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Truman is a 1995 American biographical drama television film directed by Frank Pierson and written by Thomas Rickman, based on David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1992 book, Truman. [1] Starring Gary Sinise as Harry S. Truman , the film centers on Truman's humble beginnings, his rise to the presidency, World War II , and his decision to ...
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years is a 1977 American Atelevision film and a sequel to Eleanor and Franklin (1976). Originally airing on March 13, 1977, it was part of a 2-part biographical film directed by Daniel Petrie based on Joseph P. Lash's Pulitzer prize-winning biography, Eleanor and Franklin, chronicling the lives of the 32nd U.S. President and the first lady.
A second film miniseries, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977), was made the following year which detailed Roosevelt's terms as president during the Great Depression and World War II, told as a series of flashback episodes as Eleanor sits with her husband's body in the back bedroom during a legendary private moment in the cottage ...
Harry S. Truman: Ed Flanders: Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking: Won Franklin D. Roosevelt Edward Herrmann Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years: Nominated 1979: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special: Woodrow Wilson: Robert Vaughn: Backstairs at the White House: Nominated Calvin Coolidge: Ed Flanders Nominated 1980
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.
Roosevelt’s successor, President Harry Truman, refused to send any of Roosevelt’s advisers — a group that included Morgenthau and aides whom Truman called “the Jew boys” — to the ...
Roosevelt's eldest son James remembered Sara telling her grandchildren, "Your mother only bore you, I am more your mother than your mother is." [41] Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt with their first two children, 1908. Roosevelt and Franklin had six children: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1906–1975) James Roosevelt II (1907–1991)
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