In 1950 American president Harry S. Truman said that atomic weapons may be used in the Korean War.

These investigations tended to dig out old forgotten investigations and demand actions that were already being taken by the Truman Administration, although it can be said that the committee's investigations caused the changes.

Soon after Truman relieved MacArthur of command in April 1951, Bradley said in Congressional testimony, " Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.

Clea Bunch said that " President Truman crafted a balanced policy between Israel and its moderate Hashemite neighbours when he simultaneously extended formal recognition to the newly created state of Israel and the Kingdom of Transjordan.

Truman said it was his belief that by 1954 he would be able to speak more fully on subjects pertaining to the role his administration played in world affairs.

One is said to resemble cartoon character Bugs Bunny and US President Harry S. Truman dubbed the other work Scrambled Eggs.

According to The Washington Post ; " He said it was not he who changed his political philosophy so much as the Democratic Party, which abandoned the hard-headed internationalism of Harry Truman, Kennedy and Jackson.

Truman said of dedicating the victory to Roosevelt's memory and keeping the flags at half-staff that his only wish was " that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day.

Jacobson convinced Truman to meet secretly with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann in a meeting said to have resulted in turning White House support back in favor of partition, and ultimately to de facto recognition of Israeli statehood.

The New York Times said that Truman had allowed personal and political friendship to influence his choice.

In his announcement of Japan's surrender on August 14, President Truman said that " the proclamation of V-J Day must wait upon the formal signing of the surrender terms by Japan ".

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.

When describing new President Harry S. Truman's car in the procession, Godfrey fervently said, in a choked voice, " God bless him, President Truman.

In a 1947 speech to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), which marked the first time a sitting President had ever addressed the group, Truman said " Every man should have the right to a decent home, the right to an education, the right to adequate medical care, the right to a worthwhile job, the right to an equal share in the making of public decisions through the ballot, and the right to a fair trial in a fair court.

According to James Bates, the voice of Snowflake, " I said, ' How about a little Wolfman Jack, Charles Nelson Reilly, Pearl Bailey and a little Truman Capote?

In 1950 President Harry Truman called George Smathers into a meeting at the White House and reportedly said " I want you to do me a favor.

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

* Garrett Mattingly, the historian, said that in the course of his wartime intelligence job, he read the cable from Marshall to Eisenhower that Merle Miller claimed Truman told him about ; Mattingly recalled that Marshall threatened Eisenhower with relief from his position as supreme commander if he divorced Mamie to marry Summersby.

Bishop George Morley wrote a pastoral letter to his clergy against Bull ; Thomas Barlow lectured against him at Oxford ; Thomas Tully wrote an answer, in which he is said to have been assisted by Morley and Barlow ; Charles Gataker, son of Thomas Gataker, Thomas Truman and John Toombes, nonconformists, also wrote against him.

Well, he looked around for kind of a podium, something to stand on, and then the only thing available was a pile of that stuff that the late Mrs. Truman said it had taken her 35 years to get Harry to call " fertilizer.

" Later, in April 1952, Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza García visited US President Harry Truman and said that if provided arms, he would collaborate with Guatemalan exile Carlos Castillo Armas to overthrow Guatemalan President Arbenz.

Of the Truman Doctrine, he said: " Our Christian ideals cannot be exported to other lands by dollars and guns.

In an ending similar to the final scene in The Truman Show, moderator Thomas Schuermann looked at the camera and said " in case we don't see you, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, and Good Night.

In 1950 President Harry Truman called Smathers into a meeting at the White House and reportedly said " I want you to do me a favor.

Roosevelt kept his last Vice President, Harry Truman, uninformed on all war and postwar issues, such as the atomic bomb, leading Truman to remark, wryly, that the job of the Vice President was to " go to weddings and funerals.

The bow has a ground floor double staircase leading to a Ionic colonnaded loggia ( with the Truman Balcony at second-floor level ), known as the south portico.

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.

General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War advocated this policy, leading to his dismissal by President Harry Truman.

In 1981, he portrayed Harry Truman, an 83-year-old lodge owner in the semi-fictional account of events leading to the eruption of Mount St. Helens, in the movie titled St. Helens.

An awe-struck Truman then discovers a flight of stairs nearby, leading to a door marked " EXIT ".

Truman, originally, intended that both men would play leading roles in his administration, signaling continuity with Roosevelt's policies.

President Truman and later President Dwight D. Eisenhower provided financial support to the French, thus leading to the Indochina War and ultimately the Vietnam War.

In the late 1940s, his writings inspired the Truman Doctrine and the U. S. foreign policy of " containing " the Soviet Union, thrusting him into a lifelong role as a leading authority on the Cold War.

New Hampshire has held a presidential primary since 1916, but it did not begin to assume its current importance until 1952 after the state simplified its ballot access laws in 1949 seeking to boost voter turnout, when Dwight Eisenhower demonstrated his broad voter appeal by defeating Robert A. Taft, " Mr. Republican ," who had been favored for the nomination, and Estes Kefauver defeated incumbent President Harry S. Truman, leading Truman to abandon his campaign for a second term of his own.

The early returns showed the Republican ticket leading Truman and Barkley pretty consistently in the western and southern states " and added that " indications were that the complete returns would disclose that Dewey won the presidency by an overwhelming majority of the electoral vote.

" Salisbury began attacking Truman's patrons, the Pendergast machine, for corruption, and Truman retaliated by telegramming the Federal Home Loan Bank system about Salisbury, leading to Salisbury's conviction for filing a false affidavit.

Abba Hillel Silver was a leading proponent of Zionism in America, meeting with President Truman several times until his bombastic manner caused friction, leading to alienation with the White House and him being barred from further meetings and appearing on national television to announce to Americans the advancement of Israel.

Historians credit him with among other behind-the-scenes labors, leading a compromise at the 1944 National Democratic Convention that eventually made Harry Truman president.

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.

Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee won most of the primaries, but he was unpopular with President Truman and other prominent Democrats, who saw him as a party maverick who could not be trusted.

States in blue voted for Democrats Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley ; those in red voted for Republicans Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren.

The States ' Rights Democratic Party dissolved after the 1948 election, as Truman, the Democratic National Committee, and the New Deal Southern Democrats acted to ensure that the Dixiecrat movement would not return in 1952 presidential election.

American Jews voted 90 % against the Republicans and supported Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman in the elections of 1940, 1944 and 1948, despite both party platforms supporting the creation of a Jewish state in the latter two elections.

At the 1984 Republican National Convention, Kirkpatrick delivered the " Blame America First " keynote speech, which re-nominated Reagan by praising his administration's foreign policy while excoriating the leadership of what she called the " San Francisco Democrats "— the Democrats had just held their convention in San Francisco — for the party's shift away from the hawkish policies of former Democratic presidents such as Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy to a more strident anti-war position that the left-wing of the Democratic Party had pushed since Vietnam.

Politically, the era was dominated by presidents, Democrats Harry Truman ( 1945 – 53 ), John F. Kennedy ( 1961 – 63 ) and Lyndon Johnson ( 1963 – 69 ), and Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1953 – 61 ).

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.

He took over the midwest campaign for President Truman and was credited with assisting not only Truman's 1948 reelection but bringing nine Democrats into the Senate.

He gave lukewarm support to Harry S. Truman in 1948, saying the Democrats should nominate Dwight D. Eisenhower instead ; but he did not support his friend Henry A. Wallace that year.

In the absence of three dozen Southern delegates who walked out of the convention with Thurmond, 947 Democrats voted to nominate Truman as their candidate ( against 263 for Senator Richard Russell, Jr. of Georgia ).

President Harry S. Truman vetoed the Act, but enough Democrats joined with the Republicans to override the Presidential veto on June 23, 1947.

The Democrats nominated a liberal intellectual with no ties to Roosevelt or Truman, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II.