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.

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

On 21 July, Churchill and Truman agreed that the weapon should be used against Japan.

However, the Truman and Eisenhower administrations considered it a national security threat for Canada to alone control the deep waterway, and used various means-such as delaying and stalling the Federal Power Commission license for the power aspect-until Congress in early 1954 approved an American seaway role via the Wiley-Dondero act.

* July 21 – WWII: President Harry S. Truman approves the order for atomic bombs to be used against Japan.

The music from Anthem: Part 2 was used in the 1998 film The Truman Show and several film trailers, including Dead Man Walking.

President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 onboard this C-54 Skymaster | VC-54C Presidential transport, the first aircraft used for the role of Air Force One

In March 1947, President Truman appeared before Congress and used Kennan's Containment policy as the basis for what became known as the Truman Doctrine.

The Truman Doctrine, which stated that the United States would send military aid to countries which were threatened by Soviet communism, was used to strengthen the security of Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Harrison used Benjamin Truman ’ s fort as his headquarters.

The first building was a story and a half frame structure used as both a residence and story, which was built by Charles D. Brooks and Truman Brockway of New York.

:* 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.

Truman documents from the period which are known to be authentic used fresh ribbons and clean keys.

Whilst Lee has downplayed autobiographical parallels in the book, Truman Capote, mentioning the character Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird, described details he considered biographical: " In my original version of Other Voices, Other Rooms I had that same man living in the house that used to leave things in the trees, and then I took that out.

The news of the test's success was rushed to Truman, who used it as leverage at the Potsdam conference, held near Berlin.

Although President Truman wasn't willing to risk extensive use of the U. S. bomber force, which was being used as a deterrent for possible Soviet aggression in Europe, a few groups of Strategic Air Command aging B-29 Superfortress bombers that were not part of the nuclear strike force were released for combat over the skies of Korea.

The house has been willed to Sally Truman by her brother who has just died of AIDS, and it soon becomes evident that both couples are afraid to get in the swimming pool once used by Sally's brother.

The CCAFS area had been used by the United States government since 1949 when President Harry S. Truman established the Joint Long Range Proving Grounds at Cape Canaveral to test missiles.

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 ).

Other important works include We Now Know ( 1997 ), an analysis of the Cold War from its origins to the Cuban Missile Crisis, incorporating new archival evidence from the Soviet bloc, and his revised edition of Strategies of Containment ( 2005 ), which analyzes in detail the theory and methods used to contain the Soviet Union from the Truman to Reagan administrations.

The show avoided overused staples of sketch shows, and rarely used pop culture parodies or celebrity impersonations ( with some notable exceptions: the Unabomber, Albert Einstein, Harry Truman, and Jesus ).

Herbert Bix explains that " the Truman administration and General MacArthur both believed the occupation reforms would be implemented smoothly if they used Hirohito to legitimise their changes.

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.

* 1983 — Max Baer Heart Fund offered first grants for Aerie-sponsored CPR classes $ 405, 000 donated to Eagles ' Truman Cardiovascular Lab at Research Medical Center, Kansas City Golden Eagle Fund donated $ 5, 000 in grants to institutions conducting Alzheimer's disease research

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

Truman was later diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease ; once the disease had progressed, he asked Alex to assist him in taking his own life.

The medical metaphor extended beyond the immediate aims of the Truman Doctrine in that the imagery combined with fire and flood imagery evocative of disaster provided the United States with an easy transition to direct military confrontation in later years with communist forces in Korea and Vietnam.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

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.

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

A full china service had not been purchased since the Truman administration in the 1940s, as only a partial service was ordered in the Johnson administration.

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.

Though prominent as a Missouri Senator, Harry Truman had been Vice President only three months when he became President ; he was never informed of Franklin Roosevelt's war or postwar policies while Vice President.

* February 17 – Margaret Truman, American novelist and only child of U. S. President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman ( d. 2008 )

Richard Ice commented that Truman " was not only a fast talker but loud.

Where Harry S. Truman was uncomfortable with the NSC system and only made regular use of it under the pressure of the Korean War, Eisenhower embraced the NSC concept and created a structured system of integrated policy review.

Not only the first postmaster, Kirk was also the first to own a hotel and a tavern in Kirksville ( contrary to popular belief, the name of the city has no connection to John Kirk, onetime president of Truman State University ).

* 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

Efforts to make Alaska a state had been going on since 1943, and had nearly come to fruition during the Truman administration in 1950 when a statehood bill passed in the U. S. House of Representatives, only to die in the Senate.

To date, U. S. courts have overturned only two executive orders: the aforementioned Truman order, and a 1995 order issued by President Clinton that attempted to prevent the federal government from contracting with organizations that had strike-breakers on the payroll.

He served for the remainder of Roosevelt's Presidency and continued in the position under President Harry Truman, resigning in 1948 with the explanation that he could no longer afford to serve in a position that paid only $ 10, 000 annually.

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.

However, he only provides a temporary respite: Truman soon becomes isolated and begins staying alone in his basement after Meryl " leaves " him.

In an initial response, Truman called for a naval blockade of North Korea, and was shocked to learn that such a blockade could only be imposed ' on paper ', since the U. S. Navy no longer had the warships with which to carry out his request.

The American President Harry Truman, himself a Baptist and Freemason, had little time for Franco and noted that a Baptist could only be buried at night in plowed ground.

Although Byrnes's tough position against the Soviets paralleled the feelings of the President, personal relations between the two men grew strained, particularly when Truman felt that Byrnes was attempting to set foreign policy by himself, and only informing the President afterward.