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Harry S. Truman's inaugural address, known as the Four Point Speech, was delivered by United States president Harry S. Truman, on Thursday, January 20, 1949. In a world only recently emerged from the shadow of World War II, in which freedom and human rights seemed under threat from many sides, this was Truman's response.
In 2004, the President Harry S. Truman Fellowship in National Security Science and Engineering was created as a distinguished postdoctoral three-year appointment at Sandia National Laboratories. [360] In 2001, the University of Missouri established the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs to advance the study and practice of governance. [361]
President Truman signing a proclamation declaring a national emergency and authorizing U.S. entry into the Korean War President Truman (right) and General Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island, October 1950. Following World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union occupied Korea, which had been a colony of the Japanese Empire.
At 101, Sandy Horwitz has participated in 80 general elections and 21 presidential elections. He cast his first vote in 1944 for Franklin D. Roosevelt using an absentee ballot.
Harry Truman's ascension to the presidency after Franklin Roosevelt's death was a rocky one, and it came at a pivotal time in the nation's history. Once a senator who complained that the 32nd ...
May 21 – President Truman delivers a speech to Congress in regards to his presenting the Medal of Honor to James W. Lindsey. [34] May 24 – President Truman issues a message to Congress about the executive branch's organization. [35] May 25 – President Truman holds the eighth news conference of his tenure at the White House during the ...
The second inauguration of Harry S. Truman as president of the United States was held on Thursday, January 20, 1949, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 41st inauguration and marked the commencement of the second and only full term of Harry S. Truman as president as well as the only term of Alben W ...
The 1949 State of the Union Address was given by Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, on Wednesday, January 5, 1949, to the 81st United States Congress in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. [1] It was Truman's fourth State of the Union Address.