of the system, but their testimony was offset by that of former Truman administration officials such as George Kennan, Paul Nitze, and Robert Lovett.

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.

" Acheson often found himself acting Secretary during the Secretary's frequent overseas trips, and during this period he cemented a close relationship with President Truman.

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.

Clark McAdams Clifford ( December 25, 1906 – October 10, 1998 ) was an American lawyer who served United States Presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, serving as United States Secretary of Defense for Johnson.

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.

* John W. Snyder-former U. S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Harry S. Truman

* James Francis Byrnes ( 1882 – 1972 ), lawyer, congressman, senator, Supreme Court Justice ( only person to step down off the bench for another federal post — head the wartime Office of Economic Stabilization ), advisor to FDR, Secretary of State to Truman, Governor of South Carolina

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.

The museum was originally called the National Air Museum when formed on August 12, 1946 by an act of Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman, some pieces in the National Air and Space Museum collection date back to the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia after which the Chinese Imperial Commission donated a group of kites to the Smithsonian after Smithsonian Secretary Spencer Fullerton Baird convinced exhibiters that shipping them home would be too costly.