On Feb. 21, 1947, Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson was in his office when an assistant brought him two documents that had been delivered that morning by the British ambassador. Acheson would later ...
UNSPECIFIED - NOVEMBER 1948: Newly-reelected President Harry Truman gleefully displaying copy of the CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE newspaper with inaccurate early edition headline, "Dewey Defeats Truman.".
March 12 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1912, Juliette Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scouts of America troop in Savannah, Ga. In 1933, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt made the first of ...
Seventy-five years ago this past spring, on March 12, 1947, US President Harry S. Truman went before a joint session of Congress to request $400 million in military and economic support for the ...
When World War II ended in August 1945, President Harry Truman was a man in a hurry. In the final few months of that year, he pushed hard to help establish the United Nations to handle international ...
President Joe Biden faces an aggressive Russia waging war to expand its borders. He has rallied Americans to support Ukraine as it resists a devastating Russian attack. But Biden has also been careful ...
Author Truman Capote in 1959. Photo by Roger Higgins (Library of Congress) “Answered Prayers” was the title of the much-discussed and never-completed last novel of Truman Capote, based on his notion ...
President Harry Truman calls NATO a "shield against aggression" at the ceremony that established the 12-nation alliance in Washington in 1949. Truman played a central role in creating many of the ...
I am delighted to see Senator Tim Kaine (“A New Truman Doctrine,” July/August 2017) describe a bold new foreign policy strategy that balances greatness and goodness. He should further develop his ...
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