Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Truman poses in 1959 at the recreation of the Truman Oval Office at the Truman Library in 1959, with the famous "The Buck Stops Here" sign on his desk. Truman's ranking in polls of historians and political scientists have never fallen lower than ninth, and he has ranked as high as fifth in a C-SPAN poll in 2009. [307]
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.A member of the Democratic Party, he assumed the presidency after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, as he was vice president at the time.
Executive Order 9981. Executive Order 9981 was an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman.It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces.
Transferring the Office of Surplus Property of the Procurement Division of the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Commerce April 19, 1945 5 9542: Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy To Take Possession of and To Operate the Plants and Facilities of the United Engineering Company, Ltd., Located at San Francisco, California
Union leaders in the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) vigorously campaigned for Truman in the 1948 election based upon a (never fulfilled) promise to repeal Taft–Hartley. [22] Truman won, but a union-backed effort in Ohio to defeat Taft in 1950 failed in what one author described as "a shattering demonstration of labor's political ...
President Harry Truman went around a stalemated Congress 75 years ago and issued an executive order to desegregate the military, offering a crucial victory for the Civil Rights Movement.
When Truman announced that he would not seek re-election in 1952, Barkley began organizing a presidential campaign, but labor leaders refused to endorse his candidacy because of his age, and he withdrew from the race. He is the most recent Democratic vice president to never receive the party's presidential nomination.
And Jury Duty really does give Ronald the full Truman Show treatment, complete with hidden cameras and crew members, actors playing "real" people — or, in the case of James Marsden, actors ...