The Truman Doctrine (See Magazine, 1947)
“The Truman Doctrine is the only road to lasting peace. Twice within 30 years the stubbornly-observed practice of ‘minding our business’ has brought war.”
President Truman
Truman Decides to Defend South Korea (Quick Magazine, 1950)
“[Truman’s] fateful decision to send U.S. planes and ships into the Korean fighting was made with advice of Representative Walter Judd (1898 – 1994: R., Minn.). Judd had been sharply critical of U.S. Far Eastern policy on grounds that it was opening the doorto Communism. The day after fighting started, State Department officials asked Judd’s advice on procedures for helping South Korea.”
Truman’s Busiest Day (PM Tabloid, 1945)
April 14, 1945 is remembered as President Truman’s first day as Chief Executive. FDR died on the twelfth and he was sworn-in shortly after that. Just what he did with the rest of that day, much less on the thirteenth, is a mystery to me – but, let it be known here and now that his first day exercising his Presidential Authority was on the fourteenth. He met with the brass caps from the Pentagon, planned speeches, spoke on the telephone with numerous New Deal big-wigs and shook many, many hands. All involved were in agreement that it was the busiest day in his life.
Truman’s Record in the Senate (PM Tabloid, 1945)
“Down the line, since [Truman] voted in the Senate in 1935 for U.S. participation in the World Court, his positions on foreign relations and international policy have been consistently on the side of FDR and for the fight against fascism.”
Truman’s Record in the Senate (PM Tabloid, 1945)
“Down the line, since [Truman] voted in the Senate in 1935 for U.S. participation in the World Court, his positions on foreign relations and international policy have been consistently on the side of FDR and for the fight against fascism.”
The Biblicist (Pathfinder Magazine, 1950)
“Few Americans have more Bibles than Harry S Truman (he has ‘about 50’) and few quote from them with greater facility… The President seldom misses a chance to stress that only as the U.S. has faith in God can it face the future with confidence.”
The Further Education of Harry Truman (Collier’s Magazine, 1947)
President Harry Truman (1884 – 1972) Came to the presidency following the death of FDR on April 12, 1945. He said of the post, “I wasn’t briefed for the job, I had to learn it from the ground up”; by 1947, he was no longer “Roosevelt’s stand-in, reading from a New Deal script” – he was his own man and this was becoming clearer and clearer to his critics in Washington. This article, by Frank Gervasi (1908 – 1990), covers Truman’s earliest years in the White House, and his handling of some of the hotest potatoes that landed in his lap.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
”Truman’s First Ten Days” (PM Tabloid, 1945)
The left-of-center New York daily PM examined the liberal Bonafide’s of President Harry Truman and they liked what they saw.