61. Medical History Of President Harry Truman Reviews the ills of America's 33rd president. His thick glasses may have been a result of a childhood infection. http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g33.htm

Breaking news President Taft Sleep apnea The story from ... Text Version The Medical History of President Harry Truman "Truman had very few health problems in his lifetime mostly minor. [But] he had a tendency to ignore his illness until it either went away, or floored him. [ President #33. Timeline: Maladies diphtheria farsightedness childhood accidents ... Resources Maladies and Conditions Top diphtheria Truman developed diphtheria in 1894 at age 10. He was paralyzed for several months and had to be wheeled around in a baby carriage. Diphtheria antitoxin was unavailable then, so he was treated with ipecac and whiskey. He developed a severe distaste for both. [ farsightedness As a child, Truman was diagnosed with a rare eye problem, "flat eyeballs." He wore thick glasses beginning at age eight, after his mother noticed he was able to see the large print in the family Bible, but unable to see objects at a distance. It has been said that Truman was far-sighted (which fits with the flat eyeballs diagnosis) [ ], but this pattern of visual acuity is characteristic of near-sightedness.

62. Shoot-Out On Pennsylvania Avenue Article on the attempted assassination of president harry S. truman. http://www.thehistorynet.com/AmericanHistory/articles/1998/06982_text.htm

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63. Harry S Truman HistoryHistory and Government—us Presidents—Biographies of thePresidents. harry S truman. Born 5/8/1884 Birthplace Lamar, Mo. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760617.html

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64. American President Fact file and comprehensive biographical sketch based on PBS series. Also includes gallery and quotations. http://www.americanpresident.org/history/harrytruman/

Your name Email City State Question Presidency in History Harry Truman Biography Early Years document.write(""); Presidency in History Biography First Lady Cabinet ... Presidency in Action search: Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) 33rd President of the United States Vice President : Alben W. Barkley (1949-53). Born : May 8, 1884, Lamar, MO Nickname : "Give 'Em Hell Harry" Education : University of Kansas City Law School Career : Farmer, Businessman, Public Official Religion : Baptist Marriage : June 28, 1919, to Elizabeth "Bess" Virginia Wallace (1885-1982) Children : Mary Margaret Truman (1924- ) Political Party : Democrat Writings Memoirs (2 vols., 1955-56) Died : December 26, 1972, Kansas City, MO Buried : Independence, MO Consulting Editor Biography: Early Years Harry Truman believed in the United States with an intensity that few today can quite understand. He was fully convinced, without ever articulating it, that nothing fundamentally bad could happen to America, because the United States was God's country. It was a nineteenth-century belief residing in a twentieth-century Midwestern optimist. "Of course you've got to be an optimist if you're going to try to help the country go forward," he once said. "No pessimist ever did anything for the welfare of the world." Harry S. Truman was born and raised in western Missouri into a hardworking farm family. "My mother was naturally the one who took care of the youngsters at home and saw that they came up the right way," he recalled. "When I was ten . . . [she] gave me a little blackboard on the back of which was a column of four or five paragraphs on every President up 'til that time, which included Grover Cleveland. And that's where I got interested in the history of the country." His father wanted Harry to become a farmer, and he exercised tough discipline on the studious boy. "If he didn't like what you did," Truman remembered, "he'd hit you with a hickory cane-and that was an Andrew Jackson descendent."

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The Library of Congress Every Segment of Our Population and Every Individual Has a Right to Expect from our Government a Fair Deal . . . President Harry Truman, Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union January 5, 1949 Project WhistleStop Harry Truman April 19, 1945. Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present On January 5 , 1949, President Harry Truman used his State of the Union address to recommend measures including national health insurance, raising the minimum wage, strengthening the position of organized labor, and guarantying the civil rights of all Americans. Referencing the popular " New Deal " programs of his predecessor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt , Truman styled his reform package the "Fair Deal." A few months earlier the president's career seemed over. Running for reelection against popular Republican governor Thomas E. Dewey, political pundits agreed Truman needed a miracle to win. Adding to the incumbent troubles, a revived Progressive Party attempted to attract left-leaning Democrats, while segregationist "Dixiecrats" broke with the Democrats to run South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond for president. Responding to the competition, Truman made contact with thousands of voters via a 30,000 mile campaign of whistle-stop speeches. Still, the Chicago Daily Tribune was so confident of the president's defeat it went to press with the November 3, 1948 headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN."

66. Presidents Of The United States and Security Measures, Resources about the four us Presidents who were assassinationsof Andrew Jackson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, harry S truman, Gerald Ford http://www.presidentsusa.net/

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67. "Enemies From Within": Senator Joseph R. McCarthy And President Harry S. Truman Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and president harry S. truman trade accusations of disloyalty. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6456/

Printer-Friendly Version Speech of Joseph McCarthy, Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950 Today we can almost physically hear the mutterings and rumblings of an invigorated god of war. You can see it, feel it, and hear it all the way from the Indochina hills, from the shores of Formosa, right over into the very heart of Europe itself. Karl Marx dismissed God as a hoax, and Lenin and Stalin have added in clear-cut, unmistakable language their resolve that no nation, no people who believe in a god, can exist side by side with their communistic state. Ladies and gentlemen, can there be anyone tonight who is so blind as to say that the war is not on? Can there by anyone who fails to realize that the Communist world has said the time is now? . . . that this is the time for the show-down between the democratic Christian world and the communistic atheistic world? Unless we face this fact, we shall pay the price that must be paid by those who wait too long. The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because our only powerful potential enemy has sent men to invade our shores . . . but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have been treated so well by this Nation. It has not been the less fortunate, or members of minority groups who have been traitorous to this Nation, but rather those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest Nation on earth has had to offer . . . the finest homes, the finest college education and the finest jobs in government we can give.

68. TRUMAN, Harry S. (1884-1972) Biographical Information truman, harry S., a Senator from Missouri, a Vice president, and Thirtythird presidentof the United States; born in Lamar, Barton County, Mo., May 8, 1884 http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000387

69. U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1964-Present > Harry Trum Tells about the historic visit the former president paid to the U.S. Senate on his 80th birthday. http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Harry_Truman_Visits_The_Senat

Home Historical Minutes 1964-Present 1964-Present May 8, 1964 Harry Truman Visits the Senate May 8 marks the birth anniversary of an American president who never tired of saying that the "happiest ten years" of his life were those he spent in the United States Senate. Born on May 8, 1884, Missouri's Harry S. Truman came to the Senate at the age of fifty in January 1935. Reference Items: McCullough, David. Truman. Historical information provided by the Senate Historical Office. Have a historical question? E-mail a Senate historian. Information about any senator, representative, vice president, or member of the Continental Congress. Contact Content Responsibility Usage Policy PDF Help

70. Harry S. Truman: Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989 harry S. truman. http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres53.html

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Harry S. Truman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Server will be down for maintenance on 2004-06-11 from about 18:00 to 18:30 UTC. For the volcano victim, see Harry Truman (volcano victim) Harry S. Truman Order: 33rd President Term of Office: April 12 January 20 Predecessor: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Successor: Dwight D. Eisenhower Date of Birth Thursday May 8 Place of Birth: Lamar Missouri Date of Death: Tuesday December 26 Place of Death: Kansas City Missouri First Lady Bess Truman Profession: farmer businessman Senator Political Party ... Alben W. Barkley Harry S Truman May 8 December 26 ) was the thirty-fourth ( Vice President and the thirty-third ( President of the United States , succeeding to the office upon the death of Franklin Roosevelt Truman's presidency was very eventful, seeing the end of World War II , the beginning of the Cold War , the formation of the United Nations , and most of the Korean War . Truman was a notoriously folksy president, issuing many famous phrases including "the buck stops here". Table of contents 1 Early life 2 Political career 3 Presidency 4 Post-presidency ... edit Early life Harry S Truman was born on May 8 in Lamar, Missouri

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73. Harry S. Truman Served as president from 1945 to 1953. harry S. truman (18841972), becamepresident at one of the most critical moments in American history. http://www2.worldbook.com/features/presidents/html/truman.htm

Click on the links below to read portraits of presidents who served from the early though the mid-1900's. Theodore Roosevelt William H. Taft Woodrow Wilson Warren G. Harding ... Go back to links to portraits of vice presidents. Served as president from 1945 to 1953 Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), became president at one of the most critical moments in American history. He had been vice president for only 83 days when President Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. World War II still had to be won. Plans to establish the United Nations organization had just been started. When Truman became president, he was known mainly for his work as chairman of a wartime Senate investigating committee that had saved millions of dollars in military contracts. The Missouri Democrat met the challenges of his presidency with courage, determination, and imagination. During the first few weeks of his Administration, the Allies won victory in Europe. Truman then made one of the most awesome decisions ever considered by one human being to use the powerful new atomic bomb against Japan to end World War II. Truman's presidency Truman faced other great problems throughout his years in the White House. The United States had to reorganize its economy from a wartime to a peacetime basis. Many war-torn countries needed large relief programs. Western nations faced Communist subversion and aggression in a Cold War that divided the world. To meet these challenges, Truman's Administration created such far-reaching programs as the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Point Four Program, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

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Main Page See live article Alphabetical index Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman President Truman in November 1945 Order: 33rd President Term of Office: April 12 January 20 Followed: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Succeeded by: Dwight D. Eisenhower Date of Birth Tuesday May 8 Place of Birth: Lamar Missouri Date of Death: Tuesday December 26 Place of Death: Kansas City Missouri First Lady Elizabeth "Bess" Virginia Wallace Profession: farmer Political Party Democrat Vice President ... Alben W. Barkley Harry S #Truman's_middle_initial Truman May 8 December 26 ) was the thirty-fourth ( Vice President and the thirty-third ( President of the United States , succeeding to the office upon the death of Franklin Roosevelt Truman's presidency was very eventful, seeing the end of World War II , the beginning of the Cold War , the formation of the United Nations , and most of the Korean War . Truman was a notoriously folksy president, issuing many famous phrases including "the buck stops here". Table of contents 1 Early life 2 Political career 3 Presidency 4 Post-presidency ... 10 References Early life Harry S. Truman was born on

78. President Truman harry S. truman 1945 1953. harry truman was the great-great-great nephew of JohnTyler. A good piano player, truman considered a career in music but went into http://www.classroomhelp.com/lessons/Presidents/truman.html

U.S. Presidents Home Page George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson ... George W. Bush Harry S. Truman Truman was born in Missouri. Harry Truman was the great-great-great nephew of John Tyler He was a Baptist. He served in the military during WWI. A good piano player, Truman considered a career in music but went into politics instead. He became president when Franklin Roosevelt died. Harry Truman didn't have a Vice President. He had been Franklin Roosevelt's last VP, and the position was not filled until Truman was elected for his own term in 1948. He was one of 15 Presidents who didn't win the popular vote in his election. The train Truman used to campaign in 1948 was called the Ferdinand Magellan. Truman was the first President to have his inauguration televised. One day Harry Truman walked into the Green Room and looked down at the rug. Something bothered him about that rugfinally he realized that the head of the eagle on the presidential seal in the center of the rug was turned the wrong way. Instead of facing the olive branch, this eagle's head pointed toward the arrows. Promptly Truman ordered that the rug be re-stitched with the eagle's head turned the right way. The smartest boy in Truman's graduating class of 1901, Charles G. Ross, became Truman's press secretary.

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Entries Publication Data Advisory Board Contributors ... World Civilizations The Reader's Companion to American History TRUMAN, HARRY S. , thirty-third president of the United States, remembered for his genial common touch and outspoken bluntness. Truman rose in politics as the result of an alliance with the notorious Pendergast machine of Kansas City. A failure in various business ventures, he was notably successful in other endeavors—as a combat artillery captain in World War I, a rising figure in the Reserve Officers Corps (1920-1939), an effective county administrator (1923-1924, 1927-1934), and a popular and industrious U.S. senator (1935-1945). Beneath a usually friendly manner, he harbored a thick layer of aggressiveness that occasionally discharged itself in angry outbursts. Achieving the vice presidency in 1944 because of his acceptability to all wings of the Democratic party, he became president upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 12, 1945. As a party leader, he hoped to maintain a grand coalition that would have room for all the diverse elements of Roosevelt's political coalition. Personally, however, he considered himself a bit to the left of center and possessed roots in the tradition of western and midwestern insurgency. As president, therefore, he pursued an aggressively liberal program (the Fair Deal) that roused the Democratic presidential party and helped him win election in 1948. Its major elements, however, were defeated by a conservative Congress and an indifferent postwar public concerned primarily with preserving the New Deal rather than with achieving new liberal breakthroughs.

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(skip primary site navigation) (skip to page detail) Home Site Map ... Gov-to-Gov State Archives (skip section navigation) State Archives Contact State Archives Records Services ... Read All About It: Articles and Essays Missouri History Harry S Truman A 50th Anniversary Commemoration of His Presidency by Robert H. Ferrell No Missourian, nor for that matter, any citizen of any of the 50 states, needs reminding that half a century ago a Missourian became president of the United States. But the passage of 50 years does give opportunity to reflect upon what Harry S Truman brought with him to the White House in 1945 and what he accomplished in the momentous eight years that followed. A Missouri Upbringing As for what he brought, it was assuredly his varied background and experiences from Missouri: growing up on a series of Missouri farms, living for a while in Independence and then for three years 1903 06 in Kansas City. Remembering his sudden rise to power and his prominent political role during World War II, people often forget that Truman served a remarkable political apprenticeship as well as a county judge and Senator before reaching the vice presidency in January 1945. These experiences shaped his character and prepared him for what, three months later, was to come. All of these things, but perhaps especially the farm, influenced Truman. As his mother once remarked, "It was on the farm that Harry got his common sense. He didn't get it in town." Truman was born in 1884, in the farm community of Lamar, 120 miles south of Kansas City, but his parents soon moved from the village to the farm. Although he lived and attended grade and high school in Independence, the later president returned to his grandparents' farm in 1906 and remained there until he left for France and World War I in 1917. He often spoke of himself as a farm boy. One can almost see him in those farm years before the war, walking or riding behind horses or mules or both, or engaged with a hoe, cleaning out the corn rows.

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