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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.
The length of a full four-year term of office for a president of the United States usually amounts to 1,461 days (three common years of 365 days plus one leap year of 366 days). The listed number of days is calculated as the difference between dates, which counts the number of calendar days except the first day (day zero).
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 episode underscored the risks of a White House adopting the tech-inspired tactic to “move fast and break things” in its effort to remake the federal government with a flurry of actions in ...
Like Truman before him, Biden made what The New York Times rightly calls “an extraordinary use of executive power.” Like Truman, his use of that power will soon face a court challenge.
First there was Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Then, Jefferson County, Alabama. Now, hold onto your hats folks -- we could be just days away from seeing the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history ...
President Truman made a special message to Congress upon signing the act, [4] with eight reorganization plans submitted in 1949, 27 in 1950, and one each in 1951 and 1952. [ 5 ] Much implementation continued into the Eisenhower Administration , with ten reorganization plans in 1953, two in 1954, and one each in 1957 and 1958, although not all ...
The 1946 State of the Union Address was given by the 33rd president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, on Monday, January 21, 1946, to the 79th United States Congress. It was written by Samuel Rosenman [ 1 ] and is notable for being the longest State of the Union message at the time: the written speech was sent to Congress, not orally given ...