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Thirty-third president of the United States
Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly as the 34th vice president in 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Assuming the presidency after Roosevelt's death, Truman implemented the Marshall Plan in the wake of World War II to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism. He proposed numerous progressive domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the conservative coalition that dominated the Congress.

Born

8 May 1884, in Lamar, Missouri

Died

26 Dec 1972, in Kansas City, Missouri

Articles

Truman, A-Bombs, and the Killing of Innocents, by Sheldon Richman, The Goal Is Freedom, 9 Aug 2013
Written on the 68th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, discusses whether that bombing and the previous one at Hiroshima were really necessary and whether they should be considered war crimes
Sixty-eight years ago today a president of the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a city full of innocent Japanese. It was the second time in three days that Harry Truman had done such a thing ... Appallingly, history has been kind to Truman, and people who profess a variety of political views claim to admire the "plucky" plain-speaking guy from Independence, Mo. ... [I]f Truman wasn't a mass murderer, no one was. (Truman said no to a bombing demonstration on an uninhabited island.) He was a liar too. In announcing the first bombing, he called Hiroshima an "Army base."
Related Topics: Ethics, Japan, War, World War II

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