Impressed by its reliability, he visited the Packards and soon enlisted a group of investors — including Truman Handy Newberry and Russell A. Alger Jr. On October 2, 1902, this group refinanced and renamed the New York and Ohio Automobile Company as " Packard Motor Car Company ", with James as president.

In July 1946, President Truman enlisted the services of one of his senior advisers, Clark Clifford, to prepare a report on Soviet relations that would provide detail on Soviet disregard for post-war agreements.

Brashear enlisted in the U. S. Navy on February 25, 1948, shortly after the Navy had been desegregated by President Truman.

On March 5, 1947, a few months before the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Chapultepec, U. S. President Harry S. Truman placed a wreath at the monument and stood for a few moments of silent reverence.

* 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.

The Cold War ( 1947 – 1953 ) is the period within the Cold War from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the conclusion of the Korean War in 1953.

* 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.

* 1885 – Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States, wife of President Harry S. Truman ( d. 1982 )

* Presidents Park – Freshmen – Completed in 1989, and housing approximately 1, 100 students in twelve halls ( Adams, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Harrison, Lincoln, Truman, Jackson, Madison, Wilson, Jefferson, Monroe, Washington ).

* 1950 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.

* 2008 – Margaret Truman, American writer, daughter of Harry S. Truman ( b. 1924 )

* 1947 – Cold War: U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.

* 1948 – U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.

* 1949 – Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.

* 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.

Truman Sports Complex, with Arrowhead and Kaufmann Stadiums, opened in 1972 – 73.

* 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.

* 1884 – Harry S. Truman, American politician, 33rd President of the United States ( d. 1972 )

* 1947 – Cold War: in an effort to fight the spread of Communism, U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine.

* The New Yorker: The Duke in His Domain – Truman Capote's influential 1957 interview.

President Truman wanted one of his Armored Divisions parading in front of him on the 4 July in Berlin, and 2nd and 7th Armored were both prepared for the honor.

We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.

Calling on congressional approval for the United States to " support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures ," or in short a policy of " containment ", Truman articulated a presentation of the ideological struggle that became known as the " Truman Doctrine.

Fearing that communist Korea under a Kim Il Sung dictatorship could threaten Japan and foster other communist movements in Asia, Truman committed U. S. forces and obtained help from the United Nations to counter the North Korean invasion.

Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans ' Hospital is administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

Li visited the President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, and denounced Chiang as a " dictator " and an " usurper.

The United States extended official recognition after the first Israeli election, as Truman had promised, on 31 January 1949.

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.

A combination of not being in step with the Truman Administration and owing to the emerging ' red scare ' on known or suspected Communists by the US government after Roosevelt's death made Ivens leave the United States.

U. S. Federal law approved by the President Harry S. Truman on June 27, 1952 declared all persons born in Puerto Rico on or after January 13, 1941 to be citizens of the U. S. at birth and all persons born in Puerto Rico between April 11, 1899, and January 12, 1941, and meeting certain other technical requirements, and not citizens of the United States under any other Act, were declared to be citizens of the U. S. as of January 13, 1941.

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.

Second row: Brigadier general ( United States ) | Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan, Truman's confidant and military aide ; Russian interpreter Charles Bohlen, Truman naval aide James K. Vardaman, Jr., and ( partially obscured ) Charles Griffith Ross.

) Using the customary international law principle of a nation's right to protect its natural resources, President Truman in 1945 extended United States control to all the natural resources of its continental shelf.

* President Harry S. Truman ( United States )

* April 8 – Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer: The U. S. Supreme Court limits the power of the President to seize private business, after President Harry S. Truman nationalizes all steel mills in the United States, just before the 1952 steel strike begins.

In 1948, President Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the U. S. Army, proposed the creation of a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, supported the elimination of state poll taxes ( which effectively discriminated against poor blacks and whites ), and supported drafting federal anti-lynching laws.

On July 26, 1951, the US Army formally announced its plans to desegregate, exactly three years after Truman issued Executive Order 9981.

On June 25, 1951, President Harry S. Truman formally dedicated the Arnold Engineering Development Corporation Center ( AEDC ), named in honor of General " Hap " Arnold, who commanded the Army Air Forces during World War II.

* Truman O. Olson, recipient of Medal of Honor, World War II, United States Army

Together with Army General Albert C. Wedemeyer, Navy Vice Admiral Oscar C. Badger II, and others, Chennault stated that the Truman administration's arms embargo was a key factor in the loss of morale to the Nationalist armies.

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.

General J. Lawton Collins went even further when testifying before a House Appropriations committee, stating that Truman administration reductions in Army force levels made it more effective.

When President Harry S. Truman instituted dramatic postwar military budget cuts, he split defense dollars evenly among the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

Ambitious politicians, including Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy, made names for themselves by exposing or threatening to expose Communists within the Truman administration or later, in McCarthy's case, within the United States Army.

In the 1948 election, after Harry Truman had desegregated the Army, a group of Southern Democrats known as Dixiecrats split from the Democratic Party in reaction to the inclusion of a civil rights plank in the party's platform.

Royall was forced into retirement in April 1949 for continuing to refuse to desegregate the Army even nearly a year after President Truman promulgated Executive Order 9981.

* 1952: Anthony Leviero, New York Times, " for his exclusive article of April 21, 1951, disclosing the record of conversations between President Truman and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island in their conference of October 1950.

Truman also allegedly said he had the correspondence between Marshall and Eisenhower retrieved from the Army archives and destroyed.

When President Truman integrated the U. S. Army in 1948, Rivers called him a " dead chicken " and a " bankrupt politician ".

When the VI Corps returned to the Army of the Potomac General Truman Seymour was placed in command of the 3rd Division and Keifer returned to command the 2nd Brigade, taking part in the breakthrough at Petersburg and the Appomattox Campaign.

After the crash, the United States Army Air Forces and a congressional committee headed by then-Senator Harry S. Truman investigated the B-29 program issuing a scathing report, prompting the Army Air Force to take over the program.

U. S. President Harry S. Truman declared martial law and ordered the U. S. Army and Air Force to attack the town of Jayuya.

In 1946, U. S. President Harry S. Truman ordered the augmentation of U. S. troops within their occupation zone ( Zone A ) and the reinforcement of air forces in northern Italy after Yugoslav forces had shot down two US Army transport planes flying over the Julian March.

He was also a U. S. Army associate, business partner, and close friend of President Harry S. Truman.

Two years later, on 28 June 1950, President Harry S. Truman established the Transportation Corps as a permanent branch of the Army.

The Harry S. Truman Regional Visitor Center contains exhibits about the cultural and natural history of Truman Lake, environmental activities, the construction of the dam, the operation of the powerhouse, and the US Army Corps of Engineers.