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Harry and Bess Truman on their wedding day, June 28, 1919. After his wartime service, Truman returned to Independence, where he married Bess Wallace on June 28, 1919. [76] The couple had one child, Mary Margaret Truman. [77] Shortly before the wedding, Truman and Jacobson opened a haberdashery together at 104 West 12th Street in downtown Kansas ...
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.
With the support of most of his aides, Truman approved the schedule of the military's plans to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hiroshima was bombed on August 6, and Nagasaki three days later, leaving approximately 135,000 dead; another 130,000 would die from radiation sickness and other bomb-related illnesses ...
The next day, Truman gave his hundredth speech from the rear platform of the train. He spoke at sixteen stops, addressing more than half a million people. [131] During the early days of October, Truman kept his specific attacks on the Congress, backed up with the daily facts supplied by Batt's research team. [132]
The convention was called to order by the permanent chairman, Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky. [2] With delegates demoralized by Republican wins in 1946 that had given them control of Congress, and what appeared to be Truman's slim chance for reelection in his own right, on July 13 Barkley gave the keynote speech, as he had in 1932 and 1936. [2]
December 28 – Truman meets with members of his family at the White House before signing 61 bills and leaving for a cruise intended to last five days. [ 136 ] December 29 – Secretary of State Byrnes travels on the USS Williamsburg in order to give President Truman a report on his trip to Moscow.
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.
[1] [2] Three days earlier, on January 3, the first live television broadcast from the House Chamber occurred during the opening session of the 80th Congress. Truman watched this broadcast on a special 10-inch television set installed in the Oval Office in preparation for his State of the Union Address which was also to be televised.