...President Harry S. Truman! Project By: Cassandra Marie Hall Dr.Mash American Government 03/22/2011 Harry S. Truman was born Missouri on May 8, 1884, His father and mother were John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen (Young) Truman. He had also had a brother Vivian Truman and a sister Mary Jane Truman Young Harry attended public schools in Independence, graduating from high school in 1901. After leaving school, he worked briefly as a timekeeper for a railroad construction contractor, then as a clerk in two Kansas City banks. In 1906 he returned to Grandview to help his father run the family farm. He continued working as a farmer for more than ten years. The religious background of President Truman, the 33rd president, was the second Baptist president. Truman did not attend a traditional school until he was eight Truman had three main interests: music, reading, and history, Truman enlisted in the Missouri Army National Guard in 1905, and served until 1911. Truman rejoined the Guard. Before going to France, he was sent to Camp Doniphan, near Lawton, Oklahoma for training. He ran the camp canteen with Edward Jacobson, a Kansas City clothing store clerk. Truman became an officer, and then battery commander in an artillery regiment in France. His unit was Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, 60th Brigade, 35th Infantry Division, known for its discipline problems.[25] During a sudden attack by the Germans in the Vosges Mountains, the battery started to disperse;...
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...Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1885. His home was Lamar Missouri. He later soon moved to Indpendence, Missouri, in 1890. HIs grandparents, Solomon Young and Anderson Shipp Truman, moved from Kentucky to Missouri way back in the 1840’s. Truman’s middle initial of “s” may come from the name Shipp. This name, of course, comes from his grandparents. Truman, as an adult, worked two weeks in a mail room called the Kansas City Star. This event took place in 1902 when he was seventeen years old. Throughout his lifetime, he was always intrested in politics. Before becoming president in 1945, he was a judge in his local courthouse, but even before that, was also a soilder in the Great War. Truman was considered the main contributer to the end of...
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...Harry S. Truman led the United States through the end of World War II. His choices during the war influenced countless other presidents' decisions. It all started when Harry S. Truman was born in the small town of Lamar, Missouri on May 8, 1884. In 1890 Harry’s Parents, John and Martha moved the family to independence Missouri. He was a very hard working student who graduated high school in 1901. He wanted to attend West Point, but because of financial issues he could not. Instead he attended a business college in Kansas City, but he was later forced to drop out because he could not afford tuition. In 1906 Truman started to work on the family farm with his father and brother. Truman worked on the farm for many years and then joined the national...
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...Impact of Interstate Commerce Commission Ricardo Ramirez AP Politics 12/19/12 Table of Contents I. Introduction: Pages: 3 - 4 II. Literature Review Pages: 5 - 8 III. Research Statement Pages: 9 – 10 IV. Research Finding Pages: 11-15 V. References Page: 16 I. Introduction The Economic collapse of the 1930’s was rebuilt by the two presidents during that era; President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry S. Truman. The economic collapse and depression of the 1930’s was caused by greed and abuse of monopoly power from industries. A wide range of Railroad industries were the cause of many secret control of small industries. The economy was not built for greed and led to many bankrupt industries. The Interstate Commerce Commissions first changed by President Roosevelt then by President Truman help increase public security in the railroad industry. The first Hoover Commission benefited safety of the executive branch and organization of government. The Great Depression is significant to the country overall and it’s an era that history will never forget. The significant presidents during that era were the reason for the rebuilding of the economy. Transportation departments are significant to our motor carrier and railroad industries today that help the public safety. The Interstate Commerce Commission is significant to railroad industries, federal railroad rates, and regulating the private...
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...Historian." The Potsdam Conference, 1945 - 1937–1945 - Milestones - Office of the Historian. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Dec. 2015. The participants were President Harry S. Truman, Premier Joseph Stalin, and Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill. They agreed on setting up a Council of foreign Ministers to organize the rebuilding of Europe, ban Nazi Party, reduce the size on Germany, divide Germany into 4 zones administered by the USA, USSR, Britain, and France. Also, they agreed on dividing Berlin as well. Source 2: "Harry Truman and the Potsdam Conference." Harry Truman and the Potsdam Conference. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2016. The Potsdam Conference lasted from July 16 to August 2nd. Truman, Stalin, and Churchill discussed the problems that were occurring in Germany, and how they were going to face them. Truman has an Atomic bomb that can be put to use on Japan. Source 3: Lazo, Caroline Evensen. Harry S. Truman. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print. Churchill and Truman knew that the military might of the Soviet Union was defeated by Germany. Both leaders were concerned that Stalin had intended to take over as much of Eastern Europe as possible. At the Potsdam Conference, Harry Truman was privately informed that the atomic bomb had been successfully tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16. Source 4: O'Neal, Michael. President Truman and the Atomic Bomb: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 1990. Print. The meeting was held just outside of Berlin. The three leaders were...
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...powerful and longstanding. The substance of the conservative movement would surprisingly rise from a liberal source. The New Deal had provided the country with stability in dire economic times with what seemed like a complete government takeover of traditional small government role. This would be where the Conservative movement would take reign. Following World War II, the American government and it’s citizens grew uneasy about the Soviet Union far more than it ever had before. The liberal administration would enact policies such as the Truman Doctrine that had been monitoring Greece's crumbling economic and political conditions, especially the rise of the Communist-led insurgency known as the National Liberation Front[2]. The new liberals failed to discern the continuity between the anti-Communist politics of Joe McCarthy and anti-Communist politics of the Truman Administration, or to understand how the rhetoric and leadership of the Truman Administration, alarmist in tone and manipulative in form, helped to create the climate that eventually led to McCarthyism[3]. The passion the liberals placed upon anticommunism was a major part in the development of the conservative movement. Before the 1950’s in America, the conservative movement was an array of ideas with little to no continuity. There...
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...forces. In the history of executive orders only two have ever been overturned by the judiciary committee, since executive orders are used to protect us in our time of need, they benefit us as a country and are great resource when decisions need to be made quickly. In 1946 President Truman enacted an executive order 9981 that desegregated the armed forces and help protect American’s civil rights. On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman orders the desegregation of the Armed Forces by Executive Order 9981. Prior to Harry Truman passing the Executive Order 9981 on February 2, 1948 and in December 1946 he appointed a distinguished panel to serve as the President's Commission on Civil Rights which would recommend more adequate means for the protection of the civil rights of the people of the United States. The Commission noted the many restrictions on blacks, and urged that each person, regardless of race, color or national origin, should have access to equal opportunity in securing education, decent housing and jobs. Harry Trumann sent a special message to Congress on February 2, 1948 calling for prompt implementation of the Commission's recommendations. Southerners were unhappy with that idea and Truman, unable to secure action from the Congress had no choice but to move ahead using his executive authority. Critics...
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...Harry S. Truman was born on May 8th, 1884 in Missouri and spent most of his childhood on his family’s farm. His name was chosen after his mother’s brother. He had a brother and a sister. Their names were john Vivian (1886-1965), and Mary Jane (1889-1978). His father’s name is john Anderson Truman (1851-1914), and his mother’s name is Martha Ellen young Truman (1846-1916). John was a livestock dealer. Harry and his family moved to a farm near harrisonville when he was 10 months old. They went on to live in Belton and in 1887 they moved to his grandparent’s 600 acre farm in Grandview. When he was 6 years old his family moved into a small town called independence, so he could attend a Presbyterian Church Sunday school. Harry did not go...
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...Truman During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman's to solve when, on April 12, 1945, he became President. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, in 1884. He grew up in Independence, and for 12 years prospered as a Missouri farmer. He went to France during World War I as a captain in the Field Artillery. Returning, he married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, and opened a haberdashery in Kansas City. Active in the Democratic Party, Truman was elected a judge of the Jackson County Court in 1922. He became a Senator in 1934. During World War II he headed the Senate war investigating committee, checking into waste and corruption and saving perhaps as much as 15 billion dollars. As President, Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in history. Soon after the war against Japan had reached its final stage. An urgent plea to Japan to surrender was rejected. Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities devoted to war work. Two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrender quickly followed. The first use of an atomic bomb in warfare took place on August 6, 1945. The weapon was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the U.S. bomber Enola Gay, instantaneously destroying four square miles in the middle of the population...
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...can be done. Congress and the Supreme Court can either challenge or help the Executive branch with every decision that comes through the White House on a daily basis. The relationship with congress during a president’s time in office is crucial to his success. Not much can get done with an entire branch of the government opposing you. If congress helps and then the Supreme Court rules that your legislation is legal than great things can come form a president’s time in office. A large portion of President Obama’s time as a leader of the nation has been spent opposing views of the republican controlled congress. Harry Truman had much of that same difficulty during his tenure. It is hard to look at the past and see the truth but after Truman’s Honey Moon phase of his relationship with congress he had difficulties dealing with the republicans there just like Obama. Truman was quoted as saying “Republicans in Washington have a habit of becoming curiously deaf to the voice of the people” in referring to Republican leaders in Washington (McCullough, p. 661). Obama would most likely agree to this. After a take over of the majority in 2011 Obama has not had significant legislation pass through congress like he did during the first part of his presidency. The Affordable Health Care Act would not have passed if it was being voted on past...
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...save or take lives. When mistakes are made at this level of care it affects public trust and someone must take responsibility for mistakes and also life saving measures. This is one of the cornerstones of the medical profession as a whole. As we have taken an oath to do no harm. Responsibility equals accountability. Accountability shows in many ways, shapes and forms. This concept also shows up in more than just the medical field, and nursing. It appears in everything from architecture, government, and even our personal lives. All throughout history the concept of accountability has appeared on the canvas. For example, President Truman embraced the term “The buck stops here”. Basically saying that instead of passing the blame or the “buck”, the responsibility lies with him as our leader and president. (The Harry S. Truman Library, n.d.). What the Literature Says During a preliminary literature search, I found the accountability concept displayed in many different disciplines and categories. For example, I found accountability mentioned in the medical field, government, sociology, psychology, and even engineering / architecture. Going a little further in a literature search accountability was even found in education and in human resources management. So in a word, the concept of accountability is found everywhere we live, work, and even in our personal relationships now and forever. This is an everlasting...
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...Potsdam Conference -June, 1945 -The Big Three (Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill/Clement Atlee, and Harry Truman) met in Potsdam, Germany because they needed to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. After the Yalta Conference (February, 1945), Stalin, Churchill, and FDR agreed to meet following the surrender of Germany to determine the postwar borders in Europe. Germany surrendered May 8, so the Allied leaders agreed to meet at Potsdam during the summer to continue discussions that had begun at Yalta. -The Leaders agreed to divide Germany and Berlin, demilitarize Germany, re-establish democracy in Germany (including free elections, a free press, and freedom of speech), make Germany repay reparations to the allies in equipment and materials, ban the Nazi Party, participate fully in the United Nations Organization, and to move Poland’s frontier westwards to the river Oder and Neisse. They disagreed about the amount of reparations (Stalin wanted more, but Truman disagreed) and free elections (Stalin didn’t want). -The relations between the USA and the USSR worsened due to lack of trust and cooperation between the leaders. They both had different ideals. -Stalin and Truman Guatemala 1954 -June, 1954 -Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, the president of Guatemala, put forth a number of new policies such as seizing and expropriating unused, unfarmed land that private corporations set aside long ago and giving land to peasants and the US intelligence community deemed the plans communist...
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...The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy: The Truman Doctrine Mark Newsome Strayer University Politics 300 Dr. Sussie Okoro 16 March 2014 The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy: The Truman Doctrine Harry S. Truman was President of the United States from 1945-1953. President Truman presidency was marked throughout by important foreign policy initiatives. Central to almost everything Truman undertook in his foreign policy was the desire to prevent the expansion of influence of the Soviet Union. At the end of World War II it was immediately apparent that Russia was trying to draw as many countries as it could into its influence, if not total control. The United States became extremely alarmed as country after country did indeed fall under Russia’s communist influences. At the time, the United States Government was under suspicion that Russia was supporting the Greek Communist was effort and worried that if Communists won in the Greek civil war, the Soviets would eventually influence Greek policy (state.gov, p1). In light of the appearance of Soviet meddling in Greek and Turkish affairs, and the withdrawal of British assistance to Greece provided the motivation for the Truman Administration to reorient American foreign policy. The Truman Doctrine was the name given to a policy announced by then United States President Harry Truman on March 12th 1947. The Truman Doctrine was a very simple warning clearly made to the Soviet Union, though the country was not mentioned by name. The United...
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...per capita on health care, and it has the most advanced medical technology system in the world, still it is not the healthiest nation on earth. The system performs so poorly that it leaves 50 million without health coverage and millions more inadequately covered (Garson, 2010). Discussion History of Medicare In 1945, the United States president Harry Truman decided to bring to the attention of the Congress. The message was in an attempt to develop a universal plan that would be applicable to all United States citizens. The Congress contemplated the bill that would establish a healthcare plan. The debate for a comprehensive plan carried on for twenty years. The prolonged wait made president Truman give up on the idea. Even though the president had given up on the healthcare bill, Social Security system and a number of other participants continued the efforts. After two decades of struggle, in 1965, the Medicare and Medicaid plans became legislation after the Congress approved the bill. President Lyndon Johnson’s vision of a “Great Society” and Harry Truman’s initial efforts materialized. It would only be fitting for Harry Truman to be the first person to enlist in Medicare. This Act became applicable to the general public and has been serving since its introduction in 1965. There is currently a debate as to what changes does the Act need to address the changing needs (Shi & Singh, 2009). Health care professionals...
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...The decision to drop the atomic bomb was very difficult, and extremely important. In the midst of the Pacific War with Japan, the United States president, Harry S. Truman, was left to decide whether or not to use the most powerful weapon at the time. Many Americans had conflicting views, striving to convince each other of their opinion on the topic. For example, while Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project, would obviously try to convince the public that the detonation of the atomic bomb was inevitable, others would disagree, going as far as to send the president petitions to try to prevent the imposing nuclear destruction. Although the American population argued both sides, Harry Truman finally decided to detonate two atomic bombs over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Following this critical decision, approximately 200,000 people perished in the two Japanese cities, leading to the Japanese surrender only a few days later. The three texts that were displayed differed from each other since the first article presented more statistical arguments in the form of logos and the second article presented more ethos and pathos approaches; however, the texts were similar since both of their purposes was to convince the president, or population, of the positive and negative effects of the atomic bomb. Although the other two articles demonstrated powerful arguments, the speech written by Robert Oppenheimer provided a more developed use of logos, pathos, and ethos, better...
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