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.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

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.

Notified that British aid to Greece and Turkey would end in less than six weeks, and already hostile towards and suspicious of Soviet intentions, because of their reluctance to withdraw from Iran, the Truman administration decided that additional action was necessary.

However, in formulating policies regarding the atomic bomb and relations with the Soviets Truman was guided by the U. S. State Department and ignored Eisenhower and the Pentagon.

At home, Eisenhower was more effective in making the case for NATO in Congress than the Truman administration ; by the middle of 1951, American and European support for NATO was substantial enough to give it a genuine military force.

The campaign strategy, dubbed " K < sub > 1 </ sub > C < sub > 2 </ sub >", was to focus on attacking the Truman and Roosevelt administrations on three issues: Korea, Communism and corruption.

Eisenhower was also the first outgoing President to come under the protection of the Former Presidents Act ; two living former Presidents, Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman, left office before the Act was passed.

Truman Capote, who helped spread salacious rumors about Hoover, once remarked that he was more interested in making Hoover angry than determining whether the rumors were true.

In the morning the grinning President-Elect, Harry S. Truman, was photographed holding a newspaper bearing this headline.

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.

The creation of NSA was authorized in a letter written by President Harry S. Truman in June 1952.

One month after the war was won in the Pacific Theater of Operations, on September 20, 1945, President Truman signed Executive Order 9621, which came into effect as of October 1, 1945.

In January 1946, President Truman created the Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ) which was the direct precursor to the CIA.

It was established in 1963 and replaced the earlier Medal of Freedom that was established by President Harry S. Truman in 1945.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is similar in name to the Medal of Freedom established by President Harry S. Truman in 1945 to honor civilian service during World War II, but much closer in meaning and precedence to the Medal for Merit: the Presidential Medal of Freedom is currently the supreme civilian decoration in precedence, whereas the Medal of Freedom was inferior in precedence to the Medal for Merit ; the Medal of Freedom was awarded by any of three Cabinet secretaries, whereas the Medal for Merit was ( and the PMOF is ) awarded by the 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.

* In 2006, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem awarded Colin Powell with the Truman Peace Prize for his efforts to conduct the " war against terrorism ," through diplomatic as well as military means, and to avert regional and civil conflicts in many parts of the world.

The first substantial aid went to Greece and Turkey in January 1947, which were seen as the front line of the battle against communist expansion, and were already receiving aid under the Truman Doctrine.

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

MacArthur then planned for a full-scale invasion of China, but this was against the wishes of President Truman and others who wanted a limited war.

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

He told President Truman in May 1948, " If you ( recognize the state of Israel ) and if I were to vote in the election, I would vote against you.

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.

To Truman, with growing unrest in Greece, it began to look like a pincer movement against the oil-rich areas of the Middle East and the warm-water ports of the Mediterranean.

In a subsequent letter to him, Truman wrote " I think we ought to protest with all vigor ... against the Russian program in Iran.

In 2006 Lisa Stasi's daughter — known since her " adoption " as Heather Robinson — filed a civil suit against Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, and social worker Karen Gaddis.

In 1953, the Truman administration in its closing days filed antitrust charges against the Star over its ownership of WDAF-TV.

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.

During private cabinet meetings with President Truman in 1946 and 1947, Forrestal had argued against partition of Palestine on the grounds it would infuriate Arab countries who supplied oil needed for the U. S. economy and national defense.

Fielding L. Wright's run as vice-presidential candidate was largely a protest against the nomination of President Truman and the inclusion of civil rights proposals in the Democratic Party platform.

She is also a protester against The Truman Show, urging Christof to release its lead.

After hearing arguments from scientists and military officers over the possible uses of the weapons against Japan ( though some recommended using them as " demonstrations " in unpopulated areas, most recommended using them against " built up " targets, a euphemistic term for populated cities ), Truman ordered the use of the weapons on Japanese cities, hoping it would send a strong message that would end in the capitulation of the Japanese leadership and avoid a lengthy invasion of the islands.

From the beginning, Johnson and Truman assumed that the United States ' monopoly on the atomic bomb was adequate protection against any and all external threats.

Truman's presidency was also eventful in foreign affairs, with the defeat of Nazi Germany and his decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan, the founding of the United Nations, the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, the Truman Doctrine to contain communism, the beginning of the Cold War, the Berlin Airlift, and the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ).

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.

Due to the nationwide campaigning of the Truman administration against an ' obstructionist ' Republican Congress, Republicans lost across the country, including Hurley.

The genetic relation of Wiyot and Yurok to Algonquian was first proposed by Edward Sapir ( 1913, 1915, 1923 ), and argued against by Algonquianist Truman S. Michelson ( 1914, 1914, 1935 ).

In the aftermath of the war, in September / October 1945, President Truman terminated the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ).

After the demise of the OSS, " Truman immediately commenced building a new intelligence system ".

Although he argued forcefully for the OSS's retention, he found himself opposed by numerous opponents, including President Harry S. Truman, who personally disliked Donovan, as well as J. Edgar Hoover, who viewed the OSS as competition for his goal to expand the FBI's investigative operations internationally.

' After Truman disbanded the OSS in September 1945, Donovan returned to civilian life.