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class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Beginning of the Cold War, 1945–1949 </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Beginning_of_the_Cold_War,_1945–1949-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Escalating_tensions,_1945–1946" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Escalating_tensions,_1945–1946"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.1 Escalating tensions, 1945–1946 </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Escalating_tensions,_1945–1946-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Truman_Doctrine" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Truman_Doctrine"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.2 Truman Doctrine </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Truman_Doctrine-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Military_reorganization_and_budgets" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Military_reorganization_and_budgets"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.3 Military reorganization and budgets </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Military_reorganization_and_budgets-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Marshall_Plan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Marshall_Plan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.4 Marshall Plan </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Marshall_Plan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Berlin_airlift" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Berlin_airlift"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.5 Berlin airlift </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Berlin_airlift-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-NATO" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#NATO"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.6 NATO </div> </a> <ul id="toc-NATO-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Latin_America_and_Argentina" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Latin_America_and_Argentina"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3 Latin America and Argentina </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Latin_America_and_Argentina-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Asia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Asia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.4 Asia </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Asia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Recognition_of_Israel" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Recognition_of_Israel"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.4.1 Recognition of Israel </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Recognition_of_Israel-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-China" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#China"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.4.2 China </div> </a> <ul id="toc-China-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Japan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Japan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.4.3 Japan </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Japan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Southeast_Asia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Southeast_Asia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.4.4 Southeast Asia </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Southeast_Asia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Korean_War" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Korean_War"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.5 Korean War </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Korean_War-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Outbreak_of_the_war" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Outbreak_of_the_war"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.5.1 Outbreak of the war </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Outbreak_of_the_war-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Stalemate_and_dismissal_of_MacArthur" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Stalemate_and_dismissal_of_MacArthur"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.5.2 Stalemate and dismissal of MacArthur </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Stalemate_and_dismissal_of_MacArthur-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-List_of_international_trips" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#List_of_international_trips"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.6 List of international trips </div> </a> <ul id="toc-List_of_international_trips-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Domestic_affairs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Domestic_affairs"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Domestic affairs </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Domestic_affairs-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Domestic affairs subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Domestic_affairs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Reconversion_and_labor_strife" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Reconversion_and_labor_strife"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1 Reconversion and labor strife </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Reconversion_and_labor_strife-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Reconversion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Reconversion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1.1 Reconversion </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Reconversion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Labor_unrest" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Labor_unrest"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1.2 Labor unrest </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Labor_unrest-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Higher_education_and_veterans_benefits" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Higher_education_and_veterans_benefits"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2 Higher education and veterans benefits </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Higher_education_and_veterans_benefits-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-G.I._Bill" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#G.I._Bill"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2.1 G.I. Bill </div> </a> <ul id="toc-G.I._Bill-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Commission_on_Higher_Education_for_American_Democracy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Commission_on_Higher_Education_for_American_Democracy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2.2 Commission on Higher Education for American Democracy </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Commission_on_Higher_Education_for_American_Democracy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-80th_Congress_and_the_Taft–Hartley_Act" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#80th_Congress_and_the_Taft–Hartley_Act"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3 80th Congress and the Taft–Hartley Act </div> </a> <ul id="toc-80th_Congress_and_the_Taft–Hartley_Act-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Fair_Deal" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Fair_Deal"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.4 Fair Deal </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Fair_Deal-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Civil_rights" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Civil_rights"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.4.1 Civil rights </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Civil_rights-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Health_insurance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Health_insurance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.4.2 Health insurance </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Health_insurance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Crime_and_corruption" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Crime_and_corruption"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.5 Crime and corruption </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Crime_and_corruption-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Domestic_responses_to_the_Cold_War" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Domestic_responses_to_the_Cold_War"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.6 Domestic responses to the Cold War </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Domestic_responses_to_the_Cold_War-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Anticommunist_liberalism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Anticommunist_liberalism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.6.1 Anticommunist liberalism </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Anticommunist_liberalism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Soviet_espionage_and_McCarthyism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Soviet_espionage_and_McCarthyism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.6.2 Soviet espionage and McCarthyism </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Soviet_espionage_and_McCarthyism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Immigration" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Immigration"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.7 Immigration </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Immigration-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Failed_seizure_of_steel_mills" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Failed_seizure_of_steel_mills"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.8 Failed seizure of steel mills </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Failed_seizure_of_steel_mills-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Territories_and_dependencies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Territories_and_dependencies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.9 Territories and dependencies </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Territories_and_dependencies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Elections_during_the_Truman_presidency" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Elections_during_the_Truman_presidency"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Elections during the Truman presidency </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Elections_during_the_Truman_presidency-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Elections during the Truman presidency subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Elections_during_the_Truman_presidency-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-1946_mid-term_elections" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1946_mid-term_elections"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.1 1946 mid-term elections </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1946_mid-term_elections-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1948_election_campaign" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1948_election_campaign"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.2 1948 election campaign </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1948_election_campaign-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1950_mid-term_elections" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1950_mid-term_elections"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.3 1950 mid-term elections </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1950_mid-term_elections-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1952_elections_and_transition_period" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1952_elections_and_transition_period"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.4 1952 elections and transition period </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1952_elections_and_transition_period-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Initial_Truman_campaign_and_withdrawal" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Initial_Truman_campaign_and_withdrawal"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.4.1 Initial Truman campaign and withdrawal </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Initial_Truman_campaign_and_withdrawal-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-General_election_and_transition_period" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#General_election_and_transition_period"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.4.2 General election and transition period </div> </a> <ul id="toc-General_election_and_transition_period-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Historical_reputation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Historical_reputation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Historical reputation </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Historical_reputation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Notes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item 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id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Truman's_roles,_politics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Truman's_roles,_politics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11.1 Truman's roles, politics </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Truman's_roles,_politics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Foreign_and_military_policy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Foreign_and_military_policy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11.2 Foreign and military policy </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Foreign_and_military_policy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Historiography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Historiography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11.3 Historiography </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Historiography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Primary_sources" class="vector-toc-list-item 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Truman April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Cabinet</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="#Administration">See list</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Election</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1948_United_States_presidential_election" title="1948 United States presidential election">1948</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Seat_of_government" title="Seat of government">Seat</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="line-height:normal; padding-top:1px;"><div style="width:100%"><div style="float: left; text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt,_third_and_fourth_terms" title="Presidency of Franklin D. 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><table class="sidebar nomobile sidebar-person vcard hlist" style="border-color: #d69d36"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title"><table><tbody><tr> <td class="sidebar-person-title-image" style="background-color: #002466;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/File:Harry_Truman_face_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Harry_Truman_face_%28cropped%29.jpg/75px-Harry_Truman_face_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="75" height="98" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Harry_Truman_face_%28cropped%29.jpg/113px-Harry_Truman_face_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Harry_Truman_face_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-Harry_Truman_face_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="632" data-file-height="826" /></a></td> <td class="sidebar-person-title" style="background-color: #002466;color: #FFF;"><div>This article is part of a series about</div><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman">Harry S. Truman</a></td> </tr></tbody></table></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#Early_life,_family,_and_education" title="Harry S. Truman">Early life</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="Electoral history of Harry S. Truman">Electoral history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman">Assassination attempt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#Legacy" title="Harry S. Truman">Legacy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Truman_Day" title="Truman Day">Truman Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_Scholarship" title="Harry S. Truman Scholarship">Scholarship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Harry_S._Truman" title="USS Harry S. Truman">USS Harry S. Truman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truman_Reservoir" title="Truman Reservoir">Truman Reservoir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_Little_White_House" title="Harry S. Truman Little White House">Little White House</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="Bibliography of Harry S. Truman">Bibliography</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">Senator from <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#U.S._Senator_from_Missouri" title="Harry S. Truman">Senate career</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Truman_Committee" title="Truman Committee">Truman Committee</a></li></ul></li> <li>Senate elections <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1934_United_States_Senate_election_in_Missouri" title="1934 United States Senate election in Missouri">1934</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_Senate_election_in_Missouri" title="1940 United States Senate election in Missouri">1940</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">33rd President of the United States</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Presidency</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Harry_S._Truman_presidency" title="Timeline of the Harry S. Truman presidency">timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_executive_actions_by_Harry_S._Truman" title="List of executive actions by Harry S. Truman">Executive actions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_Harry_S._Truman_administration" title="Foreign policy of the Harry S. Truman administration">Foreign policy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Truman_Doctrine" title="Truman Doctrine">Truman Doctrine</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#International_trips">international trips</a></li></ul></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Cabinet">Cabinet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Harry_S._Truman" title="List of federal judges appointed by Harry S. Truman">Judicial appointments</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_Supreme_Court_candidates" title="Harry S. Truman Supreme Court candidates">Supreme Court candidates</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">First term</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="First inauguration of Harry S. Truman">First inauguration</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" title="Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki">Atomic bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshall_Plan" title="Marshall Plan">Marshall Plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strike_wave_of_1945%E2%80%931946" class="mw-redirect" title="Strike wave of 1945–1946">Strike wave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Mental_Health_Act" title="National Mental Health Act">Mental Health Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Conference" title="Potsdam Conference">Potsdam Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_NATO#Beginnings" title="History of NATO">NATO</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Timeline <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Harry_S._Truman_presidency#1945" title="Timeline of the Harry S. Truman presidency">'45</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Harry_S._Truman_presidency#1946" title="Timeline of the Harry S. Truman presidency">'46</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Harry_S._Truman_presidency#1947" title="Timeline of the Harry S. Truman presidency">'47</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Harry_S._Truman_presidency#1948" title="Timeline of the Harry S. Truman presidency">'48</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">Second term</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="Second inauguration of Harry S. Truman">Second inauguration</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_Act_of_1949" title="Housing Act of 1949">Housing Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fair_Deal" title="Fair Deal">Fair Deal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherman_Minton_Supreme_Court_nomination" title="Sherman Minton Supreme Court nomination">Sherman Minton Supreme Court nomination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_steel_strike" title="1952 steel strike">Steel strike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_Puerto_Rican_constitutional_referendum" title="1952 Puerto Rican constitutional referendum">Puerto Rican referendum</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Timeline <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Harry_S._Truman_presidency#1949" title="Timeline of the Harry S. Truman presidency">'49</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Harry_S._Truman_presidency#1950" title="Timeline of the Harry S. Truman presidency">'50</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Harry_S._Truman_presidency#1951" title="Timeline of the Harry S. Truman presidency">'51</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Harry_S._Truman_presidency#1952_–_January_1953" title="Timeline of the Harry S. Truman presidency">'52–'53</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">Presidential and Vice presidential campaigns</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li>1944 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1944_Democratic_Party_vice_presidential_candidate_selection" title="1944 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection">campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1944_Democratic_National_Convention#The_vice-presidential_nomination" title="1944 Democratic National Convention">convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1944_United_States_presidential_election" title="1944 United States presidential election">election</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>1948 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1948_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1948 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1948 Democratic National Convention">convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_1948_presidential_campaign" title="Harry S. Truman 1948 presidential campaign">campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_United_States_presidential_election" title="1948 United States presidential election">election</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman" title="Dewey Defeats Truman">Dewey Defeats Truman</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>1952 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1952_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1952 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_Democratic_National_Convention#Presidential_balloting" title="1952 Democratic National Convention">convention</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">Post-presidency</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_Presidential_Library_and_Museum" title="Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum">Presidential library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#Death" title="Harry S. Truman">Death</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_National_Historic_Site" title="Harry S. Truman National Historic Site">National historic Site</a></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div class="skin-invert-image"><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman's signature"><img alt="Harry S. Truman's signature" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Harry_S_Truman_Signature.svg/150px-Harry_S_Truman_Signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="61" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Harry_S_Truman_Signature.svg/225px-Harry_S_Truman_Signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Harry_S_Truman_Signature.svg/300px-Harry_S_Truman_Signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="184" data-file-height="75" /></a></div> <img alt="Seal of the President of the United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Seal_of_the_President_of_the_United_States.svg/70px-Seal_of_the_President_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="70" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Seal_of_the_President_of_the_United_States.svg/105px-Seal_of_the_President_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Seal_of_the_President_of_the_United_States.svg/140px-Seal_of_the_President_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2424" data-file-height="2425" /></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Harry_S._Truman_series" title="Template:Harry S. 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He had been <a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">vice president</a> for only 82 days when he succeeded to the presidency. Truman, a <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrat</a> from <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a>, ran for and won a full four-year term in the <a href="/wiki/1948_United_States_presidential_election" title="1948 United States presidential election">1948 presidential election</a>, in which he narrowly defeated <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> nominee <a href="/wiki/Thomas_E._Dewey" title="Thomas E. Dewey">Thomas E. Dewey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dixiecrat" title="Dixiecrat">Dixiecrat</a> nominee <a href="/wiki/Strom_Thurmond" title="Strom Thurmond">Strom Thurmond</a>. Although exempted from the newly ratified <a href="/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution">Twenty-second Amendment</a>, Truman withdrew his bid for a second full term in the <a href="/wiki/1952_United_States_presidential_election" title="1952 United States presidential election">1952 presidential election</a> because of his low popularity. He was succeeded by Republican <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>. Truman's presidency was a turning point in foreign affairs, as the United States engaged in an internationalist foreign policy and renounced <a href="/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism" title="United States non-interventionism">isolationism</a>. During his first year in office, Truman approved the <a href="/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" title="Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki">atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki</a> and subsequently accepted the <a href="/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan" title="Surrender of Japan">surrender of Japan</a>, which marked the end of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. In the <a href="/wiki/Aftermath_of_World_War_II" title="Aftermath of World War II">aftermath of World War II</a>, he helped establish the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> and other post-war institutions. Relations with the Soviet Union declined after 1945, and by 1947 the two countries had entered a long period of tension and war preparation known as the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>, during which a hot fighting war with Moscow was avoided. Truman broke with Roosevelt's prior vice president <a href="/wiki/Henry_A._Wallace" title="Henry A. Wallace">Henry A. Wallace</a>, who called for friendship with Moscow and ran as the presidential candidate of <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1948%E2%80%931955)" title="Progressive Party (United States, 1948–1955)">Progressive Party</a> in 1948. In 1947, Truman promulgated the <a href="/wiki/Truman_Doctrine" title="Truman Doctrine">Truman Doctrine</a>, which called for the United States to prevent the spread of <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Communism</a> through foreign aid to Greece and Turkey. In 1948 the Republican-controlled Congress approved the <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Plan" title="Marshall Plan">Marshall Plan</a>, a massive financial aid package designed to rebuild Western Europe. In 1949, the Truman administration designed and presided over the creation of <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a>, a military alliance of Western countries designed to prevent the further westward expansion of Soviet power. Truman proposed an ambitious domestic liberal agenda known as the <a href="/wiki/Fair_Deal" title="Fair Deal">Fair Deal</a>. However nearly all his initiatives were blocked by the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_coalition" title="Conservative coalition">conservative coalition</a> of Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats. Republicans took control of Congress in the 1946 elections after the <a href="/wiki/Strike_wave_of_1945%E2%80%9346" class="mw-redirect" title="Strike wave of 1945–46">strike wave of 1945–46</a>. Truman suffered another major defeat by the conservative coalition when the 80th Congress passed the <a href="/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act" title="Taft–Hartley Act">Taft–Hartley Act</a> into law over his veto. It reversed some of the pro-labor union legislation that was central to the New Deal. When <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Taft" title="Robert A. Taft">Robert A. Taft</a>, the conservative Republican senator, unexpectedly supported the <a href="/wiki/Housing_Act_of_1949" title="Housing Act of 1949">Housing Act of 1949</a>, Truman achieved one new liberal program. Truman took a strong stance on civil rights, ordering equal rights in the military to the disgust of the white politicians in the Deep South. They supported a "<a href="/wiki/Dixiecrat" title="Dixiecrat">Dixiecrat</a>" third-party candidate, <a href="/wiki/Strom_Thurmond" title="Strom Thurmond">Strom Thurmond</a>, in 1948. Truman later pushed for the integration of the military in the 1950s. During his presidency, fears of Soviet espionage led to a <a href="/wiki/Red_Scare" title="Red Scare">Red Scare</a>; Truman denounced those who made unfounded accusations of Soviet sympathies, but also purged left-wing federal employees who refused to disavow Communism. When Communist <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> invaded <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a> in 1950, Truman sent U.S. troops to prevent the fall of South Korea. After initial successes, however, the war settled into a stalemate that lasted throughout the final years of Truman's presidency. Truman left office as one of the most unpopular presidents of the twentieth century, mainly due to the Korean War and his then controversial decision to <a href="/wiki/Relief_of_Douglas_MacArthur" title="Relief of Douglas MacArthur">dismiss</a> General <a href="/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur" title="Douglas MacArthur">Douglas MacArthur</a>, resulting in a huge loss of support. In the 1952 presidential election, Eisenhower successfully campaigned against what he denounced as Truman's failures: "Korea, Communism and Corruption". Nonetheless, Truman retained a strong reputation among scholars, and his public reputation eventually recovered in the 1960s. In polls of historians and political scientists, Truman is generally <a href="/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States" title="Historical rankings of presidents of the United States">ranked</a> as one of the ten greatest presidents. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Accession">Accession</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Accession">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="First inauguration of Harry S. Truman">First inauguration of Harry S. Truman</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt,_third_and_fourth_terms" title="Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, third and fourth terms">Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, third and fourth terms</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Harry_S._Truman_taking_the_oath_of_office.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Harry_S._Truman_taking_the_oath_of_office.jpg/260px-Harry_S._Truman_taking_the_oath_of_office.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Harry_S._Truman_taking_the_oath_of_office.jpg/390px-Harry_S._Truman_taking_the_oath_of_office.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Harry_S._Truman_taking_the_oath_of_office.jpg/520px-Harry_S._Truman_taking_the_oath_of_office.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2918" data-file-height="1304" /></a><figcaption>Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President of the United States by <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" title="Chief Justice of the United States">Chief Justice</a> <a href="/wiki/Harlan_F._Stone" title="Harlan F. Stone">Harlan F. Stone</a> in the White House <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Room_(White_House)" title="Cabinet Room (White House)">Cabinet Room</a>, while Bess Truman looks on.</figcaption></figure> President <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> sought re-election in the <a href="/wiki/1944_United_States_presidential_election" title="1944 United States presidential election">1944 presidential election</a>. Roosevelt personally favored either incumbent Vice President <a href="/wiki/Henry_A._Wallace" title="Henry A. Wallace">Henry A. Wallace</a> or <a href="/wiki/James_F._Byrnes" title="James F. Byrnes">James F. Byrnes</a> as his running mate. However, Wallace was unpopular among conservatives in the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a>. Byrnes, an ex-Catholic, was opposed by many liberals and Catholics. At the behest of party leaders, Roosevelt agreed to run with Truman, who was acceptable to all factions of the party, and Truman was nominated for vice president at the <a href="/wiki/1944_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1944 Democratic National Convention">1944 Democratic National Convention</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy19848–9-1">[1]</a> Democrats retained control of Congress and the presidency in the <a href="/wiki/1944_United_States_elections" title="1944 United States elections">1944 elections</a>, and Truman took office as vice president in January 1945. He had no major role in the administration and was not informed of key developments, such as the atomic bomb. On April 12, 1945, Truman was urgently summoned to the White House, where he was met by <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt" title="Eleanor Roosevelt">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>, who informed him that the President was dead. Shocked, Truman asked Mrs. Roosevelt, "Is there anything I can do for you?", to which she replied: "Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCullough1992425-2">[2]</a> The day after assuming office Truman spoke to reporters: "Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now. I don't know if you fellas ever had a load of hay fall on you, but when they told me what happened yesterday, I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCullough1992436-3">[3]</a> Bipartisan favorable opinion gave the new president a honeymoon.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Administration">Administration</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Administration">edit</a>]</div> Truman delegated a great deal of authority to his cabinet officials, only insisting that he give the final formal approval to all decisions. After getting rid of the Roosevelt holdovers, the cabinet members were mostly old confidants. The White House was badly understaffed with no more than a dozen aides; they could barely keep up with the heavy work flow of a greatly expanded executive department. Truman acted as his own chief of staff, as well as his own liaison with Congress—a body he already knew very well. Less important matters he delegated to his Special Counsels, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Rosenman" title="Samuel Rosenman">Samuel Rosenman</a> in 1945–46, <a href="/wiki/Clark_Clifford" title="Clark Clifford">Clark Clifford</a> in 1946 to 1950 and <a href="/wiki/Charles_S._Murphy" title="Charles S. Murphy">Charles S. Murphy</a> in 1950 to 1953. He was not well prepared to deal with the press. Filled with latent anger about all the setbacks in his career, he bitterly mistrusted the journalists, seeing them as enemies laying in wait for his next careless miscue. Truman was a very hard worker, often to the point of exhaustion, which left him testy and on the verge of appearing unpresidential. He discussed major issue in depth with cabinet and other advisors, such as the atom bomb, the Truman Plan, the Korean war, or the dismissal of General MacArthur. He mastered the details of the federal budget as well as anyone. Truman's myopia made it hard to read a typescript, and he was poor at prepared addresses. However, his visible anger made him an effective stump speaker, denouncing his enemies as his supporters hollered back at him, “Give Em Hell, Harry!”<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Harry-Truman-Cabinet-Jan-1949.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Harry-Truman-Cabinet-Jan-1949.jpg/220px-Harry-Truman-Cabinet-Jan-1949.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Harry-Truman-Cabinet-Jan-1949.jpg/330px-Harry-Truman-Cabinet-Jan-1949.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Harry-Truman-Cabinet-Jan-1949.jpg/440px-Harry-Truman-Cabinet-Jan-1949.jpg 2x" data-file-width="870" data-file-height="677" /></a><figcaption>Truman's Cabinet, 1949</figcaption></figure> <table class="infobox" style="width:auto;text-align:left;line-height:1.2em;margin-left:1em; margin-right:0; float:right; clear:right;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="3" style="line-height:1.5em;font-size:110%;background:#DCDCDC;text-align:center">The Truman cabinet</th></tr><tr><th>Office</th><th>Name</th><th>Term</th></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#000"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman">Harry S. Truman</a></th><td>1945–1953</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold">none</th><td>1945–1949</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Alben_W._Barkley" title="Alben W. Barkley">Alben W. Barkley</a></th><td>1949–1953</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">Secretary of State</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Stettinius_Jr." title="Edward Stettinius Jr.">Edward Stettinius Jr.</a></th><td>1945</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/James_F._Byrnes" title="James F. Byrnes">James F. Byrnes</a></th><td>1945–1947</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/George_C._Marshall" title="George C. Marshall">George C. Marshall</a></th><td>1947–1949</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Dean_Acheson" title="Dean Acheson">Dean Acheson</a></th><td>1949–1953</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Treasury" title="United States Secretary of the Treasury">Secretary of the Treasury</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Morgenthau_Jr." title="Henry Morgenthau Jr.">Henry Morgenthau Jr.</a></th><td>1945</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Fred_M._Vinson" title="Fred M. Vinson">Fred M. Vinson</a></th><td>1945–1946</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/John_Wesley_Snyder" title="John Wesley Snyder">John Wesley Snyder</a></th><td>1946–1953</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_War" title="United States Secretary of War">Secretary of War</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Henry_L._Stimson" title="Henry L. Stimson">Henry L. Stimson</a></th><td>1945</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Robert_P._Patterson" title="Robert P. Patterson">Robert P. Patterson</a></th><td>1945–1947</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Claiborne_Royall" title="Kenneth Claiborne Royall">Kenneth Claiborne Royall</a></th><td>1947</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense">Secretary of Defense</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/James_Forrestal" title="James Forrestal">James Forrestal</a></th><td>1947–1949</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Louis_A._Johnson" title="Louis A. Johnson">Louis A. Johnson</a></th><td>1949–1950</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/George_C._Marshall" title="George C. Marshall">George C. Marshall</a></th><td>1950–1951</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Lovett" title="Robert A. Lovett">Robert A. Lovett</a></th><td>1951–1953</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General" title="United States Attorney General">Attorney General</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Biddle" title="Francis Biddle">Francis Biddle</a></th><td>1945</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Tom_C._Clark" title="Tom C. Clark">Tom C. Clark</a></th><td>1945–1949</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/J._Howard_McGrath" title="J. Howard McGrath">J. Howard McGrath</a></th><td>1949–1952</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/James_P._McGranery" title="James P. McGranery">James P. McGranery</a></th><td>1952–1953</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Postmaster_General" title="United States Postmaster General">Postmaster General</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Frank_C._Walker" title="Frank C. Walker">Frank C. Walker</a></th><td>1945</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Hannegan" title="Robert E. Hannegan">Robert E. Hannegan</a></th><td>1945–1947</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Jesse_M._Donaldson" title="Jesse M. Donaldson">Jesse M. Donaldson</a></th><td>1947–1953</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Navy" title="United States Secretary of the Navy">Secretary of the Navy</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/James_Forrestal" title="James Forrestal">James Forrestal</a></th><td>1945–1947</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior" title="United States Secretary of the Interior">Secretary of the Interior</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Harold_L._Ickes" title="Harold L. Ickes">Harold L. Ickes</a></th><td>1945–1946</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Julius_Albert_Krug" title="Julius Albert Krug">Julius Albert Krug</a></th><td>1946–1949</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Oscar_L._Chapman" title="Oscar L. Chapman">Oscar L. Chapman</a></th><td>1949–1953</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Agriculture" title="United States Secretary of Agriculture">Secretary of Agriculture</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Claude_R._Wickard" title="Claude R. Wickard">Claude R. Wickard</a></th><td>1945</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Clinton_Anderson" title="Clinton Anderson">Clinton Anderson</a></th><td>1945–1948</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Charles_F._Brannan" title="Charles F. Brannan">Charles F. Brannan</a></th><td>1948–1953</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Commerce" title="United States Secretary of Commerce">Secretary of Commerce</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Henry_A._Wallace" title="Henry A. Wallace">Henry A. Wallace</a></th><td>1945–1946</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/W._Averell_Harriman" title="W. Averell Harriman">W. Averell Harriman</a></th><td>1946–1948</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Charles_W._Sawyer" title="Charles W. Sawyer">Charles W. Sawyer</a></th><td>1948–1953</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Labor" title="United States Secretary of Labor">Secretary of Labor</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Frances_Perkins" title="Frances Perkins">Frances Perkins</a></th><td>1945</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Lewis_B._Schwellenbach" title="Lewis B. Schwellenbach">Lewis B. Schwellenbach</a></th><td>1945–1948</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Maurice_J._Tobin" title="Maurice J. Tobin">Maurice J. Tobin</a></th><td>1948–1953</td></tr></tbody></table> At first Truman asked all the members of Roosevelt's cabinet to remain in place for the time being, but by the end of 1946 only one Roosevelt appointee, Secretary of the Navy <a href="/wiki/James_Forrestal" title="James Forrestal">James Forrestal</a>, remained.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCullough1992366-7">[7]</a> <a href="/wiki/Fred_M._Vinson" title="Fred M. Vinson">Fred M. Vinson</a> succeeded Treasury Secretary <a href="/wiki/Henry_Morgenthau_Jr." title="Henry Morgenthau Jr.">Henry Morgenthau Jr.</a> in July 1945. Truman appointed Vinson to the Supreme Court in 1946 and <a href="/wiki/John_Wesley_Snyder" title="John Wesley Snyder">John Wesley Snyder</a> was named as the Treasury Secretary.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198463–64-8">[8]</a> Truman quickly replaced Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/Edward_Stettinius_Jr." title="Edward Stettinius Jr.">Edward Stettinius Jr.</a> with James F. Byrnes, an old friend from Senate days. However Byrnes soon lost Truman's trust with his conciliatory policy towards Moscow in late 1945,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008599–603-9">[9]</a> and he was replaced by former General <a href="/wiki/George_Marshall" class="mw-redirect" title="George Marshall">George Marshall</a> in January 1947. Undersecretary of State <a href="/wiki/Dean_Acheson" title="Dean Acheson">Dean Acheson</a> was the main force in foreign affairs along with a group of advisers known as the "<a href="/wiki/The_Wise_Men_(book)" title="The Wise Men (book)">Wise Men</a>," Marshall emerged as the face of Truman's foreign policy.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008612–613-10">[10]</a> In 1947, Forrestal became the first <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense">Secretary of Defense</a>, overseeing all branches of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" title="United States Armed Forces">United States Armed Forces</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008613–614-11">[11]</a> A mental breakdown sent him into retirement in 1949, and he was replaced successively by <a href="/wiki/Louis_A._Johnson" title="Louis A. Johnson">Louis A. Johnson</a>, Marshall, and finally <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Lovett" title="Robert A. Lovett">Robert A. Lovett</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984148–149-12">[12]</a> Acheson was Secretary of State 1949–1953. Truman often appointed longtime personal friends, sometimes to positions well beyond their competence. Such friends included Vinson, Snyder, and military aide <a href="/wiki/Harry_H._Vaughan" title="Harry H. Vaughan">Harry H. Vaughan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCullough1992366-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHamby1995301–302,_472-13">[13]</a> Outside of the cabinet, <a href="/wiki/Clark_Clifford" title="Clark Clifford">Clark Clifford</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_R._Steelman" title="John R. Steelman">John R. Steelman</a> were staffers who handled lesser matters while Truman acted as his own chief off staff on big issues.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984146-14">[14]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vice_presidency">Vice presidency</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Vice presidency">edit</a>]</div> The office of vice president remained vacant during Truman's first (3 years, 253 days partial) term, as the Constitution then had no provision for filling a vacancy prior to the 1967 ratification of the <a href="/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Twenty-fifth Amendment</a>. Until the passage of the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Succession_Act" title="Presidential Succession Act">Presidential Succession Act</a> of 1947, the Secretary of State was next in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession" title="United States presidential line of succession">presidential line of succession</a>. After the passage of the act in July 1947, the <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the House</a> became the next-in-line. During different points of Truman's first term, Secretary of State Stettinius, Secretary of State Byrnes, Secretary of State Marshall, Speaker <a href="/wiki/Joseph_William_Martin_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph William Martin Jr.">Joseph Martin</a>, and Speaker <a href="/wiki/Sam_Rayburn" title="Sam Rayburn">Sam Rayburn</a> would have succeeded to the presidency if Truman left office. <a href="/wiki/Alben_Barkley" class="mw-redirect" title="Alben Barkley">Alben Barkley</a> served as Truman's running mate in the 1948 election, and became vice president during Truman's second term. Truman included him in Cabinet deliberations.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Judicial_appointments">Judicial appointments</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Judicial appointments">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_Supreme_Court_candidates" title="Harry S. Truman Supreme Court candidates">Harry S. Truman Supreme Court candidates</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Harry_S._Truman" title="List of federal judges appointed by Harry S. Truman">List of federal judges appointed by Harry S. Truman</a></div> Truman made four appointments to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court">United States Supreme Court</a>.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> After the retirement of <a href="/wiki/Owen_Roberts" title="Owen Roberts">Owen Roberts</a> in 1945, Truman appointed Republican Senator <a href="/wiki/Harold_Hitz_Burton" class="mw-redirect" title="Harold Hitz Burton">Harold Hitz Burton</a> of Ohio to the Supreme Court. Roberts was the lone remaining justice on the Supreme Court who had not been appointed or elevated to the position of <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" title="Chief Justice of the United States">chief justice</a> by Roosevelt, and Truman believed it was important to nominate a Republican to succeed Roberts. Chief Justice <a href="/wiki/Harlan_F._Stone" title="Harlan F. Stone">Harlan F. Stone</a> died in 1946, and Truman appointed Secretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson as Stone's successor. Two vacancies arose in 1949 due to deaths of <a href="/wiki/Frank_Murphy" title="Frank Murphy">Frank Murphy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wiley_Blount_Rutledge" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiley Blount Rutledge">Wiley Blount Rutledge</a>. Truman appointed Attorney General <a href="/wiki/Tom_C._Clark" title="Tom C. Clark">Tom C. Clark</a> to succeed Murphy and federal appellate judge <a href="/wiki/Sherman_Minton" title="Sherman Minton">Sherman Minton</a> to succeed Rutledge. Vinson served for just seven years before his death in 1953, while Minton resigned from the Supreme Court in 1956. Burton served until 1958, often joining the conservative bloc led by <a href="/wiki/Felix_Frankfurter" title="Felix Frankfurter">Felix Frankfurter</a>. Clark served until 1967, emerging as an important swing vote on the <a href="/wiki/Vinson_Court" title="Vinson Court">Vinson Court</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Warren_Court" title="Warren Court">Warren Court</a>.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> In addition to his Supreme Court appointments, Truman also appointed 27 judges to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_courts_of_appeals" title="United States courts of appeals">courts of appeals</a> and 101 judges to <a href="/wiki/United_States_district_court" title="United States district court">federal district courts</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="End_of_World_War_II">End of World War II</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: End of World War II">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" title="Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki">Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki</a></div> By April 1945, the <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied Powers</a> were close to defeating <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Germany</a>, but <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Japan</a> remained a formidable adversary in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_War" title="Pacific War">Pacific War</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198421–22-18">[18]</a> As vice president, Truman had been uninformed about major initiatives relating to the war, including the top-secret <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_Project" title="Manhattan Project">Manhattan Project</a>, which was about to test the world's first atomic bomb.<a href="#cite_note-bernstein1-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> Although Truman was told briefly on the afternoon of April 12 that the Allies had a new, highly destructive weapon, it was not until April 25 that Secretary of War <a href="/wiki/Henry_Stimson" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Stimson">Henry Stimson</a> told him the details of the atomic bomb, which was almost ready.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200819–20-21">[21]</a> Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945, ending the war in Europe. Truman's attention turned to the Pacific, where he hoped to end the war as quickly, and with as little expense in lives or government funds, as possible.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198421–22-18">[18]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-29645-0001,_Potsdamer_Konferenz,_Stalin,_Truman,_Churchill.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Three men in suits standing with several men in the background" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-29645-0001%2C_Potsdamer_Konferenz%2C_Stalin%2C_Truman%2C_Churchill.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-29645-0001%2C_Potsdamer_Konferenz%2C_Stalin%2C_Truman%2C_Churchill.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-29645-0001%2C_Potsdamer_Konferenz%2C_Stalin%2C_Truman%2C_Churchill.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-29645-0001%2C_Potsdamer_Konferenz%2C_Stalin%2C_Truman%2C_Churchill.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-29645-0001%2C_Potsdamer_Konferenz%2C_Stalin%2C_Truman%2C_Churchill.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-29645-0001%2C_Potsdamer_Konferenz%2C_Stalin%2C_Truman%2C_Churchill.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2922" data-file-height="2335" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>, Harry S. Truman, and <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> in Potsdam, July 1945</figcaption></figure> With the end of the war drawing near, Truman flew to Berlin for the <a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Conference" title="Potsdam Conference">Potsdam Conference</a>, to meet with Soviet leader <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> and British leader <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> regarding the <a href="/wiki/Aftermath_of_World_War_II" title="Aftermath of World War II">post-war order</a>. Several major decisions were made at the Potsdam Conference: Germany would be divided into four occupation zones (among the three powers and <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>), Germany's border was to be shifted west to the <a href="/wiki/Oder%E2%80%93Neisse_line" title="Oder–Neisse line">Oder–Neisse line</a>, a Soviet-backed <a href="/wiki/Provisional_Government_of_National_Unity" title="Provisional Government of National Unity">group</a> was recognized as the legitimate government of Poland, and <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a> was to be partitioned at the 16th parallel.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> The Soviet Union also agreed to <a href="/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria" title="Soviet invasion of Manchuria">launch an invasion</a> of Japanese-held <a href="/wiki/Manchuria" title="Manchuria">Manchuria</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198423–24-23">[23]</a> While at the Potsdam Conference, Truman was informed that the <a href="/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)" title="Trinity (nuclear test)">Trinity test</a> of the first atomic bomb on July 16 had been successful. He hinted to Stalin that the U.S. was about to use a new kind of weapon against the Japanese. Though this was the first time the Soviets had been officially given information about the atomic bomb, Stalin was already aware of the bomb project, having learned about it through <a href="/wiki/Atomic_spies" title="Atomic spies">espionage</a> long before Truman did.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Photograph_of_President_Truman_in_the_Oval_Office,_reading_the_announcement_of_Japan%27s_surrender_to_assembled..._-_NARA_-_199171.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Photograph_of_President_Truman_in_the_Oval_Office%2C_reading_the_announcement_of_Japan%27s_surrender_to_assembled..._-_NARA_-_199171.jpg/220px-Photograph_of_President_Truman_in_the_Oval_Office%2C_reading_the_announcement_of_Japan%27s_surrender_to_assembled..._-_NARA_-_199171.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Photograph_of_President_Truman_in_the_Oval_Office%2C_reading_the_announcement_of_Japan%27s_surrender_to_assembled..._-_NARA_-_199171.jpg/330px-Photograph_of_President_Truman_in_the_Oval_Office%2C_reading_the_announcement_of_Japan%27s_surrender_to_assembled..._-_NARA_-_199171.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Photograph_of_President_Truman_in_the_Oval_Office%2C_reading_the_announcement_of_Japan%27s_surrender_to_assembled..._-_NARA_-_199171.jpg/440px-Photograph_of_President_Truman_in_the_Oval_Office%2C_reading_the_announcement_of_Japan%27s_surrender_to_assembled..._-_NARA_-_199171.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2395" /></a><figcaption>Truman announces Japan's surrender. Washington, DC, August 14, 1945</figcaption></figure> In August 1945, the Japanese government ignored surrender demands as specified in the <a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Declaration" title="Potsdam Declaration">Potsdam Declaration</a>. With the support of most of his aides, Truman approved the schedule of the military's plans to <a href="/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" title="Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki">drop atomic bombs</a> on the Japanese cities of <a href="/wiki/Hiroshima" title="Hiroshima">Hiroshima</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nagasaki" title="Nagasaki">Nagasaki</a>. 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 in the following five years.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996108–111-25">[25]</a> After the Soviet Union <a href="/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_War" title="Soviet–Japanese War">invaded</a> Manchuria, Japan <a href="/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan" title="Surrender of Japan">agreed to surrender</a> on August 10 on the sole condition that Emperor <a href="/wiki/Hirohito" title="Hirohito">Hirohito</a> would not be forced to abdicate; after some internal debate, the Truman administration accepted these terms of surrender.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>]<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198439–40-27">[27]</a> The decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki <a href="/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" title="Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki">provoked long-running debates</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996109-28">[28]</a> Supporters of the bombings argue that, given the tenacious Japanese defense of the outlying islands, the bombings saved hundreds of thousands of lives that would have been lost <a href="/wiki/Operation_Downfall" title="Operation Downfall">invading mainland Japan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> After leaving office, Truman told a journalist that the atomic bombing "was done to save 125,000 youngsters on the American side and 125,000 on the Japanese side from getting killed and that is what it did. It probably also saved a half million youngsters on both sides from being maimed for life."<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> Truman was also motivated by a desire to end the war before the Soviet Union could invade Japanese-held territories and set up Communist governments.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008591–593-31">[31]</a> Critics, such as Allied commander and Truman's successor Dwight D. Eisenhower, have argued that the use of nuclear weapons was unnecessary, given that conventional tactics such as firebombing and blockade might induce Japan's surrender without the need for such weapons.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>]<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Foreign_affairs">Foreign affairs</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Foreign affairs">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_Harry_S._Truman_administration" title="Foreign policy of the Harry S. Truman administration">Foreign policy of the Harry S. Truman administration</a></div> Truman's chief advisors came from the State Department, especially <a href="/wiki/Dean_Acheson" title="Dean Acheson">Dean Acheson</a>. The main issues of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_foreign_policy" class="mw-redirect" title="United States foreign policy">United States foreign policy</a> during include:<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> <ul><li>Final stages of World War II included the problem of defeating Japan with minimal American casualties. Truman asked Moscow to invade from the north, and decided to drop two atomic bombs.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a></li> <li>Post-war Reconstruction: Following the end of World War II, Truman faced the task of rebuilding Europe and Japan. He implemented the <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Plan" title="Marshall Plan">Marshall Plan</a> to provide economic aid to Europe and Washington supervised the reconstruction of Japan.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a></li> <li>Formation of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>: Truman played a key role in the formation of the United Nations, which was established in 1945 to promote international cooperation and prevent another world war. Because of the Soviet veto, it was ineffective in most major disputes.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>: Truman led the nation into the Cold War in 1947, a period of heightened tensions and rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. Truman helped form the <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> military alliance. He implemented the policy of <a href="/wiki/Containment" title="Containment">containment</a>, which aimed to stop the spread of communism and limit Soviet influence around the world.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>: In 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, leading to a bloody conflict that lasted until 1953. Truman authorized U.S. military intervention in the conflict, which led to a protracted and costly war. He rejected the advice of General <a href="/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur" title="Douglas MacArthur">Douglas MacArthur</a>, and fired him in 1951.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuclear_arms_race" title="Nuclear arms race">Nuclear arms race</a>: Truman made the decision to build the hydrogen bomb. He oversaw the development of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the start of the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, which had far-reaching implications for U.S. foreign policy.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Postwar_international_order">Postwar international order</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Postwar international order">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Aftermath_of_World_War_II" title="Aftermath of World War II">Aftermath of World War II</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="United_Nations">United Nations</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: United Nations">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_Nations" title="History of the United Nations">History of the United Nations</a></div> In his last years in office Roosevelt had promoted several major initiatives to reshape the postwar politics and economy, and avoid the mistakes of 1919.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198421–22-18">[18]</a> Chief among those organizations was the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>, an intergovernmental organization similar to the <a href="/wiki/League_of_Nations" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a> that was designed to help ensure international cooperation. When Truman took office, delegates were about to meet at the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Conference_on_International_Organization" title="United Nations Conference on International Organization">United Nations Conference on International Organization</a> in San Francisco.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008579–590-43">[43]</a> As a <a href="/wiki/Wilsonian" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilsonian">Wilsonian</a> internationalist, Truman strongly supported the creation of the United Nations, and he signed the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Charter" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Charter">United Nations Charter</a> at the San Francisco Conference. Truman did not repeat <a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a>'s partisan attempt to ratify the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles" title="Treaty of Versailles">Treaty of Versailles</a> in 1919. Instead he cooperated closely with Senator <a href="/wiki/Arthur_H._Vandenberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthur H. Vandenberg">Arthur H. Vandenberg</a> and other Republican leaders to ensure ratification. Cooperation with Vandenberg, a leading figure on the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Foreign_Relations" title="United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations">Senate Foreign Relations Committee</a>, proved crucial for Truman's foreign policy, especially after Republicans gained control of Congress in the 1946 elections.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> Construction of the <a href="/wiki/Headquarters_of_the_United_Nations" title="Headquarters of the United Nations">United Nations headquarters</a> in New York City was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and completed in 1952. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Trade_and_low_tariffs">Trade and low tariffs</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Trade and low tariffs">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Tariffs_in_United_States_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Tariffs in United States history">Tariffs in United States history</a></div> In 1934, Congress had passed the <a href="/wiki/Reciprocal_Tariff_Act" title="Reciprocal Tariff Act">Reciprocal Tariff Act</a>, giving the president an unprecedented amount of authority in setting <a href="/wiki/Tariff" title="Tariff">tariff</a> rates. The act allowed for the creation of reciprocal agreements in which the U.S. and other countries mutually agreed to lower tariff rates.<a href="#cite_note-dirwin1-46">[46]</a> Despite significant opposition from those who favored higher tariffs, Truman was able to win legislative extension of the reciprocity program, and his administration reached numerous bilateral agreements that lowered trade barriers.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984270-47">[47]</a> The Truman administration also sought to further lower global tariff rates by engaging in multilateral trade negotiations, and the State Department proposed the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/International_Trade_Organization" title="International Trade Organization">International Trade Organization</a> (ITO). The ITO was designed to have broad powers to regulate trade among member countries, and its charter was approved by the United Nations in 1948. However, the ITO's broad powers engendered opposition in Congress, and Truman declined to send the charter to the Senate for ratification. In the course of creating the ITO, the U.S. and 22 other countries signed the <a href="/wiki/General_Agreement_on_Tariffs_and_Trade" title="General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade">General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade</a> (GATT), a set of principles governing trade policy. Under the terms of the agreement, each country agreed to reduce overall tariff rates and to treat each co-signatory as a "<a href="/wiki/Most_favoured_nation" title="Most favoured nation">most favoured nation</a>," meaning that no non-signatory country could benefit from more advantageous tariff rates. Due to a combination of the Reciprocal Tariff Act, the GATT, and inflation, U.S. tariff rates fell dramatically between the passage of the <a href="/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act" title="Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act">Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act</a> in 1930 and the end of the Truman administration in 1953.<a href="#cite_note-dirwin1-46">[46]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="European_refugees">European refugees</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: European refugees">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/International_Refugee_Organization" title="International Refugee Organization">International Refugee Organization</a></div> World War II left millions of refugees displaced in Europe, especially former prisoners and forced laborers in Germany. Truman took a leadership role in meeting the challenge.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> He backed the new <a href="/wiki/International_Refugee_Organization" title="International Refugee Organization">International Refugee Organization</a> (IRO), a temporary international organization that helped resettle refugees.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198474–75-49">[49]</a> The United States also funded temporary camps and admitted large numbers of refugees as permanent residents. Truman obtained ample funding from Congress for the <a href="/wiki/Displaced_Persons_Act" title="Displaced Persons Act">Displaced Persons Act</a> of 1948, which allowed many of the <a href="/wiki/Displaced_persons_camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Displaced persons camp">displaced people of World War II</a> to immigrate into the United States.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> Of the approximately one million people resettled by the IRO, more than 400,000 settled in the United States. The most contentious issue facing the IRO was the resettlement of European Jews, many of whom, with the support of Truman, were allowed to immigrate to British-controlled <a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">Mandatory Palestine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198474–75-49">[49]</a> The administration also helped create a new category of refugee, the "escapee," at the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. The American Escapee Program began in 1952 to help the flight and relocation of political refugees from communism in Eastern Europe. The motivation for the refugee and escapee programs was twofold: humanitarianism, and use as a political weapon against inhumane communism.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> Truman also set up a Presidential Displaced Person Commission, which people such as Harry N. Rosenfield and Walter Bierlinger served on.<a href="#cite_note-jewishroots-52">[52]</a><a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Atomic_energy_and_nuclear_weapons">Atomic energy and nuclear weapons</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Atomic energy and nuclear weapons">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_nuclear_weapons" title="History of nuclear weapons">History of nuclear weapons</a></div> In March 1946, at an optimistic moment for postwar cooperation, the administration released the <a href="/wiki/Acheson-Lilienthal_Report" class="mw-redirect" title="Acheson-Lilienthal Report">Acheson-Lilienthal Report</a>, which proposed that all nations voluntarily abstain from constructing nuclear weapons. As part of the proposal, the U.S. would dismantle its nuclear program once all other countries agreed not to develop or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons. Fearing that Congress would reject the proposal, Truman turned to the well-connected <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Baruch" title="Bernard Baruch">Bernard Baruch</a> to represent the U.S. position to the United Nations. The <a href="/wiki/Baruch_Plan" title="Baruch Plan">Baruch Plan</a>, largely based on the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, was not adopted due to opposition from Congress and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union would <a href="/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project" title="Soviet atomic bomb project">develop its own nuclear arsenal</a>, testing a nuclear weapon for the first time in August 1949.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200849–50,_90-54">[54]</a> The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Atomic_Energy_Commission" title="United States Atomic Energy Commission">United States Atomic Energy Commission</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/David_E._Lilienthal" title="David E. Lilienthal">David E. Lilienthal</a> until 1950, was in charge of designing and building nuclear weapons under a policy of full civilian control. The U.S. had only 9 atomic bombs in 1946, but the stockpile grew to 650 by 1951.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> Lilienthal wanted to give high priority to peaceful uses for <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_technology" title="Nuclear technology">nuclear technology</a>, especially <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_power_plant" title="Nuclear power plant">nuclear power plants</a>, but coal was cheap and the power industry was largely uninterested in building <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_power_plant" title="Nuclear power plant">nuclear power plants</a> during the Truman administration. Construction of the first nuclear plant would not begin until 1954.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> The Soviet Union's successful test of an atomic bomb in 1949 triggered an intense debate over whether the United States should proceed with development of the much more powerful <a href="/wiki/Hydrogen_bomb" class="mw-redirect" title="Hydrogen bomb">hydrogen bomb</a>.<a href="#cite_note-spdb-292-57">[57]</a> There was opposition to the idea from many in the scientific community and from some government officials, but Truman believed that the Soviet Union would likely develop the weapon itself and was unwilling to allow the Soviets to have such an advantage.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996173–175-58">[58]</a> Thus in early 1950, Truman made the decision to go forward with the H-bomb.<a href="#cite_note-spdb-292-57">[57]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Ivy_Mike" title="Ivy Mike">first test</a> of thermonuclear weaponry was conducted by the United States in 1952; the Soviet Union would perform <a href="/wiki/Joe_4" class="mw-redirect" title="Joe 4">its own thermonuclear test</a> in August 1953.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996175–176-59">[59]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Beginning_of_the_Cold_War,_1945–1949">Beginning of the Cold War, 1945–1949</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Beginning of the Cold War, 1945–1949">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Escalating_tensions,_1945–1946">Escalating tensions, 1945–1946</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Escalating tensions, 1945–1946">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Origins_of_the_Cold_War" title="Origins of the Cold War">Origins of the Cold War</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map-Germany-1947.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Map-Germany-1947.svg/310px-Map-Germany-1947.svg.png" decoding="async" width="310" height="263" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Map-Germany-1947.svg/465px-Map-Germany-1947.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Map-Germany-1947.svg/620px-Map-Germany-1947.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3482" data-file-height="2956" /></a><figcaption>Following World War II, the United States, France, Britain, and the Soviet Union each took control of occupation zones in Germany and the German capital of <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a></figcaption></figure> The Second World War dramatically upended the international system, as formerly-powerful nations like Germany, France, Japan, and even the USSR and Britain had been devastated. At the end of the war, only the United States and the Soviet Union had the ability to exercise influence, and a bipolar international power structure replaced the multipolar structure of the <a href="/wiki/Interwar_period" title="Interwar period">Interwar period</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008595–596-60">[60]</a> On taking office, Truman privately viewed the Soviet Union as a "police government pure and simple," but he was initially reluctant to take a hard-line towards it, as he hoped to work with Stalin the <a href="/wiki/Aftermath_of_World_War_II" title="Aftermath of World War II">aftermath of Second World War</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200821–23-61">[61]</a> Truman's suspicions deepened as the Soviets consolidated their <a href="/wiki/Eastern_bloc" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern bloc">control in Eastern Europe</a> throughout 1945, and the February 1946 announcement of the Soviet <a href="/wiki/Five-year_plans_for_the_national_economy_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Five-year plans for the national economy of the Soviet Union">five-year plan</a> further strained relations as it called for the continuing build-up of the Soviet military.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200828–29,_42-62">[62]</a> At the December 1945 <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Conference_(1945)" title="Moscow Conference (1945)">Moscow Conference</a>, Secretary of State Byrnes agreed to recognize the pro-Soviet governments in the <a href="/wiki/Balkans" title="Balkans">Balkans</a>, while the Soviet leadership accepted U.S. leadership in the <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan" title="Occupation of Japan">occupation of Japan</a>. U.S. concessions at the conference angered other members of the Truman administration, including Truman himself.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008602–603-63">[63]</a> By the beginning of 1946, it had become clear to Truman that Britain and the United States would have little influence in Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198478–79-64">[64]</a> Henry Wallace, Eleanor Roosevelt, and many other prominent New Dealers continued to hope for cooperative relations with the Soviet Union.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200843–44-65">[65]</a> Some liberals, like <a href="/wiki/Reinhold_Niebuhr" title="Reinhold Niebuhr">Reinhold Niebuhr</a>, distrusted the Soviet Union but believed that the United States should not try to counter Soviet influence in Eastern Europe, which the Soviets saw as their "strategic security belt."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996120–121-66">[66]</a> Partly because of this sentiment, Truman was reluctant to fully break with the Soviet Union in early 1946,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200843–44-65">[65]</a> but he took an increasingly hard line towards the Soviet Union throughout the year.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008605–606-67">[67]</a> He privately approved of Winston Churchill's March 1946 "<a href="/wiki/Iron_Curtain" title="Iron Curtain">Iron Curtain</a>" speech, which urged the United States to take the lead of an anti-Soviet alliance, though he did not publicly endorse it.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200843–44-65">[65]</a> Throughout 1946, tensions arose between the United States and the Soviet Union in places like <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>, which the Soviets had partly occupied during World War II. Pressure from the U.S. and the United Nations finally forced the withdrawal of Soviet soldiers.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200844–45-68">[68]</a> <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> also emerged as a point of contention, as the Soviet Union demanded joint control over the <a href="/wiki/Dardanelles" title="Dardanelles">Dardanelles</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Bosphorus" class="mw-redirect" title="Bosphorus">Bosphorus</a>, key straits that controlled movement between the <a href="/wiki/Black_Sea" title="Black Sea">Black Sea</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea" title="Mediterranean Sea">Mediterranean Sea</a>. The U.S. forcefully opposed this proposed alteration to the 1936 <a href="/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_the_Regime_of_the_Straits" title="Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits">Montreux Convention</a>, which had granted Turkey sole control over the straits, and Truman dispatched a fleet to the Eastern Mediterranean to show his administration's commitment to the region.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008609–610-69">[69]</a> Moscow and Washington also argued over Germany, which had been divided into <a href="/wiki/Allied-occupied_Germany" title="Allied-occupied Germany">four occupation zones</a>. In the September 1946 <a href="/wiki/Restatement_of_Policy_on_Germany" title="Restatement of Policy on Germany">Stuttgart speech</a>, Secretary of State Byrnes announced that the United States would no longer seek reparations from Germany and would support the establishment of a democratic state. The United States, France, and Britain agreed to combine their occupation zones, eventually forming <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008608–609-70">[70]</a> In East Asia, Truman denied the Soviet request to reunify <a href="/wiki/History_of_Korea" title="History of Korea">Korea</a>, and refused to allow the Soviets (or any other country) a role in the post-war occupation of Japan.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996116-71">[71]</a> By September 1946, Truman was convinced that the Soviet Union sought world domination and that cooperation was futile.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008610–611-72">[72]</a> He adopted a policy of <a href="/wiki/Containment" title="Containment">containment</a>, based on a <a href="/wiki/Long_Telegram" class="mw-redirect" title="Long Telegram">1946 cable</a> by diplomat <a href="/wiki/George_F._Kennan" title="George F. Kennan">George F. Kennan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200843-73">[73]</a> Containment, a policy of preventing the further expansion of Soviet influence, represented a middle-ground position between friendly <a href="/wiki/Detente" class="mw-redirect" title="Detente">detente</a> (as represented by Wallace), and aggressive <a href="/wiki/Rollback" title="Rollback">rollback</a> to regain territory already lost to Communism, as would be adopted in 1981 by <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> Kennan's doctrine was based on the notion that the Soviet Union was led by an uncompromising totalitarian regime, and that the Soviets were primarily responsible for escalating tensions.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996114-75">[75]</a> Wallace, who had been appointed Secretary of Commerce after the 1944 election, resigned from the cabinet in September 1946 due to Truman's hardening stance towards the Soviet Union.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200846–48-76">[76]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Truman_Doctrine">Truman Doctrine</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Truman Doctrine">edit</a>]</div> In the first major step in implementing containment, Truman extended money to <a href="/wiki/History_of_Greece" title="History of Greece">Greece</a> and Turkey to prevent the spread of Soviet-aligned governments.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008614–615-77">[77]</a> Prior to 1947, the U.S. had largely ignored Greece, which had an anti-communist government, because it was under British influence.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200856–57-78">[78]</a> Since 1944, the British had assisted the Greek government against a left-wing insurgency, but in early 1947 the British informed the United States that they could no longer afford to intervene in Greece. At the urging of Acheson, who warned that the fall of Greece could lead to the expansion of Soviet influence throughout Europe, Truman requested that Congress grant an unprecedented $400 million aid package to Greece and Turkey. In a March 1947 speech before a joint session of Congress, Truman articulated the <a href="/wiki/Truman_Doctrine" title="Truman Doctrine">Truman Doctrine</a>, which called for the United States to support "free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." Overcoming those who opposed U.S. involvement in Greek affairs, as well those who feared that the aid would weaken post-war cooperation, Truman won bipartisan approval of the aid package.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008614–616-79">[79]</a> The congressional vote represented a permanent break with the <a href="/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism" title="United States non-interventionism">non-interventionism</a> that had characterized U.S. foreign policy prior to World War II.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200858–59-80">[80]</a> The United States supported the government against the communists in the <a href="/wiki/Greek_Civil_War" title="Greek Civil War">Greek Civil War</a>, but did not send any military force. The insurgency was defeated in 1949. Stalin and <a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavian</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito" title="Josip Broz Tito">Josip Broz Tito</a> both provided aid to the insurgents, but a dispute over the aid led to the start of <a href="/wiki/Tito%E2%80%93Stalin_Split" class="mw-redirect" title="Tito–Stalin Split">a split</a> in the Communist bloc.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008616–617-81">[81]</a> American military and economic aid to Turkey also proved effective, and Turkey avoided a civil war.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a><a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> The Truman administration also provided aid to the Italian government in advance of the <a href="/wiki/Italian_general_election,_1948" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian general election, 1948">1948 general election</a>. The aid package, combined with a covert CIA operation, anti-Communist mobilization by the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, and pressure from prominent Italian-Americans, helped to ensure a Communist defeat in the election.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008621-84">[84]</a> The initiatives of the Truman Doctrine solidified the post-war division between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union responded by tightening its control over Eastern Europe.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008622-85">[85]</a> Countries aligned with the Soviet Union became known as the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" title="Eastern Bloc">Eastern Bloc</a>, while the U.S. and its allies became known as the <a href="/wiki/Western_Bloc" title="Western Bloc">Western Bloc</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Military_reorganization_and_budgets">Military reorganization and budgets</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Military reorganization and budgets">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable floatright"> <caption>U.S. military spending<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKirkendall1990237-86">[86]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Fiscal Year</th> <th>% GNP </th></tr> <tr> <td>1945</td> <td>38% </td></tr> <tr> <td>1946</td> <td>21% </td></tr> <tr> <td>1948</td> <td>5.0% </td></tr> <tr> <td>1950</td> <td>4.6% </td></tr> <tr> <td>1952</td> <td>13% </td></tr></tbody></table> Learning from wartime organizational problems, the Truman administration reorganized the military and intelligence establishment to provide for more centralized control and reduce rivalries.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008613–614-11">[11]</a> The <a href="/wiki/National_Security_Act_of_1947" title="National Security Act of 1947">National Security Act of 1947</a> combined and reorganized all military forces by merging the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War" title="United States Department of War">Department of War</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Navy" title="United States Department of the Navy">Department of the Navy</a> into the <a href="/wiki/National_Military_Establishment" class="mw-redirect" title="National Military Establishment">National Military Establishment</a> (which was later renamed as the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">Department of Defense</a>). The law also created the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">U.S. Air Force</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a> (CIA), and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council" title="United States National Security Council">National Security Council</a> (NSC). The CIA and the NSC were designed to be non-military, advisory bodies that would increase U.S. preparation against foreign threats without assuming the domestic functions of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200862–63-87">[87]</a> The National Security Act institutionalized the <a href="/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff" title="Joint Chiefs of Staff">Joint Chiefs of Staff</a>, which had been established on a temporary basis during World War II. The Joint Chiefs of Staff took charge of all military action, and the Secretary of Defense became the chief presidential adviser on military matter. In 1952, Truman secretly consolidated and empowered the cryptologic elements of the United States by creating the <a href="/wiki/National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a> (NSA).<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> Truman and Marshall also sought to require one year of military service for all young men, but this proposal failed as it never won more than modest support among members of Congress.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984117–118-89">[89]</a> Truman had hoped that the National Security Act would minimize interservice rivalries, but each branch retained considerable autonomy and battles over the military budgets and other issues continued.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996133-90">[90]</a> In 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced that he would cancel a so-called "<a href="/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" title="Aircraft carrier">supercarrier</a>," which many in the navy saw as an important part of the service's future.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996168-91">[91]</a> The cancellation sparked a crisis known as the "<a href="/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Admirals" title="Revolt of the Admirals">Revolt of the Admirals</a>", when a number of retired and active-duty admirals publicly disagreed with the Truman administration's emphasis on less expensive <a href="/wiki/Strategic_nuclear_weapon" title="Strategic nuclear weapon">strategic atomic bombs</a> delivered by the air force. During congressional hearings, public opinion shifted strongly against the navy, which ultimately kept control of marine aviation but lost control over strategic bombing. Military budgets following the hearings prioritized the development of air force heavy bomber designs, and the United States accumulated a combat ready force of over 1,000 long-range strategic bombers capable of supporting nuclear mission scenarios.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> Following the end of World War II, Truman gave a low priority to defense budgets—he was interested in curtailing military expenditures and had priorities he wanted to address with domestic spending.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHogan1998[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidHd4C3cY7Y7ICpgPA83_83–85]-93">[93]</a> From the beginning, he assumed that the American monopoly on the atomic bomb was adequate protection against any and all external threats.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKirkendall1990238-94">[94]</a> Military spending plunged from 39 percent of GNP in 1945 to only 5 percent in 1948,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKirkendall1990237–239-95">[95]</a> but defense expenditures overall were still eight times higher in constant dollars than they had been before the war.<a href="#cite_note-spdb-30-96">[96]</a> The number of military personnel fell from just over 3 million in 1946 to approximately 1.6 million in 1947, although again the number of military personnel was still nearly five times larger than that of U.S. military in 1939.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984116-97">[97]</a> These jumps were considerably larger than had taken place before and after the <a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a> or before and after <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, indicating that something fundamental had changed regarding American defense posture.<a href="#cite_note-spdb-30-96">[96]</a> Paired with the aforementioned decision to go ahead with the H-bomb, Truman ordered a review of U.S. military policies as they related to foreign policy planning.<a href="#cite_note-spdb-292-57">[57]</a> The National Security Council drafted <a href="/wiki/NSC_68" title="NSC 68">NSC 68</a>, which called for a major expansion of the U.S. defense budget, increased aid to U.S. allies, and a more aggressive posture in the Cold War. Despite increasing Cold War tensions, Truman dismissed the document, as he was unwilling to commit to higher defense spending.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008637–639-98">[98]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> convinced Truman of the necessity for higher defense spending, and such spending would soar between 1949 and 1953.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008647-99">[99]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Marshall_Plan">Marshall Plan</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Marshall Plan">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Plan" title="Marshall Plan">Marshall Plan</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marshall_Plan.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Marshall_Plan.svg/220px-Marshall_Plan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Marshall_Plan.svg/330px-Marshall_Plan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Marshall_Plan.svg/440px-Marshall_Plan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="454" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption>Marshall Plan expenditures by country</figcaption></figure> The United States had terminated the war-time <a href="/wiki/Lend-Lease" title="Lend-Lease">Lend-Lease</a> program in August 1945, but it continue a program of loans to Britain. Furthermore, the U.S. sent massive shipments of food to Europe in the years immediately following the end of the war.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198471,_100-100">[100]</a> With the goal of stemming the spread of Communism and increasing trade between the U.S. and Europe, the Truman administration devised the <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Plan" title="Marshall Plan">Marshall Plan</a>, which sought to rejuvenate the devastated economies of Western Europe.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200860–61-101">[101]</a> To fund the Marshall Plan, Truman asked Congress to approve an unprecedented, multi-year, $25 billion appropriation.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008618–619-102">[102]</a> Congress, under the control of conservative Republicans, agreed to fund the program for multiple reasons. The conservative isolationist wing of the Republican Party, led by Senator <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_S._Wherry" title="Kenneth S. Wherry">Kenneth S. Wherry</a>, argued that the Marshall Plan would be "a wasteful 'operation rat-hole'". Wherry held that it made no sense to oppose communism by supporting the socialist governments in Western Europe and that American goods would reach Russia and increase its war potential. Wherry was outmaneuvered by the emerging internationalist wing in the Republican Party, led by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] With support from Republican Senator <a href="/wiki/Henry_Cabot_Lodge_Jr." title="Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.">Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.</a>, Vandenberg admitted there was no certainty that the plan would succeed, but said it would halt economic chaos, sustain Western civilization, and stop further Soviet expansion.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> Both houses of Congress approved of the initial appropriation, known as the Foreign Assistance Act, by large majorities, and Truman signed the act into law in April 1948.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984127–128-104">[104]</a> Congress would eventually allocate $12.4 billion in aid over the four years of the plan.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> In addition to aid, the Marshall Plan also focused on efficiency along the lines of American industry and removing tariffs and trade barriers. Though the United States allowed each recipient to develop its own plan for the aid, it set several rules and guidelines on the use of the funding. Governments were required to exclude Communists, socialist policies were discouraged, and balanced budgets were favored. Additionally, the United States conditioned aid to the French and British on their acceptance of the reindustrialization of Germany and support for <a href="/wiki/European_integration" title="European integration">European integration</a>. To avoid exacerbating tensions, the U.S. invited the Soviet Union to become a recipient in the program, but set terms that Stalin was likely to reject.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008617–618-106">[106]</a> The Soviet Union refused to consider joining the program and vetoed participation by its own satellites. The Soviets set up their own program for aid, the <a href="/wiki/Molotov_Plan" title="Molotov Plan">Molotov Plan</a>, and the competing plans resulted in reduced trade between the Eastern bloc and the Western bloc.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984126–127-107">[107]</a> The Marshall Plan helped European economies recover in the late 1940s and early 1950s. By 1952, industrial productivity had increased by 35 percent compared to 1938 levels. The Marshall Plan also provided critical psychological reassurance to many Europeans, restoring optimism to a war-torn continent. Though European countries did not adopt American economic structures and ideas to the degree hoped for by some Americans, they remained firmly rooted in <a href="/wiki/Mixed_economy" title="Mixed economy">mixed economic systems</a>. The European integration process led to the creation of the <a href="/wiki/European_Economic_Community" title="European Economic Community">European Economic Community</a>, which eventually formed the basis of the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008619–620-108">[108]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Berlin_airlift">Berlin airlift</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Berlin airlift">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Berlin_Blockade" title="Berlin Blockade">Berlin Blockade</a></div> In reaction to Western moves aimed at reindustrializing their German occupation zones, Stalin ordered a blockade of the Western-held sectors of <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>, which was deep in the Soviet occupation zone. Stalin hoped to prevent the creation of a western German state aligned with the U.S., or, failing that, to consolidate control over eastern Germany.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008623–624-109">[109]</a> After the blockade began on June 24, 1948, the commander of the American occupation zone in Germany, General <a href="/wiki/Lucius_D._Clay" title="Lucius D. Clay">Lucius D. Clay</a>, proposed sending a large armored column across the Soviet zone to <a href="/wiki/West_Berlin" title="West Berlin">West Berlin</a> with instructions to defend itself if it were stopped or attacked. Truman believed this would entail an unacceptable risk of war, and instead approved <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Bevin" title="Ernest Bevin">Ernest Bevin</a>'s plan to supply the blockaded city by air. On June 25, the Allies initiated the <a href="/wiki/Berlin_Airlift" class="mw-redirect" title="Berlin Airlift">Berlin Airlift</a>, a campaign that delivered food and other supplies, such as coal, using military aircraft on a massive scale. Nothing like it had ever been attempted before, and no single nation had the capability, either logistically or materially, to accomplish it. The airlift worked, and ground access was again granted on May 11, 1949. The Berlin Airlift was one of Truman's great foreign policy successes, and it significantly aided his election campaign in 1948.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="NATO">NATO</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: NATO">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cold_war_europe_military_alliances_map_en.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Cold_war_europe_military_alliances_map_en.png/220px-Cold_war_europe_military_alliances_map_en.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Cold_war_europe_military_alliances_map_en.png/330px-Cold_war_europe_military_alliances_map_en.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Cold_war_europe_military_alliances_map_en.png/440px-Cold_war_europe_military_alliances_map_en.png 2x" data-file-width="1165" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Map of <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact" title="Warsaw Pact">Warsaw Pact</a> (which was created in 1955). The original NATO members are shaded dark blue.</figcaption></figure> Rising tensions with the Soviets, along with the Soviet veto of numerous United Nations Resolutions, convinced Truman, Senator Vandenberg, and other American leaders of the necessity of creating a defensive alliance devoted to collective security.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984139–140-111">[111]</a> In 1949, the United States, Canada, and several European countries signed the <a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty" title="North Atlantic Treaty">North Atlantic Treaty</a>, creating a trans-Atlantic military alliance and committing the United States to its first permanent alliance since the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Alliance_(1778)" title="Treaty of Alliance (1778)">1778 Treaty of Alliance</a> with <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200889-112">[112]</a> The treaty establishing NATO was widely popular and easily passed the Senate in 1949. NATO's goals were to contain Soviet expansion in Europe and to send a clear message to communist leaders that the world's democracies were willing and able to build new security structures in support of democratic ideals. The treaty also re-assured France that the United States would come to its defense, paving the way for continuing French cooperation in the re-establishment of an independent German state. The United States, <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, France, <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="The Netherlands">the Netherlands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luxembourg" title="Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> were the original treaty signatories.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200889–91-113">[113]</a> Shortly after the creation of NATO, Truman convinced Congress to pass the <a href="/wiki/Mutual_Defense_Assistance_Act" title="Mutual Defense Assistance Act">Mutual Defense Assistance Act</a>, which created a military aid program for European allies.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984198–201-114">[114]</a> Cold War tensions heightened following Soviet acquisition of nuclear weapons and the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>. The United States increased its commitment to NATO, invited <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> and <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> to join the alliance, and launched a second major foreign aid program with the enactment of the <a href="/wiki/Mutual_Security_Act" title="Mutual Security Act">Mutual Security Act</a>. Truman permanently stationed 180,000 in Europe, and European defense spending grew from 5 percent to 12 percent of gross national product. NATO established a <a href="/wiki/Structure_of_NATO" title="Structure of NATO">unified command structure</a>, and Truman appointed General <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> as the first <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Allied_Commander_Europe" title="Supreme Allied Commander Europe">Supreme Commander of NATO</a>. <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a>, which fell under the aegis of NATO, would eventually be incorporated into NATO in 1955.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008645–649-115">[115]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Latin_America_and_Argentina">Latin America and Argentina</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Latin America and Argentina">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Latin_America%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="Latin America–United States relations">Latin America–United States relations</a></div> Cold War tensions and competition reached across the globe, affecting Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, and Africa. The United States had historically focused its foreign policy on upholding the <a href="/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine" title="Monroe Doctrine">Monroe Doctrine</a> in the Western Hemisphere, but new commitments in Europe and Asia diminished Washington's attentions there.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> Partially in reaction to fears of expanding Soviet influence, the U.S. led efforts to create collective security pact in the Western Hemisphere. In 1947, the United States and most Latin American nations joined the <a href="/wiki/Inter-American_Treaty_of_Reciprocal_Assistance" title="Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance">Rio Pact</a>, a defensive military alliance. The following year, the independent states of the Americas formed the <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_American_States" title="Organization of American States">Organization of American States</a> (OAS), an intergovernmental organization designed to foster regional unity. Many Latin American nations, seeking favor with the United States, cut off relations with the Soviet Union.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008626–627-117">[117]</a> Latin American countries also requested aid and investment similar to the Marshall Plan, but Truman believed that most U.S. foreign aid was best directed to Europe and other areas that could potentially fall under the influence of Communism.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984228–229-118">[118]</a> There was bad blood with <a href="/wiki/Argentina%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="Argentina–United States relations">Argentina</a>. Washington detested dictator <a href="/wiki/Juan_Peron" class="mw-redirect" title="Juan Peron">Juan Peron</a>, who held <a href="/wiki/Fascist" class="mw-redirect" title="Fascist">fascist</a> sympathies, tried to remain neutral in the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> and continued to harbor Nazi war criminals. Washington blocked funds from international agencies and restricted trade and investment opportunities.<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Asia">Asia</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Asia">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Recognition_of_Israel">Recognition of Israel</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Recognition of Israel">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Truman_receives_menorah.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Truman_receives_menorah.jpg/220px-Truman_receives_menorah.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Truman_receives_menorah.jpg/330px-Truman_receives_menorah.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Truman_receives_menorah.jpg/440px-Truman_receives_menorah.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="949" /></a><figcaption>President Truman in the Oval Office, receiving a <a href="/wiki/Hanukkah" title="Hanukkah">Hanukkah</a> <a href="/wiki/Menorah_(Hanukkah)" class="mw-redirect" title="Menorah (Hanukkah)">Menorah</a> from the Prime Minister of Israel, <a href="/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion" title="David Ben-Gurion">David Ben-Gurion</a> (center). To the right is <a href="/wiki/Abba_Eban" title="Abba Eban">Abba Eban</a>, Ambassador of Israel to the U.S.</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="Israel–United States relations">Israel–United States relations</a></div> Truman had long taken an interest in the history of the Middle East, and was sympathetic to Jews who sought a homeland in British-controlled <a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">Mandatory Palestine</a>. In 1943, he had called for a homeland for those Jews who survived the Nazi regime. However, State Department officials were reluctant to offend the Arabs, who were opposed to the establishment of a Jewish state in the region.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCullough1992595–97-120">[120]</a> Regarding policy in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, Palestine was secondary to the goal of protecting the "Northern Tier" of Greece, Turkey, and Iran from communism.<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a> In 1947, the United Nations approved the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine" title="United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine">partition</a> of Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish state (which would become known as <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>) and an Arab state. In the months leading up to the British withdrawal from the region, the Truman administration debated whether or not to recognize the fledgling state of Israel. Overcoming initial objections from Marshall, Clark Clifford convinced Truman that non-recognition would lead Israel to tilt towards the Soviet Union in the Cold War.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008628–629-122">[122]</a> Truman recognized the <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">State of Israel</a> on May 14, 1948, eleven minutes after <a href="/wiki/Israeli_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Israeli Declaration of Independence">it declared itself a nation</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELenczowski199026-123">[123]</a> Israel would secure its independence with a victory in the <a href="/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War" title="1948 Arab–Israeli War">1948 Arab–Israeli War</a>, but the <a href="/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_conflict" title="Arab–Israeli conflict">Arab–Israeli conflict</a> remains unresolved.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008629-124">[124]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="China">China</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: China">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Mission" title="Marshall Mission">Marshall Mission</a>, <a href="/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="China–United States relations">China–United States relations</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Taiwan%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="Taiwan–United States relations">Taiwan–United States relations</a></div> In 1945, China descended into a <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War" title="Chinese Civil War">civil war</a>. The civil war baffled Washington, as both the Nationalists under <a href="/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek" title="Chiang Kai-shek">Chiang Kai-shek</a> and the Communists under <a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Zedong</a> had American advocates.<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> Truman sent George Marshall to China in early 1946 to broker a compromise featuring a coalition government, but Marshall failed. He returned to Washington in December 1946, blaming extremist elements on both sides.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> Though the Nationalists held a numerical advantage in the aftermath of the war, the Communists gained the upper hand in the civil war after 1947. Corruption, poor economic conditions, and poor military leadership eroded popular support for the Nationalist government, and the Communists won many peasants to their side. As the Nationalists collapsed in 1948, the Truman administration faced the question of whether to intervene on the side of the Nationalists or seek good relations with Mao. Chiang's strong support among sections of the American public, along with desire to assure other allies that the U.S. was committed to containment, convinced Truman to increase economic and military aid to the Nationalists. However, Truman held out little hope for a Nationalist victory, and he refused to send U.S. soldiers.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008631–633-127">[127]</a> <a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Zedong</a> and his Communists took control of the mainland of China in 1949, driving the Nationalists to <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>. The United States had a new enemy in Asia, and Truman came under fire from conservatives for "<a href="/wiki/Loss_of_China" title="Loss of China">losing</a>" China.<a href="#cite_note-May2012-128">[128]</a> Along with the Soviet detonation of a nuclear weapon, the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War played a major role in escalating Cold War tensions and U.S. militarization during 1949.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996169–170-129">[129]</a> Truman would have been willing to maintain some relationship between the U.S. and the Communist government, but Mao was unwilling.<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> Chiang established the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of China">Republic of China</a> on Taiwan. Truman made sure it retained China's permanent seat on the UN Security Council.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a><a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-133">[a]</a> In June 1950, after the outbreak of fighting in Korea, Truman ordered the Navy's <a href="/wiki/United_States_Seventh_Fleet" title="United States Seventh Fleet">Seventh Fleet</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Taiwan_Strait" title="Taiwan Strait">Taiwan Strait</a> to prevent further conflict between the communist government and the Republic of China.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonovan1983198–199-134">[133]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Japan">Japan</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Japan">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan" title="Occupation of Japan">Occupation of Japan</a></div> Under the leadership of General <a href="/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur" title="Douglas MacArthur">Douglas MacArthur</a>, the U.S. occupied Japan after the latter's surrender in August 1945. MacArthur presided over extensive reforms of the Japanese government and society that in many ways resembled the New Deal.<a href="#cite_note-135">[134]</a><a href="#cite_note-136">[135]</a> He imposed a <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Japan" title="Constitution of Japan">new constitution</a> that established a parliamentary democracy and granted women the right to vote. He also democratized the Japanese educational system, enabled labor unions and oversaw major economic changes, although Japanese business leaders were able to resist the reforms to some degree. As the Cold War intensified in 1947, Washington officials took greater control over the occupation, ending Japanese reparations to the Allied Powers and prioritizing economic growth over long-term reform. The Japanese suffered from poor economic conditions until 1950 when heavy American spending on supplies to support the Korean War stimulated growth.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008633–634-137">[136]</a> In 1951, the United States and Japan signed the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_San_Francisco" title="Treaty of San Francisco">Treaty of San Francisco</a>, which restored Japanese sovereignty but allowed the United States to maintain bases in Japan.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008646–647-138">[137]</a> Over the opposition of the Soviet Union and some other adversaries of Japan in World War II, the peace treaty did not contain punitive measures such as reparations, though Japan did lose control of the <a href="/wiki/Kuril_Islands" title="Kuril Islands">Kuril Islands</a> and all its pre-war possessions.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984271–272-139">[138]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Southeast_Asia">Southeast Asia</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Southeast Asia">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Decolonization_of_Asia" class="mw-redirect" title="Decolonization of Asia">Decolonization of Asia</a></div> With the end of World War II, the United States fulfilled the commitment made by the 1934 <a href="/wiki/Tydings%E2%80%93McDuffie_Act" title="Tydings–McDuffie Act">Tydings–McDuffie Act</a> and <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Manila_(1946)" title="Treaty of Manila (1946)">granted independence</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>. The U.S. had encouraged <a href="/wiki/Decolonization" title="Decolonization">decolonization</a> throughout World War II, but the start of the Cold War changed priorities. The U.S. used the Marshall Plan to pressure the Dutch to grant independence to <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> under the leadership of the anti-Communist <a href="/wiki/Sukarno" title="Sukarno">Sukarno</a>, and the Dutch recognized Indonesia's independence in 1949. However, in <a href="/wiki/French_Indochina" title="French Indochina">French Indochina</a>, the Truman administration recognized the <a href="/wiki/State_of_Vietnam" title="State of Vietnam">French client state</a> led by Emperor <a href="/wiki/B%E1%BA%A3o_%C4%90%E1%BA%A1i" title="Bảo Đại">Bảo Đại</a>. The U.S. feared alienating the French, who occupied a crucial position on the continent, and feared that the withdrawal of the French would allow the Communist faction of <a href="/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" title="Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> to assume power.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008634–635-140">[139]</a> Despite initial reluctance to become involved in Indochina, by 1952, the United States was heavily subsidizing the French suppression of Ho's <a href="/wiki/Vi%E1%BB%87t_Minh" class="mw-redirect" title="Việt Minh">Việt Minh</a> in the <a href="/wiki/First_Indochina_War" title="First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008647-99">[99]</a> The U.S. also established alliances in the region through the creation of the <a href="/wiki/Mutual_Defense_Treaty_(United_States%E2%80%93Philippines)" title="Mutual Defense Treaty (United States–Philippines)">Mutual Defense Treaty</a> with the Philippines and the <a href="/wiki/ANZUS" title="ANZUS">ANZUS</a> pact with <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984270–271-141">[140]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Korean_War">Korean War</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Korean War">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Outbreak_of_the_war">Outbreak of the war</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Outbreak of the war">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Truman_initiating_Korean_involvement.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Truman_initiating_Korean_involvement.jpg/220px-Truman_initiating_Korean_involvement.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="280" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Truman_initiating_Korean_involvement.jpg/330px-Truman_initiating_Korean_involvement.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Truman_initiating_Korean_involvement.jpg/440px-Truman_initiating_Korean_involvement.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2264" data-file-height="2885" /></a><figcaption>President Truman signing a proclamation declaring a national emergency and authorizing U.S. entry into the Korean War</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:President_Truman_and_General_MacArthur_at_Wake_Island.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/President_Truman_and_General_MacArthur_at_Wake_Island.jpg/220px-President_Truman_and_General_MacArthur_at_Wake_Island.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="288" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/President_Truman_and_General_MacArthur_at_Wake_Island.jpg/330px-President_Truman_and_General_MacArthur_at_Wake_Island.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/President_Truman_and_General_MacArthur_at_Wake_Island.jpg/440px-President_Truman_and_General_MacArthur_at_Wake_Island.jpg 2x" data-file-width="611" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>President Truman (right) and General <a href="/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur" title="Douglas MacArthur">Douglas MacArthur</a> at <a href="/wiki/Wake_Island" title="Wake Island">Wake Island</a>, October 1950</figcaption></figure> Following World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union occupied <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a>, which had been a colony of the Japanese Empire. The 38th parallel was chosen as a line of partition between the occupying powers since it was approximately halfway between Korea's northernmost and southernmost regions, and was always intended to mark a temporary separation before the eventual reunification of Korea.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996208-142">[141]</a> Nonetheless, the Soviet Union established the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (<a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a>) in 1948, while the United States established the Republic of Korea (<a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a>) that same year.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200892-143">[142]</a> Hoping to avoid a long-term military commitment in the region, Truman withdrew U.S. soldiers from the Korean Peninsula in 1949. The Soviet Union also withdrew their soldiers from Korea in 1949, but continued to supply North Korea with military aid.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996209-144">[143]</a> On June 25, 1950, <a href="/wiki/Kim_Il_Sung" title="Kim Il Sung">Kim Il Sung</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Korean_People%27s_Army" title="Korean People's Army">Korean People's Army</a> invaded South Korea, starting the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>. In the early weeks of the war, the North Koreans easily pushed back their southern counterparts.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984222–27-145">[144]</a> The Soviet Union was not directly involved, though Kim did win Stalin's approval before launching the invasion.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996209–210-146">[145]</a> Truman, meanwhile, did not view Korea itself as a vital region in the Cold War, but he believed that allowing a Western-aligned country to fall would embolden Communists around the world and damage his own standing at home.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek2008106–107-147">[146]</a> The top officials of the Truman administration were heavily influenced by a desire to not repeat the "<a href="/wiki/Appeasement" title="Appeasement">appeasement</a>" of the 1930s; Truman stated to an aide, "there's no telling what they'll do, if we don't put up a fight right now."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996211-148">[147]</a> Truman turned to the United Nations to condemn the invasion. With the Soviet Union boycotting the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council" title="United Nations Security Council">United Nations Security Council</a> due to the UN's refusal to recognize the People's Republic of China, Truman won approval of <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_84" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 84">Resolution 84</a>. The resolution denounced North Korea's actions and empowered other nations to defend South Korea.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek2008106–107-147">[146]</a> North Korean forces experienced early successes, <a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Seoul" title="First Battle of Seoul">capturing</a> the city of <a href="/wiki/Seoul" title="Seoul">Seoul</a> on June 28. Fearing the fall of the entire peninsula, General <a href="/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur" title="Douglas MacArthur">Douglas MacArthur</a>, commander of U.S. forces in Asia, won Truman's approval to land U.S. troops on the peninsula. Rather than asking Congress for a <a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_United_States" title="Declaration of war by the United States">declaration of war</a>, Truman argued that the UN Resolution provided the presidency the constitutional power to deploy soldiers as a "<a href="/wiki/Police_action" title="Police action">police action</a>" under the aegis of the UN.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek2008106–107-147">[146]</a> The intervention in Korea was widely popular in the United States at the time, and Truman's July 1950 request for $10 billion was approved almost unanimously.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996214–215-149">[148]</a> By August 1950, U.S. troops pouring into South Korea, along with American air strikes, stabilized the front around the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pusan_Perimeter" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Pusan Perimeter">Pusan Perimeter</a>.<a href="#cite_note-150">[149]</a> Responding to criticism over unreadiness, Truman fired Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and replaced him with the former Secretary of State George Marshall. With UN approval, Truman decided on a "rollback" policy—conquest of North Korea.<a href="#cite_note-151">[150]</a> UN forces launched a counterattack, scoring a stunning surprise victory with an amphibious landing at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Inchon" title="Battle of Inchon">Battle of Inchon</a> that trapped most of the invaders. UN forces marched north, toward the <a href="/wiki/Yalu_River" title="Yalu River">Yalu River</a> boundary with China, with the goal of reuniting Korea under UN auspices.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStokesbury199081–90-152">[151]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Stalemate_and_dismissal_of_MacArthur">Stalemate and dismissal of MacArthur</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Stalemate and dismissal of MacArthur">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Relief_of_Douglas_MacArthur" title="Relief of Douglas MacArthur">Relief of Douglas MacArthur</a></div> As the UN forces approached the Yalu River, the CIA and General MacArthur both expected that the Chinese would remain out of the war. Defying those predictions, Chinese <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Volunteer_Army" title="People's Volunteer Army">People's Volunteer Army</a> forces crossed the Yalu River in November 1950 and forced the overstretched UN soldiers to retreat.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996219–222-153">[152]</a> Fearing that the escalation of the war could spark a global conflict with the Soviet Union, Truman refused MacArthur's request to bomb Chinese supply bases north of the Yalu River.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek2008113-154">[153]</a> UN forces were pushed below the 38th parallel before the end of 1950, but, under the command of General <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Ridgway" title="Matthew Ridgway">Matthew Ridgway</a>, the UN launched <a href="/wiki/Operation_Ripper" title="Operation Ripper">a counterattack</a> that pushed Chinese forces back up to the 38th parallel.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996225–226-155">[154]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Korean_war_1950-1953.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Korean_war_1950-1953.gif/170px-Korean_war_1950-1953.gif" decoding="async" width="170" height="263" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Korean_war_1950-1953.gif/255px-Korean_war_1950-1953.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Korean_war_1950-1953.gif/340px-Korean_war_1950-1953.gif 2x" data-file-width="562" data-file-height="871" /></a><figcaption>Territory often changed hands early in the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>, until the front stabilized in 1951.  • North Korean, Chinese, and Soviet forces  • South Korean, U.S., <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth</a>, and United Nations forces</figcaption></figure> MacArthur made several public demands for an escalation of the war, leading to a break with Truman in late 1950 and early 1951.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996226–228-156">[155]</a> On April 5, House Minority Leader <a href="/wiki/Joseph_William_Martin_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph William Martin Jr.">Joseph Martin</a> made public a letter from MacArthur that strongly criticized Truman's handling of the Korean War and called for an expansion of the conflict against China.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek2008117–118-157">[156]</a> Truman believed that MacArthur's recommendations were wrong, but more importantly, he believed that MacArthur had overstepped his bounds in trying to make foreign and military policy, potentially endangering the <a href="/wiki/Civilian_control_of_the_military" class="mw-redirect" title="Civilian control of the military">civilian control of the military</a>. After consulting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and members of Congress, Truman decided to relieve MacArthur of his command.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek2008118–119-158">[157]</a> The <a href="/wiki/President_Truman%27s_relief_of_General_Douglas_MacArthur" class="mw-redirect" title="President Truman's relief of General Douglas MacArthur">dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur</a> ignited a firestorm of outrage against Truman and support for MacArthur. Fierce criticism from virtually all quarters accused Truman of refusing to shoulder the blame for a war gone sour and blaming his generals instead. Others, including Eleanor Roosevelt, supported and applauded Truman's decision. MacArthur meanwhile returned to the U.S. to a hero's welcome, and addressed a joint session of Congress.<a href="#cite_note-159">[158]</a> In part due to the dismissal of MacArthur, Truman's approval mark in February 1952 stood at 22% according to <a href="/wiki/Gallup_poll" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallup poll">Gallup polls</a>, which was, until <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> in 2008, the all-time lowest approval mark for an active American president.<a href="#cite_note-160">[159]</a> Though the public generally favored MacArthur over Truman immediately after MacArthur's dismissal, congressional hearings and newspaper editorials helped turn public opinion against MacArthur's advocacy for escalation.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996230–232-161">[160]</a> The war remained a frustrating stalemate for two years.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek2008124-162">[161]</a> UN and Chinese forces fought inconclusive conflicts like the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Heartbreak_Ridge" title="Battle of Heartbreak Ridge">Battle of Heartbreak Ridge</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pork_Chop_Hill" title="Battle of Pork Chop Hill">Battle of Pork Chop Hill</a>, but neither side was able to advance far past the 38th parallel.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996232-163">[162]</a> Throughout late 1951, Truman sought a cease fire, but disputes over prisoner exchanges led to the collapse of negotiations.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek2008124-162">[161]</a> Of the 116,000 Chinese and Korean prisoners-of-war held by the United States, only 83,000 were willing to return to their home countries, and Truman was unwilling to forcibly return the prisoners.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek2008137-164">[163]</a> The Korean War ended with an <a href="/wiki/Korean_Armistice_Agreement" title="Korean Armistice Agreement">armistice</a> in 1953 after Truman left office, dividing North Korea and South Korea along a border close to the 38th parallel.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChambers_II1999849-165">[164]</a> Over 30,000 Americans and approximately 3 million Koreans died in the conflict.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerring2008645-166">[165]</a> The United States maintained a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Forces_Korea" title="United States Forces Korea">permanent military presence</a> in South Korea after the war.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996235-167">[166]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="List_of_international_trips">List of international trips</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: List of international trips">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:US_President_Harry_Truman_Presidential_Trips.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/US_President_Harry_Truman_Presidential_Trips.PNG/330px-US_President_Harry_Truman_Presidential_Trips.PNG" decoding="async" width="330" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/US_President_Harry_Truman_Presidential_Trips.PNG/495px-US_President_Harry_Truman_Presidential_Trips.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/US_President_Harry_Truman_Presidential_Trips.PNG/660px-US_President_Harry_Truman_Presidential_Trips.PNG 2x" data-file-width="1357" data-file-height="628" /></a><figcaption>Truman made five international trips to seven countries during his presidency.<a href="#cite_note-168">[167]</a></figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"> <tbody><tr> <th style="width: 3%;"> </th> <th style="width: 17%;">Dates </th> <th style="width: 13%;">Country </th> <th style="width: 12%;">Locations </th> <th style="width: 55%;">Details </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1 </td> <td>July 15, 1945 </td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Antwerp" title="Antwerp">Antwerp</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a> </td> <td>Disembarked en route to Potsdam. </td></tr> <tr> <td>July 16 – August 2, 1945 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/File:WhiteFlag.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/WhiteFlag.png/25px-WhiteFlag.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/WhiteFlag.png/38px-WhiteFlag.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/WhiteFlag.png/50px-WhiteFlag.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Allied-occupied_Germany" title="Allied-occupied Germany">Germany</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Potsdam" title="Potsdam">Potsdam</a> </td> <td>Attended <a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Conference" title="Potsdam Conference">Potsdam Conference</a> with British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and <a href="/wiki/Clement_Attlee" title="Clement Attlee">Clement Attlee</a> and USSR leader <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>August 2, 1945 </td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a> </td> <td>Informal meeting with King <a href="/wiki/George_VI" title="George VI">George VI</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td> <td>August 23–30, 1946 </td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Flag_of_Bermuda.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bermuda.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Flag_of_Bermuda.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bermuda.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Flag_of_Bermuda.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bermuda.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hamilton,_Bermuda" title="Hamilton, Bermuda">Hamilton</a> </td> <td>Informal visit. Met with Governor General <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Leatham" title="Ralph Leatham">Ralph Leatham</a> and inspected <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Bermuda#Former_US_Bases_In_Bermuda" title="Military of Bermuda">U.S. military facilities</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td>March 3–6, 1947 </td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Mexico_%281934-1968%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico_%281934-1968%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Mexico_%281934-1968%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico_%281934-1968%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Mexico_%281934-1968%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico_%281934-1968%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="400" /> <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mexico,_D.F." class="mw-redirect" title="Mexico, D.F.">Mexico, D.F.</a> </td> <td>State visit. Met with President <a href="/wiki/Miguel_Alem%C3%A1n_Vald%C3%A9s" title="Miguel Alemán Valdés">Miguel Alemán Valdés</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td>June 10–12, 1947 </td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Flag_of_Canada_%281921%E2%80%931957%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Canada_%281921%E2%80%931957%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Flag_of_Canada_%281921%E2%80%931957%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Canada_%281921%E2%80%931957%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Flag_of_Canada_%281921%E2%80%931957%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Canada_%281921%E2%80%931957%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ottawa" title="Ottawa">Ottawa</a> </td> <td>Official visit. Met with Governor General <a href="/wiki/Harold_Alexander,_1st_Earl_Alexander_of_Tunis" title="Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis">Harold Alexander</a> and Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Mackenzie_King" class="mw-redirect" title="Mackenzie King">Mackenzie King</a> and addressed Parliament. </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 </td> <td>September 1–7, 1947 </td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Brazil_%281889%E2%80%931960%29.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil_%281889%E2%80%931960%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Brazil_%281889%E2%80%931960%29.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil_%281889%E2%80%931960%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Brazil_%281889%E2%80%931960%29.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil_%281889%E2%80%931960%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /> <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro" title="Rio de Janeiro">Rio de Janeiro</a> </td> <td>State visit. Addressed <a href="/wiki/Pan-American_Conference" title="Pan-American Conference">Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security</a> and the Brazilian Congress. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Domestic_affairs">Domestic affairs</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Domestic affairs">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reconversion_and_labor_strife">Reconversion and labor strife</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Reconversion and labor strife">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/79th_United_States_Congress" title="79th United States Congress">79th United States Congress</a></div> <table class="wikitable" align="right" style="margin-left:1em; text-align:center"> <caption>Federal finances and GDP during Truman's presidency<a href="#cite_note-169">[168]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Fiscal Year </th> <th>Receipts $ Billion </th> <th>Outlays $ Billion </th> <th>Surplus/ Deficit </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Gross_Domestic_Product" class="mw-redirect" title="Gross Domestic Product">GDP</a> </th> <th>Debt as a % of GDP<a href="#cite_note-170">[169]</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th>1945 </th> <td>45.2 </td> <td>92.7 </td> <td>−47.6 </td> <td>226.4 </td> <td>103.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th>1946 </th> <td>39.3 </td> <td>55.2 </td> <td>−15.9 </td> <td>228.0 </td> <td>106.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th>1947 </th> <td>38.5 </td> <td>34.5 </td> <td>4.0 </td> <td>238.9 </td> <td>93.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th>1948 </th> <td>41.6 </td> <td>29.8 </td> <td>11.8 </td> <td>261.9 </td> <td>82.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th>1949 </th> <td>39.4 </td> <td>38.8 </td> <td>0.6 </td> <td>276.5 </td> <td>77.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th>1950 </th> <td>39.4 </td> <td>42.6 </td> <td>−3.1 </td> <td>278.7 </td> <td>78.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th>1951 </th> <td>51.6 </td> <td>45.5 </td> <td>6.1 </td> <td>327.1 </td> <td>65.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th>1952 </th> <td>66.2 </td> <td>67.7 </td> <td>−1.5 </td> <td>357.1 </td> <td>60.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th>1953 </th> <td>69.6 </td> <td>76.1 </td> <td>−6.5 </td> <td>382.1 </td> <td>57.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th>Ref. </th> <td colspan="3"><a href="#cite_note-171">[170]</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-172">[171]</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-173">[172]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Reconversion">Reconversion</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Reconversion">edit</a>]</div> Although foreign affairs dominated much of Truman's time in office, reconversion to a peacetime economy became his administration's central focus in late 1945. Truman faced several major challenges in presiding over the transition to a post-war economy, including a large <a href="/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States" title="National debt of the United States">national debt</a> and persistent <a href="/wiki/Inflation" title="Inflation">inflation</a>. The United States had emerged from the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States" title="Great Depression in the United States">Great Depression</a> in part due to the war production that began in 1940. Most observers expected that the nation would sink into another decline with the end of the war spending. While the country had been unified in winning the war, there was no consensus on the best methods of post-war economic reconversion after the war, or the level of involvement that the federal government should have in economic affairs.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198441–44-174">[173]</a> Truman faced a Congress that on domestic issues was dominated by the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_coalition" title="Conservative coalition">conservative coalition</a>, an alliance of Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats. This group opposed many of Truman's domestic policies and did not welcome strong presidential leadership.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996139–141-175">[174]</a> Truman asked Congress for a host of measures, including a bill that would make the <a href="/wiki/Fair_Employment_Practice_Committee" title="Fair Employment Practice Committee">Fair Employment Practice Committee</a> a permanent institution, but his focus on foreign affairs during this period prevented him from effectively advocating for his programs with members of Congress.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996141–144-176">[175]</a> Truman was particularly concerned about keeping unemployment levels low; nearly 2 million people lost jobs within days of the Japanese surrender, and he feared that even more would lose their jobs in the following months.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198449-177">[176]</a> Liberal New Dealers pushed for an explicit federal commitment to ensuring "<a href="/wiki/Full_employment" title="Full employment">full employment</a>," but Congress instead passed the <a href="/wiki/Employment_Act_of_1946" title="Employment Act of 1946">Employment Act of 1946</a>. The act created the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Economic_Advisers" title="Council of Economic Advisers">Council of Economic Advisers</a> and mandated the federal government "to foster and promote free competitive enterprise and the general welfare... and to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power.<a href="#cite_note-178">[177]</a> The United States had instituted <a href="/wiki/Price_controls" title="Price controls">price controls</a> and wage controls during the war in order to avoid large-scale inflation or deflation. Within the Truman administration, some advocated lifting these controls immediately in order to allow private industries to hire new workers, while others feared that immediately lifting the controls would lead to runaway inflation. Truman sought to find a middle course between the two camps; price controls on many nonessential items were lifted by the end of September 1945, but others remained in place by the end of 1945.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198445–49-179">[178]</a> Increasingly concerned about inflation, Truman reimposed some price controls in December 1945, but the unpopularity of those controls led the administration to seek other ways to curb inflation, including cuts to federal spending.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198453–54-180">[179]</a> In July 1946, after average prices rose at the unprecedented rate of 5.5 percent, Truman won passage of a bill that extended his authority to institute price controls on some items.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198455–57-181">[180]</a> Though unemployment remained low, labor unrest, inflation, and other issues badly damaged Truman's popularity, which in turn contributed to a poor Democratic showing in the November 1946 mid-term elections.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198465–66-182">[181]</a> After the Republican victory in those elections, Truman announced the end of all federal wage and price controls, with the exception of <a href="/wiki/Rent_control_in_the_United_States" title="Rent control in the United States">rent controls</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198455–57-181">[180]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Labor_unrest">Labor unrest</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Labor unrest">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Strike_wave_of_1945%E2%80%9346" class="mw-redirect" title="Strike wave of 1945–46">Strike wave of 1945–46</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:President_Truman_with_Greek_sponge_divers..jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/President_Truman_with_Greek_sponge_divers..jpg/220px-President_Truman_with_Greek_sponge_divers..jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/President_Truman_with_Greek_sponge_divers..jpg/330px-President_Truman_with_Greek_sponge_divers..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/President_Truman_with_Greek_sponge_divers..jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="324" /></a><figcaption>Truman with <a href="/wiki/Greek_Americans" title="Greek Americans">Greek American</a> sponge divers in Florida, 1947</figcaption></figure> Conflict between management and labor presented one of the biggest challenges to the conversion of the economy to peacetime production. Organized labor had adhered to its pledge to refrain from striking during the war, but labor leaders were eager to share in the gains from a postwar economic resurgence. After several labor disputes broke out in September and October 1945, Truman convened a national conference between leaders of business and organized labor in November, at which he advocated collective bargaining in order to avoid labor-related economic disruptions. The conference failed to have a major impact; <a href="/wiki/Strike_wave_of_1946" class="mw-redirect" title="Strike wave of 1946">an unprecedented wave of major strikes</a> affected the United States, and by February 1946 nearly 2 million workers were engaged in strikes or other labor disputes.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198449–51,_57-183">[182]</a> Many of the strikes were led by <a href="/wiki/John_L._Lewis" title="John L. Lewis">John L. Lewis</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_Industrial_Organizations" title="Congress of Industrial Organizations">Congress of Industrial Organizations</a> (CIO), who Truman despised.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198458-184">[183]</a> When a national rail strike threatened in May 1946, Truman seized the railroads to continue operations, but two key railway unions struck anyway. The entire national railroad system was shut down—24,000 freight trains and 175,000 passenger trains a day stopped moving.<a href="#cite_note-185">[184]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] For two days public anger mounted among the general public and Truman himself, and the president drafted a message to Congress that called on veterans to form a lynch mob and destroy the union leaders.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCullough1992498–501-186">[185]</a> After top aide Clark Clifford rewrote and toned down the speech, Truman delivered a speech calling for Congress to pass a new law to draft all the railroad strikers into the army. As he was concluding his speech he read a message just handed to him that the strike was settled on presidential terms; Truman nevertheless finished the speech, making clear his displeasure with the strike.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCullough1992501–6-187">[186]</a><a href="#cite_note-188">[187]</a> Truman's speech marked the end of the strike wave, as business and labor leaders both generally avoided subsequent actions that would provoke a strong response from the administration. The strikes damaged the political standing of unions, and the <a href="/wiki/Real_wages" title="Real wages">real wages</a> of blue collar workers fell by over twelve percent in the year after the surrender of Japan.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198460-189">[188]</a> At the same time, the CIO's efforts to expand massively into the South (a campaign known as "<a href="/wiki/Operation_Dixie" title="Operation Dixie">Operation Dixie</a>") failed.<a href="#cite_note-190">[189]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Higher_education_and_veterans_benefits">Higher education and veterans benefits</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Higher education and veterans benefits">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="G.I._Bill">G.I. Bill</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: G.I. Bill">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GIBill.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/GIBill.jpg/170px-GIBill.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/GIBill.jpg/255px-GIBill.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/GIBill.jpg/340px-GIBill.jpg 2x" data-file-width="463" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>A government poster informing soldiers about the <a href="/wiki/G.I._Bill" title="G.I. Bill">G.I. Bill</a></figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/G.I._Bill" title="G.I. Bill">G.I. Bill</a> had been passed in 1944 by a conservative coalition that wanted to restrict benefits to "deserving" wartime veterans, as opposed to the larger welfare program favored by the Roosevelt administration that would reach all low income families.<a href="#cite_note-191">[190]</a> The most famous component of the G.I. Bill provided free collegiate, vocational, and high school education for veterans – not only free tuition, but also full housing and subsistence allowances for the veterans and their families. There was a remarkable transformation of higher education, as 2.2 million veterans crowded into hastily built classrooms.<a href="#cite_note-192">[191]</a> Due in large part to the G.I. Bill, the number of college degrees awarded rose from just over 200,000 in 1940 to nearly 500,000 in 1950.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy19849-193">[192]</a> The G.I. Bill also guaranteed low cost home loans for veterans, with very low down payments and low interest rates. In 1947 alone, 540,000 veterans bought a house at the average price of $7,300. Developers purchased empty land just outside the city, installed tract houses based on a handful of designs, and provided streets and utilities.<a href="#cite_note-194">[193]</a> The GI Bill thus helped in ensuring 15 million housing units were built between 1945 and 1955, and the home-ownership rate grew from 50 percent in 1945 to 60 percent in 1960. Together with the growth of the automobile industry, the G.I. Bill's housing benefits helped provide for a major expansion of suburbs around every major city.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson199670–73-195">[194]</a> In addition to education and housing benefits, the bill included aid to veterans who wanted to start a small business or farm, as well one year of <a href="/wiki/Unemployment_benefits" title="Unemployment benefits">unemployment compensation</a>.<a href="#cite_note-196">[195]</a><a href="#cite_note-197">[196]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Commission_on_Higher_Education_for_American_Democracy">Commission on Higher Education for American Democracy</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Commission on Higher Education for American Democracy">edit</a>]</div> Truman in 1946 established a commission on <a href="/wiki/Higher_Education_for_American_Democracy" title="Higher Education for American Democracy">Higher Education for American Democracy</a> which issued an influential report. It calls for several significant changes in postsecondary education, among them, the establishment of a network of public <a href="/wiki/Community_college" title="Community college">community colleges</a>, which would be free of charge for "all youth who can profit from such education".<a href="#cite_note-Presidency-198">[197]</a> The commission helped popularize the phrase "community college" in the late 1940s and helped shape the future of two-year degree institutions in the U.S.<a href="#cite_note-199">[198]</a> The report also calls for increased Federal spending in the form of scholarships, fellowships, and general aid to schools and students.<a href="#cite_note-200">[199]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="80th_Congress_and_the_Taft–Hartley_Act">80th Congress and the Taft–Hartley Act</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: 80th Congress and the Taft–Hartley Act">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/80th_United_States_Congress" title="80th United States Congress">80th United States Congress</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Dubinsky_gives_a_speech_against_the_Hartley-Taft_bill,_with_Luigi_Antonini_in_the_audience,_May_4,_1947._(5278798677).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/David_Dubinsky_gives_a_speech_against_the_Hartley-Taft_bill%2C_with_Luigi_Antonini_in_the_audience%2C_May_4%2C_1947._%285278798677%29.jpg/220px-David_Dubinsky_gives_a_speech_against_the_Hartley-Taft_bill%2C_with_Luigi_Antonini_in_the_audience%2C_May_4%2C_1947._%285278798677%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/David_Dubinsky_gives_a_speech_against_the_Hartley-Taft_bill%2C_with_Luigi_Antonini_in_the_audience%2C_May_4%2C_1947._%285278798677%29.jpg/330px-David_Dubinsky_gives_a_speech_against_the_Hartley-Taft_bill%2C_with_Luigi_Antonini_in_the_audience%2C_May_4%2C_1947._%285278798677%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/David_Dubinsky_gives_a_speech_against_the_Hartley-Taft_bill%2C_with_Luigi_Antonini_in_the_audience%2C_May_4%2C_1947._%285278798677%29.jpg/440px-David_Dubinsky_gives_a_speech_against_the_Hartley-Taft_bill%2C_with_Luigi_Antonini_in_the_audience%2C_May_4%2C_1947._%285278798677%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2904" data-file-height="2326" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/David_Dubinsky" title="David Dubinsky">David Dubinsky</a> of the <a href="/wiki/International_Ladies_Garment_Workers_Union" title="International Ladies Garment Workers Union">International Ladies Garment Workers Union</a> speaks against the <a href="/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act_of_1947" class="mw-redirect" title="Taft–Hartley Act of 1947">Taft–Hartley Act of 1947</a></figcaption></figure> The 1946 mid-term election left Republicans in control of Congress for the first time since the early 1930s. Truman initially hoped to work with Republican leaders in Congress, focusing on the passage of housing programs and other potential areas of common ground.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198493–95-201">[200]</a> Truman and the 80th Congress were able to agree on a balanced budget, albeit one that spent less on defense and some other programs that Truman favored. Congress also assented to the creation of the <a href="/wiki/Hoover_Commission" title="Hoover Commission">Hoover Commission</a>, which proposed a series of reorganizations to the executive branch.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198494–96-202">[201]</a> However, the 80th Congress proved strongly resistant to Truman's policies. One of its first major acts was to approve what would become the <a href="/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution">Twenty-second Amendment</a>, which established presidential <a href="/wiki/Term_limits_in_the_United_States" title="Term limits in the United States">term limits</a> in an implicit rebuke to Franklin Roosevelt, the only president who had ever served more than two terms.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198493–95-201">[200]</a><a href="#cite_note-205">[b]</a> Congress also passed bills designed to cut taxes, weaken the <a href="/wiki/Interstate_Commerce_Commission" title="Interstate Commerce Commission">Interstate Commerce Commission</a>, and reduce the number of employees covered by Social Security, but all were vetoed by Truman in 1947.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198497–99-206">[204]</a> Upon returning to session in 1948, Congress passed the <a href="/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1948" title="Revenue Act of 1948">Revenue Act of 1948</a>, another major tax cut; Truman again vetoed the bill, but this time his veto was overridden by Congress.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984102–103-207">[205]</a> In response to the labor unrest of 1945 and 1946, Congress passed the <a href="/wiki/Labor_Management_Relations_Act_of_1947" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor Management Relations Act of 1947">Labor Management Relations Act of 1947</a>, also known as the Taft–Hartley Act, which amended the <a href="/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act_of_1935" title="National Labor Relations Act of 1935">National Labor Relations Act of 1935</a>. Truman vetoed the bill, denouncing it as "slave-labor bill," but Congress overrode the veto.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198497–99-206">[204]</a> The Taft-Hartley Act added a list of prohibited union actions to the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (also known as the Wagner Act), which had defined several types of employer actions as <a href="/wiki/Unfair_labor_practice" title="Unfair labor practice">unfair labor practices</a>. Taft-Hartley prohibited <a href="/wiki/Jurisdictional_strikes" class="mw-redirect" title="Jurisdictional strikes">jurisdictional strikes</a>, in which a union strikes in order to pressure an employer to assign particular work to the employees that union represents, and <a href="/wiki/Secondary_boycott" class="mw-redirect" title="Secondary boycott">secondary boycotts</a> and "common situs" picketing, in which unions picket, strike, or refuse to handle the goods of a business with which they have no primary dispute but which is associated with a targeted business.<a href="#cite_note-208">[c]</a> The act also outlawed <a href="/wiki/Closed_shop" title="Closed shop">closed shops</a>, which were contractual agreements that required an employer to hire only union members.<a href="#cite_note-leftout1-209">[206]</a> The Taft–Hartley Act also granted states power to pass "<a href="/wiki/Right-to-work_law" title="Right-to-work law">right-to-work laws</a>," which ban <a href="/wiki/Union_shop" title="Union shop">union shop</a> shops.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson199651-210">[207]</a> All union officials were required to sign an affidavit that they were not Communists or else the union would lose its federal bargaining powers guaranteed by the <a href="/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Board" title="National Labor Relations Board">National Labor Relations Board</a>.<a href="#cite_note-leftout1-209">[206]</a> Despite his vocal opposition to the Taft–Hartley Act, Truman used its emergency provisions a number of times to halt strikes and lockouts. Repeated union efforts to repeal or modify it always failed, and it remains in effect today.<a href="#cite_note-211">[208]</a> Historian <a href="/wiki/James_T._Patterson_(historian)" title="James T. Patterson (historian)">James T. Patterson</a> concludes that: <dl><dd><dl><dd>By the 1950s most observers agreed that Taft-Hartley was no more disastrous for workers than the Wagner Act had been for employers. What ordinarily mattered most in labor relations was not government laws such as Taft-Hartley, but the relative power of unions and management in the economic marketplace. Where unions were strong they usually managed all right; when they were weak, new laws did them little additional harm.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson199652-212">[209]</a></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fair_Deal">Fair Deal</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Fair Deal">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Fair_Deal" title="Fair Deal">Fair Deal</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/81st_United_States_Congress" title="81st United States Congress">81st United States Congress</a> and <a href="/wiki/82nd_United_States_Congress" title="82nd United States Congress">82nd United States Congress</a></div> In his first major address to Congress after taking office, Truman articulated a liberal domestic program, but his early domestic policy was dominated by post-war reconversion.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198447–48-213">[210]</a> As he readied for the 1948 election, Truman made clear his identity as a Democrat in the <a href="/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a> tradition, advocating a national health care system, repeal of the Taft–Hartley Act, federal aid to education, expanded public housing programs, a higher minimum wage, more public power projects like the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority" title="Tennessee Valley Authority">Tennessee Valley Authority</a>, and a more <a href="/wiki/Progressive_tax" title="Progressive tax">progressive</a> tax structure.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200884–86-214">[211]</a> The administration also put forth the <a href="/wiki/Brannan_Plan" title="Brannan Plan">Brannan Plan</a>, which would have removed the government's production controls and price supports in agriculture in favor of direct payments to farmers.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996166–167-215">[212]</a> Taken together, Truman's proposals constituted a broad legislative agenda that came to be known as the "<a href="/wiki/Fair_Deal" title="Fair Deal">Fair Deal</a>."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200884–86-214">[211]</a> A major difference between the New Deal and the Fair Deal was that the latter included an aggressive civil rights program, which Truman termed a moral priority. Truman's proposals were not well received by Congress, even with renewed Democratic majorities in Congress after 1948.<a href="#cite_note-lamb1-216">[213]</a> The conservative coalition of Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats played a major role in blocking passage of the Fair Deal, but the inability of liberals to agree on the details of many programs also contributed to legislative gridlock.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984183-217">[214]</a> Only one of the major Fair Deal bills, the <a href="/wiki/Housing_Act_of_1949" title="Housing Act of 1949">Housing Act of 1949</a>, was ever enacted.<a href="#cite_note-lamb1-216">[213]</a> The act funded <a href="/wiki/Slum_clearance_in_the_United_States" title="Slum clearance in the United States">slum clearance</a> and the construction of 810,000 units of low-income housing over a period of six years.<a href="#cite_note-218">[215]</a> Truman did win other victories in the 81st Congress, as the minimum wage was raised from forty cents an hour to seventy-five cents an hour, Social Security benefits for the retired were doubled, and loopholes in the <a href="/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act" title="Sherman Antitrust Act">Sherman Antitrust Act</a> were closed via passage of the <a href="/wiki/Celler%E2%80%93Kefauver_Act" title="Celler–Kefauver Act">Celler–Kefauver Act</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984175,_181–182-219">[216]</a> The 1950 mid-term elections bolstered Republicans and conservative Democrats, ending any chance of passing further Fair Deal programs.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984257-220">[217]</a> Though Truman failed to pass most of his major Fair Deal deal proposals, he did help ensure that the major New Deal programs still in operation remained intact, and in many cases, received minor improvements.<a href="#cite_note-221">[218]</a> The Fair Deal would later serve as an inspiration for many of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Society" title="Great Society">Great Society</a> programs passed during the <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson">presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek2008152-222">[219]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Civil_rights">Civil rights</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Civil rights">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:U.S._Army_machine_gun_team_near_the_Chongchon_River_in_North_Korea_(November_1950).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/U.S._Army_machine_gun_team_near_the_Chongchon_River_in_North_Korea_%28November_1950%29.jpg/280px-U.S._Army_machine_gun_team_near_the_Chongchon_River_in_North_Korea_%28November_1950%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="192" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/U.S._Army_machine_gun_team_near_the_Chongchon_River_in_North_Korea_%28November_1950%29.jpg/420px-U.S._Army_machine_gun_team_near_the_Chongchon_River_in_North_Korea_%28November_1950%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/U.S._Army_machine_gun_team_near_the_Chongchon_River_in_North_Korea_%28November_1950%29.jpg/560px-U.S._Army_machine_gun_team_near_the_Chongchon_River_in_North_Korea_%28November_1950%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2058" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_9981" title="Executive Order 9981">Executive Order 9981</a> abolished racial segregation in the U.S. armed forces. Pictured are soldiers from the U.S. <a href="/wiki/2nd_Infantry_Division_(United_States)" title="2nd Infantry Division (United States)">2nd Infantry Division</a> in action during the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>, November 1950</figcaption></figure> Historians Donald R. McCoy and Richard T. Ruetten write that Truman "was the first president to have a civil rights program, the first to try to come to grips with the basic problems of minorities, and the first to condemn, vigorously and consistently, the presence of discrimination and inequality in America."<a href="#cite_note-223">[220]</a> A 1947 report by the <a href="/wiki/President%27s_Committee_on_Civil_Rights" title="President's Committee on Civil Rights">President's Committee on Civil Rights</a> titled To Secure These Rights presented a detailed ten-point agenda of civil rights reforms. In February 1948, the president submitted a civil rights agenda to Congress that proposed creating several federal offices devoted to issues such as <a href="/wiki/Voting_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Voting rights">voting rights</a> and <a href="/wiki/Employment_discrimination" title="Employment discrimination">fair employment</a> practices.<a href="#cite_note-224">[221]</a> This provoked a storm of criticism from Southern Democrats in the runup to the <a href="/wiki/1948_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1948 Democratic National Convention">1948 Democratic National Convention</a>, but Truman refused to compromise, saying: "My forebears were Confederates ... but my very stomach turned over when I had learned that Negro soldiers, just back from overseas, were being dumped out of Army trucks in Mississippi and beaten."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETruman1973429-225">[222]</a> At the start of the 81st Congress, pro-civil rights congressmen attempted to reform the Senate's <a href="/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_States_Senate" title="Filibuster in the United States Senate">filibuster</a> rules so that a filibuster could be defeated by a simple majority vote. Southern senators blocked this reform, thereby ensuring that civil rights would not emerge as an important legislative issue until the late 1950s.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996166-226">[223]</a> With his civil rights agenda blocked by Congress, Truman turned to executive actions.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200866-227">[224]</a> In July 1948, he issued <a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_9981" title="Executive Order 9981">Executive Order 9981</a>, requiring equal opportunity in the Armed Forces regardless of race, color, religion or national origin.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKirkendall199010–11-228">[225]</a><a href="#cite_note-229">[226]</a><a href="#cite_note-230">[227]</a> Truman also issued Executive Order 9980, ending racial discrimination in the civil service of the federal government <a href="#cite_note-231">[228]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCullough1992651-232">[229]</a> Another Executive Order, in 1951, established the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Federal_Contract_Compliance_Programs" title="Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs">Committee on Government Contract Compliance</a> (CGCC), which sought to prevent defense contractors from discriminating because of race.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984254–255-233">[230]</a> Desegregation took years, with the Air Force under Secretary <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Symington" title="Stuart Symington">Stuart Symington</a> taking the lead.<a href="#cite_note-234">[231]</a> After several years of planning between Truman, the <a href="/wiki/President%27s_Committee_on_Equality_of_Treatment_and_Opportunity" class="mw-redirect" title="President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity">Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity</a>, and the various branches of the military, Army units started to be racially integrated in the early 1950s and later the Navy.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacGregor1981312–15,_376–78,_457–59-235">[232]</a> The 1948 <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Armed_Services_Integration_Act" title="Women's Armed Services Integration Act">Women's Armed Services Integration Act</a> allowed women to serve in the peacetime military in all-female units. Truman appointed non-whites to unprecedented positions of power in the executive and judicial branches.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984106–107,_168-236">[233]</a> Among his appointments was <a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Hastie" class="mw-redirect" title="William Henry Hastie">William Henry Hastie</a>, the first African American to serve as a federal appellate judge.<a href="#cite_note-237">[234]</a> In civil rights cases like <a href="/wiki/Sweatt_v._Painter" title="Sweatt v. Painter">Sweatt v. Painter</a>, the Justice Department issued <a href="/wiki/Amicus_curiae" title="Amicus curiae">amicus curiae</a> briefs that supported ending segregation.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984171-238">[235]</a> In December 1952, the Truman administration filed an amicus curiae brief for the case of <a href="/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education" title="Brown v. Board of Education">Brown v. Board of Education</a>; two years later, the Supreme Court's holding in that case would effectively overturn the "<a href="/wiki/Separate_but_equal" title="Separate but equal">separate but equal</a>" doctrine that allowed for racial segregation in public education.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984307-239">[236]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Health_insurance">Health insurance</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Health insurance">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_health_care_reform_in_the_United_States" title="History of health care reform in the United States">History of health care reform in the United States</a></div> By the time Truman took office, <a href="/wiki/National_health_insurance" title="National health insurance">National health insurance</a> had been on the table for decades, but it had never gained much traction. Starting in the late 1930s hospitals promoted private insurance plans such as <a href="/wiki/Blue_Cross_Blue_Shield_Association" title="Blue Cross Blue Shield Association">Blue Cross</a>,<a href="#cite_note-240">[237]</a> and between 1940 and 1950, the percentage of Americans with health insurance rose from 9 percent to above 50 percent.<a href="#cite_note-aecarroll1-241">[238]</a> With the support of the <a href="/wiki/American_Federation_of_Labor" title="American Federation of Labor">American Federation of Labor</a> (AFL), Truman proposed a national health insurance plan in November 1945, but it was defeated by an alliance of conservatives, the <a href="/wiki/American_Medical_Association" title="American Medical Association">American Medical Association</a> (which rallied the medical community against the bill),<a href="#cite_note-242">[239]</a> and the business community.<a href="#cite_note-243">[240]</a> Many labor unions discovered they could negotiate with business to obtain better health benefits for their own members, so they focused increasingly on that goal.<a href="#cite_note-244">[241]</a> The failure of Truman's healthcare plan solidified the status of private employers as the primary sponsors of <a href="/wiki/Health_insurance_in_the_United_States" title="Health insurance in the United States">health insurance in the United States</a>.<a href="#cite_note-aecarroll1-241">[238]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crime_and_corruption">Crime and corruption</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Crime and corruption">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Frank_Costello_-_Kefauver_Committee.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Frank_Costello_-_Kefauver_Committee.jpg/220px-Frank_Costello_-_Kefauver_Committee.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Frank_Costello_-_Kefauver_Committee.jpg/330px-Frank_Costello_-_Kefauver_Committee.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Frank_Costello_-_Kefauver_Committee.jpg/440px-Frank_Costello_-_Kefauver_Committee.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2733" data-file-height="2082" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Gangster" title="Gangster">Mobster</a> <a href="/wiki/Frank_Costello" title="Frank Costello">Frank Costello</a> testifying before the Kefauver Committee.</figcaption></figure> With more young men back on the streets and more money in circulation, petty crime rates went up after 1945. Far more serious was <a href="/wiki/Organized_crime" title="Organized crime">organized crime</a> run by professional criminal gangs, which became a favorite attack theme of Republican politicians and the media. The Justice Department in 1947 organized a 'racket squad' to build evidence for grand jury investigations in several major cities, and the income tax returns of many gambling entrepreneurs and racketeers were audited. However, federal officials were reluctant to share their new information with local law enforcement; Truman and his Attorney General <a href="/wiki/J._Howard_McGrath" title="J. Howard McGrath">J. Howard McGrath</a> told local officials that they had to bear the chief burden in defeating organized crime. Senator <a href="/wiki/Estes_Kefauver" title="Estes Kefauver">Estes Kefauver</a>, a liberal Democrat from Tennessee, launched a major Senate investigation in 1950 as chairman of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Special_Committee_to_Investigate_Crime_in_Interstate_Commerce" title="United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce">Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce</a>.<a href="#cite_note-245">[242]</a> Kefauver, although only a freshman in the Senate, received large-scale national coverage and became a presidential contender.<a href="#cite_note-246">[243]</a> The Kefauver committee exposed numerous charges of corruption among senior administration officials, some of whom received expensive fur coats and deep freezers in exchange for favors. Kefauver also found that over 160 <a href="/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Service" title="Internal Revenue Service">Internal Revenue Service</a> (IRS) officials took bribes, used their offices to run private businesses, embezzled federal funds, or tolerated corrupt behavior by their subordinates. The various scandals of organized crime did not directly touch Truman, but they highlighted and exacerbated his problems with scandals inside his administration, such as influence peddling.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKirkendall199085–86,_191–192,_228–229,_273–275,_321-247">[244]</a> In 1952, Truman appointed <a href="/wiki/Newbold_Morris" title="Newbold Morris">Newbold Morris</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Special_prosecutor" class="mw-redirect" title="Special prosecutor">special prosecutor</a> to investigate allegations of corruption at the IRS.<a href="#cite_note-248">[245]</a> When Attorney General McGrath fired Morris for being too zealous, Truman fired McGrath.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKirkendall199085–86,_191–192,_228–229,_273–275,_321-247">[244]</a><a href="#cite_note-249">[246]</a><a href="#cite_note-250">[d]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Domestic_responses_to_the_Cold_War">Domestic responses to the Cold War</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Domestic responses to the Cold War">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Anticommunist_liberalism">Anticommunist liberalism</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Anticommunist liberalism">edit</a>]</div> The onset of the Cold War produced turmoil in the left wing of the Democratic Party over foreign policy issues, especially regarding the role of the Soviet Union and the response to domestic communism. After the 1946 elections the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_Industrial_Organizations" title="Congress of Industrial Organizations">Congress of Industrial Organizations</a> (CIO) systematically purged communists and far-left sympathizers from leadership roles in its unions.<a href="#cite_note-251">[247]</a> The CIO expelled some unions that resisted the purge, notably its third-largest affiliate the <a href="/wiki/United_Electrical,_Radio_and_Machine_Workers_of_America" title="United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America">United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America</a> (UE).<a href="#cite_note-252">[248]</a><a href="#cite_note-253">[249]</a> Meanwhile, the AFL set up its first explicitly political unit, Labor's League for Political Education, and increasingly abandoned its historic tradition of nonpartisanship.<a href="#cite_note-254">[250]</a> Expelled leftists coalesced around Henry Wallace, who ran an independent campaign for president in 1948.<a href="#cite_note-255">[251]</a><a href="#cite_note-256">[252]</a> The reforms by the CIO and AFL put both organizations in a good position to fight off Henry Wallace, and the CIO and AFL worked enthusiastically for Truman's reelection.<a href="#cite_note-257">[253]</a> Opponents of Wallace also established an anti-Communist liberal group, <a href="/wiki/Americans_for_Democratic_Action" title="Americans for Democratic Action">Americans for Democratic Action</a> (ADA).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996146-258">[254]</a> Though often critical of the far-right's unrestrained attacks on alleged Communists, members of the ADA attacked left-wing activists who, they feared, took orders from Communist leaders in the Soviet Union.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996182–183-259">[255]</a> Truman established the <a href="/wiki/Temporary_Commission_on_Employee_Loyalty" title="Temporary Commission on Employee Loyalty">Temporary Commission on Employee Loyalty</a> in November 1946 to create employee loyalty standards designed to weed out communist sympathizers from the federal workforce.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy198483–84-260">[256]</a> In March 1947, Truman issued <a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_9835" title="Executive Order 9835">Executive Order 9835</a>, which ordered purges of left-wingers who refused to disavow communism. It removed about 300 federal employees who currently were members of or associated with any organization identified by the Attorney General as communist, fascist, or totalitarian. Anti-communist liberals by 1947–48 thus played a central role in the Democratic Party, and enthusiastically supported Truman's anti-communist foreign policy.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKirkendall199072–74,_216,_220–21,_305–306,_384–385-261">[257]</a><a href="#cite_note-262">[258]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Soviet_espionage_and_McCarthyism">Soviet espionage and McCarthyism</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Soviet espionage and McCarthyism">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:61-mccarranact-poster.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/15/61-mccarranact-poster.jpg/220px-61-mccarranact-poster.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="301" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/15/61-mccarranact-poster.jpg/330px-61-mccarranact-poster.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/15/61-mccarranact-poster.jpg/440px-61-mccarranact-poster.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2790" data-file-height="3814" /></a><figcaption>Civil libertarians and radical political activists considered the <a href="/wiki/McCarran_Internal_Security_Act" title="McCarran Internal Security Act">McCarran Internal Security Act</a> (enacted it over President Truman's <a href="/wiki/Veto" title="Veto">veto</a>) to be a dangerous and unconstitutional infringement of political liberty, as exemplified in this 1961 poster.</figcaption></figure> In August 1948, <a href="/wiki/Whittaker_Chambers" title="Whittaker Chambers">Whittaker Chambers</a>, a former spy for the Soviets and a senior editor at Time magazine, testified to the <a href="/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee" title="House Un-American Activities Committee">House Un-American Activities Committee</a> (HUAC) that an underground communist network had been working within the U.S. government since the 1930s. He accused a former State Department official, <a href="/wiki/Alger_Hiss" title="Alger Hiss">Alger Hiss</a>, of being a member of that network; Hiss denied the allegations but was convicted in January 1950 for perjury. The Soviet Union's success in exploding an atomic weapon in 1949 and the fall of the nationalist Chinese the same year led many Americans to conclude that subversion by Soviet spies had been responsible for American setbacks and Soviet successes, and to demand that communists be rooted out from the government and other places of influence. However, Truman did not fully share such opinions, and throughout his tenure he would balance a desire to maintain internal security against the fear that a red scare could hurt innocents and impede government operations.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200887–88-263">[259]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984194,_217–18-264">[260]</a> He famously called the Hiss trial a "red herring,"<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHamby1995522-265">[261]</a> but also presided over the prosecution of numerous Communist leaders under the terms of the <a href="/wiki/Smith_Act" title="Smith Act">Smith Act</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984217–218-266">[262]</a> Secretary of State Acheson's public support for Hiss, the revelation that British atomic bomb scientist <a href="/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs" title="Klaus Fuchs">Klaus Fuchs</a> was a spy, and various other events led current and former members of HUAC to decry the Truman administration, especially the State Department, as soft on communism. Republican Congressmen <a href="/wiki/Karl_E._Mundt" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl E. Mundt">Karl E. Mundt</a> of South Dakota and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> of California emerged as particularly vocal and prominent critics on HUAC. Wisconsin Senator <a href="/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy" title="Joseph McCarthy">Joseph McCarthy</a> used a speech in West Virginia to accuse the State Department of harboring communists, and rode the controversy to political fame.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWeinstein1997450–53-267">[263]</a> Truman responded by arguing that McCarthy's efforts would undermine the bipartisan foreign policy that had prevailed since the end of World War II and thereby give a political gift to the Soviet Union, but few Republicans spoke out against McCarthy during Truman's tenure in office.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984218–219-268">[264]</a> Democratic Senator <a href="/wiki/William_Benton_(senator)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Benton (senator)">William Benton</a> sponsored a motion to expel McCarthy from Congress, but the motion was defeated and Benton lost his 1952 re-election campaign; McCarthy, meanwhile, was re-elected.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984273–274-269">[265]</a> McCarthy's anti-Communist campaigns, part of a larger Red Scare, played a major role in shaping a more confrontational Cold War foreign policy. It also affected members of Congress and other political leaders, who now worried that the embrace of left-wing policies would leave themselves vulnerable to accusations of being "soft" on Communism.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996204–205-270">[266]</a> The outbreak of the Korean War led to renewed interest in such an internal security bill, which had previously been debated during the 80th Congress. Senator <a href="/wiki/Pat_McCarran" title="Pat McCarran">Pat McCarran</a> of Nevada put forward a bill that would require Communist organizations to register with the government, and allowed the president to indefinitely detain those who were suspected of having engaged in espionage. The bill received little opposition from members of Congress, who feared being labeled as pro-Communist, and it passed both the House and the Senate as the <a href="/wiki/McCarran_Internal_Security_Act" title="McCarran Internal Security Act">McCarran Internal Security Act</a>. Truman vetoed the bill in September 1950, arguing that it infringed on personal liberties and would be ineffective at protecting against subversion, but Congress overrode the veto.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984234–235-271">[267]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Immigration">Immigration</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Immigration">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_immigration_to_the_United_States" title="History of immigration to the United States">History of immigration to the United States</a></div> Immigration had been at a low level in the Great Depression and war years. It surged as the war ended, with the arrival of refugees and family members of citizens. The issue was not a high priority for the Truman administration, but there was great interest in Congress and among various ethnic groups.<a href="#cite_note-272">[268]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>] In 1945, the <a href="/wiki/War_Brides_Act" title="War Brides Act">War Brides Act</a> allowed foreign-born wives of U.S. citizens who had served in the U.S. Armed Forces to immigrate to the United States; it was later extended to include the fiancés of American soldiers. In 1946, the <a href="/wiki/Luce%E2%80%93Celler_Act" title="Luce–Celler Act">Luce–Celler Act</a> extended the right to become naturalized citizens to Filipinos and Asian Indians, setting the immigration quota at 100 people per year.<a href="#cite_note-273">[269]</a> In 1952, the <a href="/wiki/McCarran_Walter_Immigration_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="McCarran Walter Immigration Act">McCarran Walter Immigration Act</a> passed over Truman's veto. It kept the quota system of the <a href="/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924" title="Immigration Act of 1924">Immigration Act of 1924</a> but added many new opportunities for immigration from Europe and elsewhere. In practice two-thirds of the new arrivals entered outside the old quota system. Immigration law was effectively controlled by Congressman <a href="/wiki/Francis_E._Walter" title="Francis E. Walter">Francis E. Walter</a> of Pennsylvania, a Democrat who wanted to minimize immigration.<a href="#cite_note-274">[270]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Failed_seizure_of_steel_mills">Failed seizure of steel mills</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Failed seizure of steel mills">edit</a>]</div> Though they never reached the severity of the strike wave of 1945–1946, labor disruptions continued to affect the country after 1946.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984290–291-275">[271]</a> When a steel strike loomed in April 1952, Truman instructed Secretary of Commerce <a href="/wiki/Charles_W._Sawyer" title="Charles W. Sawyer">Charles W. Sawyer</a> to seize and continue operations of the nation's steel mills. Truman cited his authority as Commander in Chief and the need to maintain an uninterrupted supply of steel for munitions to be used in the war in Korea. The Supreme Court found the seizure unconstitutional, and reversed the order in a major <a href="/wiki/Separation_of_powers" title="Separation of powers">separation-of-powers</a> decision, <a href="/wiki/Youngstown_Sheet_%26_Tube_Co._v._Sawyer" title="Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer">Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer</a> (1952). The 6–3 decision, which held that Truman's assertion of authority was too vague and was not rooted in any legislative action by Congress, was delivered by a Court composed entirely of Justices appointed by either Truman or Roosevelt. The high court's reversal of Truman's order was his most notable legal defeat.<a href="#cite_note-276">[272]</a> The Supreme Court decision left the country with the possibility of a critical steel shortage, but Truman was able to convince the steel managers and organized labor to reach a settlement in July 1952.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984293-277">[273]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Territories_and_dependencies">Territories and dependencies</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Territories and dependencies">edit</a>]</div> Truman sought to grant greater rights to the territories and dependencies of the United States. He unsuccessfully pushed for the admission of Hawaii and Alaska as states but Congress did not act on this proposal. Truman was more successful in pushing <a href="/wiki/Organic_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Organic Act">organic legislation</a> for <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samoa" title="Samoa">Samoa</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands" title="Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands">Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands</a>, the latter of which had been acquired from Japan after World War II. This legislation, passed in 1950 and 1951, transferred the territories from military to civilian administration, though the Navy continued to exercise considerable influence.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984205–207-278">[274]</a> In 1952, Congress passed a bill to recognize Puerto Rico's <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Constitution of Puerto Rico">newly written constitution</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984295–296-279">[275]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Elections_during_the_Truman_presidency">Elections during the Truman presidency</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Elections during the Truman presidency">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"> <caption><a href="/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_States_Congresses" title="Party divisions of United States Congresses">Democratic seats in Congress</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Congress </th> <th>Senate </th> <th>House </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/79th_United_States_Congress" title="79th United States Congress">79th</a> </th> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">57 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">243 </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/80th_United_States_Congress" title="80th United States Congress">80th</a> </th> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">45 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">188 </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/81st_United_States_Congress" title="81st United States Congress">81st</a> </th> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">54 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">263 </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/82nd_United_States_Congress" title="82nd United States Congress">82nd</a> </th> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">48 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">234 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1946_mid-term_elections">1946 mid-term elections</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: 1946 mid-term elections">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1946_United_States_elections" title="1946 United States elections">1946 United States elections</a></div> In the 1946 mid-term elections, Truman's Democrats suffered losses in both houses of Congress. Republicans, who had not controlled a chamber of Congress since the 1932 elections, took control of both the House and the Senate. Truman's party was hurt by a disappointing postwar economy,<a href="#cite_note-conley1-280">[276]</a> and the election was a major blow to Truman's hopes of passing his domestic policies.<a href="#cite_note-busch1-281">[277]</a> However, Dallek points to the 1946 elections as the moment when Truman became more sure of himself as president, and stopped trying to appease all factions of the public.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek200849–50-282">[278]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1948_election_campaign">1948 election campaign</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: 1948 election campaign">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_1948_presidential_campaign" title="Harry S. Truman 1948 presidential campaign">Harry S. Truman 1948 presidential campaign</a> and <a href="/wiki/1948_United_States_presidential_election" title="1948 United States presidential election">1948 United States presidential election</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/1948_United_States_elections" title="1948 United States elections">1948 United States elections</a>, <a href="/wiki/1948_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1948 Democratic Party presidential primaries">1948 Democratic Party presidential primaries</a>, and <a href="/wiki/1948_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1948 Democratic National Convention">1948 Democratic National Convention</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Truman-Dewey-polls-1948.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Truman-Dewey-polls-1948.jpg/220px-Truman-Dewey-polls-1948.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Truman-Dewey-polls-1948.jpg/330px-Truman-Dewey-polls-1948.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Truman-Dewey-polls-1948.jpg/440px-Truman-Dewey-polls-1948.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1151" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Clifford_K._Berryman" title="Clifford K. Berryman">Clifford K. Berryman</a>'s editorial cartoon of Oct. 19, 1948, shows the consensus of experts in mid-October</figcaption></figure> In the spring of 1948, Truman's public approval rating stood at 36%, and the president was nearly universally regarded as incapable of winning election in the <a href="/wiki/1948_United_States_presidential_election" title="1948 United States presidential election">1948 presidential election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-283">[279]</a> The "New Deal" loyalists within the party—including FDR's son <a href="/wiki/James_Roosevelt" title="James Roosevelt">James</a>—tried to swing the Democratic nomination to General <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>, a highly popular figure whose political views and party affiliation were totally unknown.<a href="#cite_note-284">[280]</a> Other liberals favored Associate Justice <a href="/wiki/William_O._Douglas" title="William O. Douglas">William O. Douglas</a>, but both Eisenhower and Douglas refused to enter the race, and the "Stop Truman" movement failed to unite around any other candidate.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996155–156-285">[281]</a> At the <a href="/wiki/1948_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1948 Democratic National Convention">1948 Democratic National Convention</a>, Truman attempted to unify the Northern delegations with a vague civil rights plank in the party platform. He was upstaged by liberals like Minneapolis Mayor <a href="/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey" title="Hubert Humphrey">Hubert Humphrey</a>, who convinced Truman and the convention to adopt a stronger civil rights plank.<a href="#cite_note-286">[282]</a> In response, many of the delegates from Alabama and Mississippi walked out of the convention. Unfazed, Truman delivered an aggressive acceptance speech attacking the 80th Congress, labeling it the "Do Nothing Congress."<a href="#cite_note-287">[283]</a> For his running mate, Truman accepted Kentucky Senator <a href="/wiki/Alben_W._Barkley" title="Alben W. Barkley">Alben W. Barkley</a> after his preferred candidate, Justice William O. Douglas, turned down the nomination.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPietrusza2011226–232-288">[284]</a> South Carolina Governor <a href="/wiki/Strom_Thurmond" title="Strom Thurmond">Strom Thurmond</a>, a segregationist, declared his candidacy for the presidency on a <a href="/wiki/Dixiecrat" title="Dixiecrat">Dixiecrat</a> ticket and led a full-scale revolt of Southern "<a href="/wiki/States%27_rights" title="States' rights">states' rights</a>" proponents. This rebellion on the right was matched by one on the left, led by Wallace on the <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1948)" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive Party (United States, 1948)">Progressive Party</a> ticket.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984153–158-289">[285]</a> Wallace strongly criticized Truman's approach to the Soviet Union,<a href="#cite_note-290">[286]</a> and the Progressive Party's platform addressed a wide array of issues, including support for the desegregation of public schools, <a href="/wiki/Gender_equality" title="Gender equality">gender equality</a>, a national health insurance program, free trade, and public ownership of large banks, railroads, and power utilities.<a href="#cite_note-291">[287]</a> Wallace won support from many liberals, intellectuals, union members, and military veterans.<a href="#cite_note-292">[288]</a> The Republicans, meanwhile, nominated New York Governor <a href="/wiki/Thomas_E._Dewey" title="Thomas E. Dewey">Thomas E. Dewey</a>, who had been the party's 1944 presidential nominee.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996158–159-293">[289]</a> Dewey waged a low-risk campaign and issued vague generalities on his plans once in office, while Thurmond found less support in the South than many had expected, as most white Southerners believed him to be too extreme. Wallace was unable to galvanize support behind his domestic policies, and his conciliatory attitude towards the Soviet Union alienated many potential supporters.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984160–162-294">[290]</a> Truman, meanwhile, crisscrossed the U.S. by train, delivering "<a href="/wiki/Whistle_stop_train_tour" class="mw-redirect" title="Whistle stop train tour">whistle stop</a>" speeches from the rear platform of the <a href="/wiki/Observation_car" title="Observation car">observation car</a>. His combative appearances, such as those at the town square of <a href="/wiki/Harrisburg,_Illinois" title="Harrisburg, Illinois">Harrisburg</a>, Illinois, captured the popular imagination and drew huge crowds.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCullough1992657-295">[291]</a> The large, mostly spontaneous gatherings at Truman's whistle stop events were an important sign of a change in momentum in the campaign, but this shift went virtually unnoticed by the national press corps. The three major polling organizations stopped polling well before the November 2 election date—<a href="/wiki/Elmo_Roper" title="Elmo Roper">Roper</a> in September, and Crossley and <a href="/wiki/The_Gallup_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="The Gallup Organization">Gallup</a> in October—thus failing to measure the period when Truman may have surged past Dewey in public support.<a href="#cite_note-296">[292]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege1948.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/ElectoralCollege1948.svg/330px-ElectoralCollege1948.svg.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="192" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/ElectoralCollege1948.svg/495px-ElectoralCollege1948.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/ElectoralCollege1948.svg/660px-ElectoralCollege1948.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1020" data-file-height="593" /></a><figcaption>President Truman defeated Republican <a href="/wiki/Thomas_E._Dewey" title="Thomas E. Dewey">Thomas E. Dewey</a> in the 1948 presidential election.</figcaption></figure> In the end, Truman held his progressive Midwestern base, won most of the Southern states despite the civil rights plank, and squeaked through with narrow victories in a few critical states, notably Ohio, California, and Illinois. He won over 50 percent of the popular vote and secured 303 electoral votes. Dewey received only 189 electoral votes; Thurmond garnered 39, and Henry Wallace none.<a href="#cite_note-297">[293]</a> Dewey carried several <a href="/wiki/Northeastern_United_States" title="Northeastern United States">Northeastern</a> states that had generally voted for Roosevelt, and the 1948 election was the closest presidential election since the <a href="/wiki/1916_United_States_presidential_election" title="1916 United States presidential election">1916 election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996162-298">[294]</a> In the concurrent congressional elections, the Democrats re-took control of the House and the Senate. The defining image of the campaign was a photograph snapped in the early morning hours of the day after the election, when an ecstatic Truman held aloft the erroneous front page of the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a> with a huge headline proclaiming "<a href="/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman" title="Dewey Defeats Truman">Dewey Defeats Truman</a>."<a href="#cite_note-299">[295]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1950_mid-term_elections">1950 mid-term elections</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: 1950 mid-term elections">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1950_United_States_elections" title="1950 United States elections">1950 United States elections</a></div> In Truman's second mid-term election, Republicans ran against Truman's proposed domestic policies and his handling of the Korean War. They picked up seats in both the House and the senate, but failed to gain control of either house of Congress.<a href="#cite_note-300">[296]</a> Truman was particularly upset by the apparent success of those who campaigned on McCarthyism.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek2008112–113-301">[297]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1952_elections_and_transition_period">1952 elections and transition period</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: 1952 elections and transition period">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Initial_Truman_campaign_and_withdrawal">Initial Truman campaign and withdrawal</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=52" title="Edit section: Initial Truman campaign and withdrawal">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#1952_election" title="Harry S. Truman">Harry S. Truman § 1952 election</a>, and <a href="/wiki/1952_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1952 Democratic Party presidential primaries">1952 Democratic Party presidential primaries</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gallup_Poll-Approval_Rating-Harry_S_Truman.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Gallup_Poll-Approval_Rating-Harry_S_Truman.png/330px-Gallup_Poll-Approval_Rating-Harry_S_Truman.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Gallup_Poll-Approval_Rating-Harry_S_Truman.png/495px-Gallup_Poll-Approval_Rating-Harry_S_Truman.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Gallup_Poll-Approval_Rating-Harry_S_Truman.png/660px-Gallup_Poll-Approval_Rating-Harry_S_Truman.png 2x" data-file-width="1786" data-file-height="1016" /></a><figcaption>Graph of Truman's approval ratings in <a href="/wiki/Gallup_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallup (company)">Gallup</a> polls</figcaption></figure> By the time of the <a href="/wiki/1952_New_Hampshire_Democratic_presidential_primary" title="1952 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary">1952 New Hampshire primary</a>, one of the first major contests held in the <a href="/wiki/1952_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1952 Democratic Party presidential primaries">1952 Democratic primaries</a>, Truman had not stated whether he would seek re-election, and no other candidate had won Truman's backing. Although the Twenty-second Amendment had been ratified, Truman could run for another term due to a <a href="/wiki/Grandfather_clause" title="Grandfather clause">grandfather clause</a> in the amendment. Truman's first choice to succeed him, Chief Justice Vinson, had declined to run, Illinois Governor <a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II" title="Adlai Stevenson II">Adlai Stevenson</a> had also turned Truman down, Vice President Barkley was considered too old,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCullough1992887-302">[298]</a> and Truman disliked Senator Kefauver. Accordingly, Truman let his name be entered in the New Hampshire primary by supporters. The highly unpopular Truman was handily defeated by Kefauver; 18 days later the president announced he would not seek a second full term. Truman was eventually able to persuade Stevenson to run, and the governor ultimately gained the nomination at the <a href="/wiki/1952_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1952 Democratic National Convention">1952 Democratic National Convention</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek2008139–142-303">[299]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="General_election_and_transition_period">General election and transition period</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=53" title="Edit section: General election and transition period">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1952_United_States_elections" title="1952 United States elections">1952 United States elections</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/1952_United_States_presidential_election" title="1952 United States presidential election">1952 United States presidential election</a> and <a href="/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Presidential transition of Dwight D. Eisenhower">Presidential transition of Dwight D. Eisenhower</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege1952.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/ElectoralCollege1952.svg/330px-ElectoralCollege1952.svg.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="192" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/ElectoralCollege1952.svg/495px-ElectoralCollege1952.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/ElectoralCollege1952.svg/660px-ElectoralCollege1952.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1020" data-file-height="593" /></a><figcaption>Republican <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> defeated Democrat <a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II" title="Adlai Stevenson II">Adlai Stevenson II</a> in the 1952 presidential election</figcaption></figure> General Dwight D. Eisenhower's public stature, along with his unknown views on domestic issues, had made him appealing as a potential candidate for both parties in the 1948 election. Though he had generally supported Truman's foreign policy, Eisenhower privately held conservative views on most domestic issues and never seriously considered running for office as a Democrat. Beginning in 1951, eastern, internationalist Republicans, led by Thomas Dewey and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., coordinated a <a href="/wiki/Draft_Eisenhower_movement" title="Draft Eisenhower movement">draft movement</a> designed to nominate Eisenhower as the Republican candidate for president. Eisenhower initially resisted these efforts, but in March 1952 he agreed to allow his name to be entered into the New Hampshire primary. He was motivated in part by his desire to defeat <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Taft" title="Robert A. Taft">Robert A. Taft</a>, the other major contender for the Republican nomination. The <a href="/wiki/1952_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1952 Republican Party presidential primaries">1952 Republican primaries</a> became a battle between Dewey's internationalist wing of the party and Taft's conservative, isolationist wing. Eisenhower narrowly prevailed over Taft at the <a href="/wiki/1952_Republican_National_Convention" title="1952 Republican National Convention">1952 Republican National Convention</a>; with the approval of Eisenhower, the convention nominated Richard Nixon for vice president.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996249–252-304">[300]</a> The once good Truman-Eisenhower relationship soured during the campaign. Truman was appalled when Eisenhower appeared on the same platform with Joseph McCarthy in Wisconsin, and failed to defend General George Marshall, who McCarthy had recently denounced as a failure in China.<a href="#cite_note-305">[301]</a> Eisenhower was outraged when Truman, who made a whistle-stop tour in support of Stevenson, accused Ike of disregarding "sinister forces ... Anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, and anti-foreignism" within the Republican Party.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek2008144-306">[302]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1096940132">.mw-parser-output .listen .side-box-text{line-height:1.1em}.mw-parser-output .listen-plain{border:none;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded{width:100%;margin:0;border-width:1px 0 0 0;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-header{padding:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded .listen-header{padding:2px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen-file-header{padding:4px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen .description{padding-top:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen .mw-tmh-player{max-width:100%}@media(max-width:719px){.mw-parser-output .listen{clear:both}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .listen:not(.listen-noimage){width:320px}.mw-parser-output .listen-left{overflow:visible;float:left}.mw-parser-output .listen-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right listen noprint"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/50px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/75px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/100px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160" /><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Harry_S._Truman%27s_farewell_address_1953.ogg" title="File:Harry S. Truman's farewell address 1953.ogg">Harry S. Truman's Farewell Address</a></div> <div><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="1473" data-mwtitle="Harry_S._Truman's_farewell_address_1953.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Harry_S._Truman%27s_farewell_address_1953.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/Harry_S._Truman%27s_farewell_address_1953.ogg/Harry_S._Truman%27s_farewell_address_1953.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></div> <div class="description">Harry S. Truman's speech on leaving office, and returning home to Independence, Missouri. (January 15, 1953)</div></div></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"><hr />Problems playing this file? See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</div> </div> Though Stevenson's public service and issue-oriented campaign appealed to many liberals, he was unable to rally support among blacks, ethnic whites, and the working class.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996252–255-307">[303]</a> Eisenhower campaigned against what he denounced as Truman's failures: "Korea, Communism and Corruption."<a href="#cite_note-308">[304]</a> Polls consistently indicated that Eisenhower would win the race, and Nixon deftly handled a potentially dangerous controversy over his finances with his <a href="/wiki/Checkers_speech" title="Checkers speech">Checkers speech</a>, delivered live on national <a href="/wiki/Television" title="Television">television</a>. In part due to the Checkers speech, television emerged as an important medium in the race; the number of households with televisions had grown from under 200,000 in 1948 to over 15 million in 1952.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996256–258-309">[305]</a> On election day, as widely expected, Eisenhower defeated Stevenson by a wide margin. Eisenhower took 55.4 percent of the popular vote and won 442 electoral votes, taking almost every state outside of the South. Though Eisenhower ran ahead of most congressional Republicans, his party nonetheless took control of both the House and Senate, giving the Republican Party unified control of Congress and the presidency for the first time since the <a href="/wiki/United_States_elections,_1930" class="mw-redirect" title="United States elections, 1930">1930 elections</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson1996260-310">[306]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_reputation">Historical reputation</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=54" title="Edit section: Historical reputation">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Truman_pass-the-buck.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Man in suit sitting behind desk with sign that says "The buck stops here"" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Truman_pass-the-buck.jpg/220px-Truman_pass-the-buck.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Truman_pass-the-buck.jpg/330px-Truman_pass-the-buck.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Truman_pass-the-buck.jpg/440px-Truman_pass-the-buck.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="863" /></a><figcaption>Truman poses in 1959 at the recreation of the Truman Oval Office at the Truman Library in 1959, with the famous "<a href="/wiki/The_Buck_Stops_Here" class="mw-redirect" title="The Buck Stops Here">The Buck Stops Here</a>" sign on his desk.</figcaption></figure> Truman's <a href="/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States" title="Historical rankings of presidents of the United States">ranking in polls of historians and political scientists</a> have never fallen lower than ninth, and he has ranked as high as fifth in a <a href="/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a> poll in 2009.<a href="#cite_note-311">[307]</a> A 2018 poll of the <a href="/wiki/American_Political_Science_Association" title="American Political Science Association">American Political Science Association</a>’s Presidents and Executive Politics section ranked Truman as the seventh best president,<a href="#cite_note-312">[308]</a> and a 2017 <a href="/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a> poll of historians ranked Truman as the sixth best president.<a href="#cite_note-313">[309]</a> When he left office in 1953, the American public saw Truman as one of the most unpopular chief executives in history. His job approval rating of 22% in the Gallup Poll of February 1952 was lower than Richard Nixon's 24% in August 1974, the month that Nixon resigned in the wake of the <a href="/wiki/Watergate_scandal" title="Watergate scandal">Watergate scandal</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 1952, journalist <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Lubell" title="Samuel Lubell">Samuel Lubell</a> stated that "after seven years of Truman's hectic, even furious, activity the nation seemed to be about on the same general spot as when he first came to office ... Nowhere in the whole Truman record can one point to a single, decisive break-through ... All his skills and energies—and he was among our hardest-working Presidents—were directed to standing still".<a href="#cite_note-lubell1956-314">[310]</a> During the years of campus unrest in the 1960s and 1970s, revisionist historians on the left attacked his foreign policy as too hostile to Communism, and his domestic policy as too favorable toward business.<a href="#cite_note-315">[311]</a> However, Truman's image in university textbooks was quite favorable in the 1950s,<a href="#cite_note-316">[312]</a> and more established scholars never accepted the critiques of revisionist historians.<a href="#cite_note-317">[313]</a><a href="#cite_note-318">[314]</a> American public feeling towards Truman grew steadily warmer with the passing years. Truman died in 1972, and his death brought a new wave of attention to his political career.<a href="#cite_note-319">[315]</a> During this period, Truman captured the popular imagination, emerging as a kind of political folk hero, a president who was thought to exemplify an integrity and accountability many observers felt was lacking in <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Presidency of Richard Nixon">the Nixon White House</a>. This public reassessment of Truman was aided by the popularity of a book of reminiscences which Truman had told to journalist <a href="/wiki/Merle_Miller" title="Merle Miller">Merle Miller</a> beginning in 1961, with the agreement that they would not be published until after Truman's death. Scholars who have compared the audio tapes with the published transcripts have concluded that Miller often distorted what Truman said or fabricated statements Truman never said.<a href="#cite_note-320">[316]</a> The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 caused Truman advocates to claim vindication for Truman's decisions in the postwar period. According to Truman biographer Robert Dallek, "His contribution to victory in the cold war without a devastating nuclear conflict elevated him to the stature of a great or near-great president."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek2008152-222">[219]</a> The 1992 publication of <a href="/wiki/David_McCullough" title="David McCullough">David McCullough</a>'s favorable biography of Truman further cemented the view of Truman as a highly regarded chief executive.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDallek2008152-222">[219]</a> Nevertheless, Truman continued to receive criticism. After a review of information available to Truman about the presence of espionage activities in the U.S. government, Democratic Senator <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Patrick_Moynihan" title="Daniel Patrick Moynihan">Daniel Patrick Moynihan</a> concluded that Truman was "almost willfully obtuse" concerning the danger of American communism.<a href="#cite_note-321">[317]</a> In 2002, historian <a href="/wiki/Alonzo_Hamby" title="Alonzo Hamby">Alonzo Hamby</a> concluded that "Harry Truman remains a controversial president."<a href="#cite_note-322">[318]</a> According to historian Daniel R. McCoy in his book on the Truman presidency, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"> Harry Truman himself gave a strong and far-from-incorrect impression of being a tough, concerned and direct leader. He was occasionally vulgar, often partisan, and usually nationalistic ... On his own terms, Truman can be seen as having prevented the coming of a third world war and having preserved from Communist oppression much of what he called the free world. Yet clearly he largely failed to achieve his Wilsonian aim of securing perpetual peace, making the world safe for democracy, and advancing opportunities for individual development internationally.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCoy1984318–19-323">[319]</a> </blockquote> Biographer Robert Donovan has emphasized Truman's personality:<blockquote>Vigorous, hard-working, simple, he had grown up close to the soil of the Midwest and understood the struggles of the people on the farms and in the small towns....After 10 years in the Senate, he had risen above the Pendergast organization. Still, he had come from a world of two-bit politicians, and its aura was one that he never was able to shed entirely. And he did retain certain characteristics one often sees in machine-bred politicians: intense partisanship, stubborn loyalty, a certain insensitivity about the transgressions of political associates, and a disinclination for the companionship of intellectuals and artists.<a href="#cite_note-324">[320]</a></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=55" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-133"><a href="#cite_ref-133">^</a> For the historiography see <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBrazinsky2012" class="citation book cs1">Brazinsky, Gregg (2012). "The Birth of a Rivalry: Sino-American Relations during the Truman Administration". In Margolies, Daniel S. (ed.). A Companion to Harry S. Truman. pp. 484–497.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Birth+of+a+Rivalry%3A+Sino-American+Relations+during+the+Truman+Administration&rft.btitle=A+Companion+to+Harry+S.+Truman&rft.pages=484-497&rft.date=2012&rft.aulast=Brazinsky&rft.aufirst=Gregg&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-205"><a href="#cite_ref-205">^</a> The Twenty-second Amendment limited presidents to two full terms. For the purposes of the amendment, a partial term of more than two years would count towards the term limit. 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Simon & Schuster. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-671-86920-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-671-86920-5"><bdi>978-0-671-86920-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Truman&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=978-0-671-86920-5&rft.aulast=McCullough&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPatterson1996" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/James_T._Patterson_(historian)" title="James T. Patterson (historian)">Patterson, James</a> (1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/grandexpectation00patt">Grand Expectations: The United States 1945–1974</a>. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0195117974" title="Special:BookSources/978-0195117974"><bdi>978-0195117974</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Grand+Expectations%3A+The+United+States+1945%E2%80%931974&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=978-0195117974&rft.aulast=Patterson&rft.aufirst=James&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fgrandexpectation00patt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPietrusza2011" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/David_Pietrusza" title="David Pietrusza">Pietrusza, David</a> (2011). 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America. Union Square Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4027-6748-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4027-6748-7"><bdi>978-1-4027-6748-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=1948%3A+Harry+Truman%27s+Improbable+Victory+and+the+Year+That+Transformed+America&rft.pub=Union+Square+Press&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-1-4027-6748-7&rft.aulast=Pietrusza&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStokesbury1990" class="citation book cs1">Stokesbury, James L. (1990). A Short History of the Korean War. New York: Harper Perennial. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-688-09513-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-688-09513-0"><bdi>978-0-688-09513-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Short+History+of+the+Korean+War&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Harper+Perennial&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=978-0-688-09513-0&rft.aulast=Stokesbury&rft.aufirst=James+L.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTruman1973" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Truman" title="Margaret Truman">Truman, Margaret</a> (1973). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/harrystruman001666">Harry S. Truman</a>. New York: William Morrow. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-688-00005-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-688-00005-9"><bdi>978-0-688-00005-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Harry+S.+Truman&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=William+Morrow&rft.date=1973&rft.isbn=978-0-688-00005-9&rft.aulast=Truman&rft.aufirst=Margaret&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fharrystruman001666&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWeinstein1997" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Allen_Weinstein" title="Allen Weinstein">Weinstein, Allen</a> (1997). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/perjuryhisschamb0000wein">Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case</a> (revised ed.). Random House. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-679-77338-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-679-77338-X"><bdi>0-679-77338-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Perjury%3A+The+Hiss-Chambers+Case&rft.edition=revised&rft.pub=Random+House&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=0-679-77338-X&rft.aulast=Weinstein&rft.aufirst=Allen&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fperjuryhisschamb0000wein&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=58" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="Bibliography of Harry S. Truman">Bibliography of Harry S. Truman</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Truman's_roles,_politics">Truman's roles, politics</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=59" title="Edit section: Truman's roles, politics">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Baime, Albert J. Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul (Houghton Mifflin, 2020).</li> <li>Berman, William C. The politics of civil rights in the Truman administration (Ohio State UP, 1970). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/6276/1/THE_POLITICS_OF_CIVIL_RIGHTS_IN_THE_TRUMAN_ADMINISTRATION.pdf">dissertation version online</a></li> <li>Bernstein, Barton J. "The Truman administration and the steel strike of 1946." Journal of American History 52.4 (1966): 791–803. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1894347">online</a></li> <li>Bernstein, Barton J. "The Truman administration and its reconversion wage policy." Labor History 6.3 (1965): 214–231.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrembeck1952" class="citation journal cs1">Brembeck, Cole S. (1952). "Harry Truman at the whistle stops". Quarterly Journal of Speech. 38: 42–50. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00335635209381730">10.1080/00335635209381730</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Quarterly+Journal+of+Speech&rft.atitle=Harry+Truman+at+the+whistle+stops&rft.volume=38&rft.pages=42-50&rft.date=1952&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F00335635209381730&rft.aulast=Brembeck&rft.aufirst=Cole+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Brinkley, Douglas. Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening (2022) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Spring-Revolution-Environmental-Awakening/dp/0063212919/">excerpt</a>. chapter 2 on Truman</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCasey2012" class="citation book cs1">Casey, Steven (2012). "Rhetoric and Style of Truman's Leadership". A Companion to Harry S. Truman. pp. 26–46. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1002%2F9781118300718.ch2">10.1002/9781118300718.ch2</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781118300718" title="Special:BookSources/9781118300718"><bdi>9781118300718</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Rhetoric+and+Style+of+Truman%27s+Leadership&rft.btitle=A+Companion+to+Harry+S.+Truman&rft.pages=26-46&rft.date=2012&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1002%2F9781118300718.ch2&rft.isbn=9781118300718&rft.aulast=Casey&rft.aufirst=Steven&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Ciment, James, ed. Postwar America: An Encyclopedia Of Social, Political, Cultural, And Economic History (4 vol 2006); 550 articles in 2000 pp</li> <li>Cochran, Bert. Harry Truman and the crisis presidency (1973); 432pp.</li> <li>Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation 1945–1964 (1965), Highly detailed and factual coverage of Congress and presidential politics; 1784 pages. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/congressnation45-64cong/mode/1up">online</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDaniels1998" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_W._Daniels" title="Jonathan W. Daniels">Daniels, Jonathan</a> (1998). The Man of Independence. University of Missouri Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8262-1190-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-8262-1190-9"><bdi>0-8262-1190-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Man+of+Independence&rft.pub=University+of+Missouri+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=0-8262-1190-9&rft.aulast=Daniels&rft.aufirst=Jonathan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Daniels. Roger, ed. Immigration and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman (2010).</li> <li>Daynes, Byron W. and Glen Sussman, White House Politics and the Environment: Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush (2010) pp 36–45.</li> <li>Donaldson, Gary A. Truman Defeats Dewey (University Press of Kentucky, 2014).</li> <li>Donovan, Robert J. Conflict and crisis: The presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945–1948. (1977). Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S Truman, 1949–1953 (vol 2 1982); journalistic</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFerrell1994" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hugh_Ferrell" title="Robert Hugh Ferrell">Ferrell, Robert Hugh</a> (1994). <a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman:_A_Life" title="Harry S. Truman: A Life">Harry S. Truman: A Life</a>. University of Missouri Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8262-1050-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8262-1050-0"><bdi>978-0-8262-1050-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Harry+S.+Truman%3A+A+Life&rft.pub=University+of+Missouri+Press&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=978-0-8262-1050-0&rft.aulast=Ferrell&rft.aufirst=Robert+Hugh&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Freeland, Richard. The Truman Doctrine and the Rise of McCarthyism (1971).</li> <li>Gardner, Michael R. Harry Truman and civil rights (SIU Press, 2002).</li> <li>Goulden, Joseph C. The Best Years: 1945–1950 (1976), popular social history</li> <li>Graff, Henry F. ed. The Presidents: A Reference History (2nd ed. 1997), pp 443–58.</li> <li>Gronlund, Mimi Clark. "A Controversial Appointment." Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark (University of Texas Press, 2021) pp. 137–146.</li> <li>Hah, Chong-do, and Robert M. Lindquist. "The 1952 steel seizure revisited: A systematic study in presidential decision making." Administrative Science Quarterly (1975): 587–605 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/29312/1952SteelSeizureRevisited.pdf?sequence=1">online</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHamby1991" class="citation journal cs1">Hamby, Alonzo L. (1991). "An American Democrat: A Reevaluation of the Personality of Harry S. Truman". Political Science Quarterly. 106 (1): 33–55. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2152173">10.2307/2152173</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2152173">2152173</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Political+Science+Quarterly&rft.atitle=An+American+Democrat%3A+A+Reevaluation+of+the+Personality+of+Harry+S.+Truman&rft.volume=106&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=33-55&rft.date=1991&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F2152173&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F2152173%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Hamby&rft.aufirst=Alonzo+L.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Hartmann, Susan M. Truman and the 80th Congress (1971) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/truman80thcongre0000hart_l3t6">online</a></li> <li>James, Rawn. The Truman Court: Law and the Limits of Loyalty (University of Missouri Press, 2021).</li> <li>Karabell, Zachary. The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election (Vintage, 2001).</li> <li>Lacey, Michael J. ed. The Truman Presidency (Cambridge University Press, 1991) 13 essays by specialists.</li> <li>Lee, R. Alton. "The Truman-80th Congress Struggle over Tax Policy." Historian 33.1 (1970): 68–82. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/24441075">online</a></li> <li>Lee, R. Alton. Truman and Taft-Hartley: A Question of Mandate (1966)</li> <li>McCoy, Donald R. and Richard T. Ruetten. Quest and Response: Minority Rights and the Truman Administration (U Press of Kansas, 1973).</li> <li>Marcus, Maeva. Truman and the Steel Seizure Case (Duke UP, 1994). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/truman-and-the-steel-seizure-case">link</a></li> <li>Matusow, Allen J. Farm policies and politics in the Truman years (Harvard UP, 1967).</li> <li>Mitchell, Franklin D. Harry S. Truman and the news media: contentious relations, belated respect (U of Missouri Press, 1998).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOshinsky2004" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/David_Oshinsky" title="David Oshinsky">Oshinsky, David M.</a> (2004). "Harry Truman". In Brinkley, Alan; Dyer, Davis (eds.). The American Presidency. Houghton Mifflin. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-618-38273-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-618-38273-6"><bdi>978-0-618-38273-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Harry+Truman&rft.btitle=The+American+Presidency&rft.pub=Houghton+Mifflin&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-0-618-38273-6&rft.aulast=Oshinsky&rft.aufirst=David+M.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Poen, Monte M. Harry S. Truman versus the medical lobby: The genesis of Medicare (U of Missouri Press, 1996).</li> <li>Pusey, Allen. "Truman Seizes Steel Mills." American Bar Association Journal 103 (2017): 72+.</li> <li>Richardson, Elmo. Dams, Parks and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation the Truman-Eisenhower Era (1973).</li> <li>Ris, Ethan W. "Higher education deals in democracy: The Truman Commission Report as a political document." Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 54.1 (2022): 17–23. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00091383.2022.2006564">online</a></li> <li>Savage, Sean J. Truman and the Democratic Party (1997) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/trumandemocratic0000sava_e7i4">online</a></li> <li>Schoenebaum, Eleanora W. ed. Political Profiles: The Truman Years (1978) 715pp; short biographies of 435 players in national politics 1945–1952.</li> <li>Sitkoff, Harvard. "Harry Truman and the election of 1948: The coming of age of civil rights in American politics." Journal of Southern History 37.4 (1971): 597–616 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2206548">online</a>.</li> <li>Stebbins, Phillip E. "Truman and the Seizure of Steel: A Failure in Communication." The Historian 34.1 (1971): 1–21 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/24442787">online</a>.</li> <li>Swanson, Charles E., James Jenkins, and Robert L. Jones. "President Truman Speaks: A Study of Ideas vs. Media." Journalism Quarterly 27.3 (1950): 251–262.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_and_military_policy">Foreign and military policy</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=60" title="Edit section: Foreign and military policy">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Acheson, Dean. Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), a major primary source. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/presentatcreatio0000unse">online</a></li> <li>Anderson Terry H. The United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War, 1944–1947. (1981)</li> <li>Beisner, Robert L. Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War (2015) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/deanachesonlifei00beis">online</a>, a major scholarly study</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBlomstedt,_Larry2015" class="citation book cs1">Blomstedt, Larry (2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hWzgCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37">Truman, Congress, and Korea: The Politics of America's First Undeclared War</a>. U Press of Kentucky. pp. 33–38. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780813166124" title="Special:BookSources/9780813166124"><bdi>9780813166124</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Truman%2C+Congress%2C+and+Korea%3A+The+Politics+of+America%27s+First+Undeclared+War&rft.pages=33-38&rft.pub=U+Press+of+Kentucky&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=9780813166124&rft.au=Blomstedt%2C+Larry&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DhWzgCgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA37&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCasey2005" class="citation journal cs1">Casey, Steven (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/735/1/Selling_NSC68--DH.pdf">"Selling NSC-68: The Truman Administration, Public Opinion, and the Politics of Mobilization, 1950-51"</a> (PDF). Diplomatic History. 29 (4): 655–690. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-7709.2005.00510.x">10.1111/j.1467-7709.2005.00510.x</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Diplomatic+History&rft.atitle=Selling+NSC-68%3A+The+Truman+Administration%2C+Public+Opinion%2C+and+the+Politics+of+Mobilization%2C+1950-51&rft.volume=29&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=655-690&rft.date=2005&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2Fj.1467-7709.2005.00510.x&rft.aulast=Casey&rft.aufirst=Steven&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Feprints.lse.ac.uk%2F735%2F1%2FSelling_NSC68--DH.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation 1945–1964 (1965), Highly detailed and factual coverage of foreign and defense policy; pp 89–334; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/congressnation45-64cong/mode/1up">online</a></li> <li>Dobbs, Michael. Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman—from World War to Cold War (2012) popular narrative</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDudziak2011" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Mary_L._Dudziak" title="Mary L. Dudziak">Dudziak, Mary L.</a> (2011). 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A Military History of the Cold War, 1944–1962 (2012) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Military-History-1944-1962-Campaigns-Commanders/dp/0806142626/">excerpt and text search</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Isaacson" title="Walter Isaacson">Isaacson Walter</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Evan_Thomas" title="Evan Thomas">Evan Thomas</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Wise_Men._Six_Friends_and_the_World_They_Made._Acheson,_Bohlen,_Harriman,_Kennan,_Lovett,_McCloy" class="mw-redirect" title="The Wise Men. Six Friends and the World They Made. Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy">The Wise Men. Six Friends and the World They Made. Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy</a>. (1986) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Wise-Men-Friends-World-They/dp/1476728828/">excerpt</a>.</li> <li>Larson, Deborah Welch. 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The Journal of Military History. 66 (4): 1001–1010. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F3093261">10.2307/3093261</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3093261">3093261</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Journal+of+Military+History&rft.atitle=1947-48%3A+When+Marshall+Kept+the+U.S.+Out+of+War+in+China&rft.volume=66&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=1001-1010&rft.date=2002&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F3093261&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F3093261%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=May&rft.aufirst=Ernest+R.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marshallfoundation.org%2Fnewsroom%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2016%2F01%2FMay-2002.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Matray, James I., and Donald W. 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"History, historians and the naming of foreign policy: A postmodern reflection on American strategic thinking during the Truman administration". Intelligence and National Security. 16 (3): 146–165. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F02684520412331306250">10.1080/02684520412331306250</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154408227">154408227</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Intelligence+and+National+Security&rft.atitle=History%2C+historians+and+the+naming+of+foreign+policy%3A+A+postmodern+reflection+on+American+strategic+thinking+during+the+Truman+administration&rft.volume=16&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=146-165&rft.date=2001&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F02684520412331306250&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A154408227%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Corke&rft.aufirst=Sarah-Jane&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Dalfiume, Richard M. "Truman and the Historians: A Review Article." Wisconsin Magazine of History 50#3 (1967), pp. 261–264 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4634258">online</a></li> <li>Ferrell, Robert H. Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists (U of Missouri Press, 2006).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGaddis1983" class="citation journal cs1">Gaddis, John Lewis (1983). "The Emerging Post-Revisionist Synthesis on the Origins of the Cold War". Diplomatic History. 7 (3): 171–190. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-7709.1983.tb00389.x">10.1111/j.1467-7709.1983.tb00389.x</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154907275">154907275</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Diplomatic+History&rft.atitle=The+Emerging+Post-Revisionist+Synthesis+on+the+Origins+of+the+Cold+War&rft.volume=7&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=171-190&rft.date=1983&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2Fj.1467-7709.1983.tb00389.x&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A154907275%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Gaddis&rft.aufirst=John+Lewis&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Griffith, Robert. "Truman and the Historians: The Reconstruction of Postwar American History." Wisconsin Magazine of History (1975) 59#1 : 20–47. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4635005">in JSTOR</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHogan1996" class="citation book cs1">Hogan, Michael J. (1996). Hogan, Michael J (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/americainworldhi00hoga">America in the World</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FCBO9780511609473">10.1017/CBO9780511609473</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521498074" title="Special:BookSources/9780521498074"><bdi>9780521498074</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=America+in+the+World&rft.date=1996&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FCBO9780511609473&rft.isbn=9780521498074&rft.aulast=Hogan&rft.aufirst=Michael+J.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Famericainworldhi00hoga&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Kirkendall, Richard S. The Truman period as a research field: A Reappraisal, 1972 (2nd ed. 1974; 1st ed. 1967); For major essays plus commentaries by experts, 246pp.</li> <li>Kort, Michael. "The Historiography of Hiroshima: The Rise and Fall of Revisionism." New England Journal of History 64#1 (2007): 31–48. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170510104213/http://www.fairbanksonline.net/Fairbanks_Online/Atomic_Bomb_Trials_Research_files/truman_bomb.pdf">online</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMargolies2012" class="citation book cs1">Margolies, Daniel S, ed. (2012). A Companion to Harry S. Truman. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1002%2F9781118300718">10.1002/9781118300718</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781118300718" title="Special:BookSources/9781118300718"><bdi>9781118300718</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Companion+to+Harry+S.+Truman&rft.date=2012&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1002%2F9781118300718&rft.isbn=9781118300718&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Orren, Karen, and Stephen Skowronek. "Regimes and regime building in American government: A review of literature on the 1940s." Political Science Quarterly 113.4 (1998): 689–702. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2658250">online</a></li> <li>Ris, Ethan W., and Eddie R. Cole. "Promises Made: The Truman Commission Report at 75." Peabody Journal of Education (2023): 1–4. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0161956X.2023.2216078">online</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSavage2012" class="citation book cs1">Savage, Sean J. (2012). "Truman in Historical, Popular, and Political Memory". A Companion to Harry S. Truman. pp. 7–25. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1002%2F9781118300718.ch1">10.1002/9781118300718.ch1</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781118300718" title="Special:BookSources/9781118300718"><bdi>9781118300718</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Truman+in+Historical%2C+Popular%2C+and+Political+Memory&rft.btitle=A+Companion+to+Harry+S.+Truman&rft.pages=7-25&rft.date=2012&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1002%2F9781118300718.ch1&rft.isbn=9781118300718&rft.aulast=Savage&rft.aufirst=Sean+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith1976" class="citation journal cs1">Smith, Geoffrey S. (1976). ""Harry, We Hardly Know You": Revisionism, Politics and Diplomacy, 1945–1954: A Review Essay". American Political Science Review. 70 (2): 560–582. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F1959657">10.2307/1959657</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1959657">1959657</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144330938">144330938</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Political+Science+Review&rft.atitle=%22Harry%2C+We+Hardly+Know+You%22%3A+Revisionism%2C+Politics+and+Diplomacy%2C+1945%E2%80%931954%3A+A+Review+Essay&rft.volume=70&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=560-582&rft.date=1976&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A144330938%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F1959657%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F1959657&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=Geoffrey+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWalker2005" class="citation journal cs1">Walker, j. Samuel (2005). "Recent Literature on Truman's Atomic Bomb Decision: A Search for Middle Ground". Diplomatic History. 29 (2): 311–334. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-7709.2005.00476.x">10.1111/j.1467-7709.2005.00476.x</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154708989">154708989</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Diplomatic+History&rft.atitle=Recent+Literature+on+Truman%27s+Atomic+Bomb+Decision%3A+A+Search+for+Middle+Ground&rft.volume=29&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=311-334&rft.date=2005&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2Fj.1467-7709.2005.00476.x&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A154708989%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Walker&rft.aufirst=j.+Samuel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliams1979" class="citation journal cs1">Williams, Robert J. (1979). "Harry S. Truman and the American Presidency". Journal of American Studies. 13 (3): 393–408. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0021875800007428">10.1017/S0021875800007428</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144817103">144817103</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+American+Studies&rft.atitle=Harry+S.+Truman+and+the+American+Presidency&rft.volume=13&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=393-408&rft.date=1979&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FS0021875800007428&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A144817103%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Williams&rft.aufirst=Robert+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Primary_sources">Primary sources</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=62" title="Edit section: Primary sources">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Acheson, Dean. Present at the creation: My years in the State Department (1987). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/presentatcreatio0000unse">online</a></li> <li>Bernstein, Barton J. and Allen J. Matusow, eds. The Truman administration: A Documentary History (1966); 518 pp., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/politicspolicies00bern">online</a></li> <li>Clark, Clifford, and Holbrooke Richard. Counsel to the President (1991).</li> <li>Gallup, George H., ed. The Gallup Poll-Public Opinion-Volume One (1935–1948); (1972); The Gallup Poll-Public Opinion-Volume Two (1949–1958) (1972)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGiglio2001" class="citation book cs1">Giglio, James N. (2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/trumanincartoonc00gigl">Truman in cartoon and caricature</a>. Kirksville: Truman State University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8138-1806-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8138-1806-1"><bdi>978-0-8138-1806-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Truman+in+cartoon+and+caricature&rft.place=Kirksville&rft.pub=Truman+State+University+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=978-0-8138-1806-1&rft.aulast=Giglio&rft.aufirst=James+N.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ftrumanincartoonc00gigl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Hamby, Alonzo L., ed. Harry S. Truman and the Fair Deal (1974); 223pp; short excerpts from primary sources and from experts.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMartin1960" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_William_Martin_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph William Martin Jr.">Martin, Joseph William</a> (1960). My First Fifty Years in Politics as Told to Robert J. Donovan. New York: McGraw-Hill.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=My+First+Fifty+Years+in+Politics+as+Told+to+Robert+J.+Donovan&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=McGraw-Hill&rft.date=1960&rft.aulast=Martin&rft.aufirst=Joseph+William&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Leahy, William D. I was There: The Personal Story of the Chief of Staff to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, Based on His Notes and Diaries Made at the Time (1950).</li> <li>Merrill, Dennis, ed. Documentary history of the Truman presidency (University Publications of America, 2001).</li> <li>Miller, Merle. Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman (1974). WARNING: Scholars who have compared the audio tapes with the published transcripts have concluded the Miller often distorted what Truman said or fabricated statements Truman never made. See Robert H. Ferrell, & Francis H. Heller, (May–June 1995). "Plain Faking?". American Heritage Vol. 46, no. 3. pp. 21–33.</li> <li>Roosevelt, Eleanor. ed. Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (Citadel Press, 2004)</li> <li>Truman, Harry S. Public papers of the presidents of the United States (8 vol. Federal Register Division, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1946–53).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTruman1980" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman">Truman, Harry S.</a> (1980). <a href="/wiki/Robert_Hugh_Ferrell" title="Robert Hugh Ferrell">Ferrell, Robert H.</a> (ed.). <a href="/wiki/Off_the_Record:_The_Private_Papers_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman">Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman</a>. Harper & Row. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8262-1119-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8262-1119-4"><bdi>978-0-8262-1119-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Off+the+Record%3A+The+Private+Papers+of+Harry+S.+Truman&rft.pub=Harper+%26+Row&rft.date=1980&rft.isbn=978-0-8262-1119-4&rft.aulast=Truman&rft.aufirst=Harry+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTruman1955" class="citation book cs1">Truman, Harry S. (1955). Memoirs: Year of Decisions. Vol. 1. Garden City, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">NY</a>: Doubleday.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Memoirs%3A+Year+of+Decisions&rft.place=Garden+City%2C+NY&rft.pub=Doubleday&rft.date=1955&rft.aulast=Truman&rft.aufirst=Harry+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.462682/2015.462682.The-Memoirs.pdf">online</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTruman1956" class="citation book cs1"> ———  (1956). Memoirs: Years of Trial and Hope. Vol. 2. Garden City, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">NY</a>: Doubleday.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Memoirs%3A+Years+of+Trial+and+Hope&rft.place=Garden+City%2C+NY&rft.pub=Doubleday&rft.date=1956&rft.aulast=Truman&rft.aufirst=Harry+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Harry+S.+Truman" class="Z3988"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/yearsoftrialandh000234mbp">online v 2</a></li> <li>Lyman Van Slyke, ed. The China White Paper: August 1949 (1967: 2 vol. Stanford U.P.); 1124pp; copy of official U.S. Department of State. China White Paper: 1949 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=HuB6gPHeP_cC">vol 1 online at Google</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/VanSlykeLymanTheChinaWhitePaper1949">online vol 1 pdf</a>; vol 2 is not online; see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63130113">library holdings via World Cat</a>; excerpt are in Barton J. Bernstein, and Allen J. Matusow, eds. The Truman administration: A Documentary History (1966) pp 299–355.</li> <li>Vandenberg, Arthur Hendrick. The Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg (1952), ed by Joe Alex Morris.</li> <li>The Documentary History of the Truman Presidency, edited by Dennis Merrill (35 vol. University Publications of America, 1996) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cisupa.proquest.com/ws_display.asp?filter=upa_intermediate&item_id=%7BB8C22FC8-1D2E-472D-92E0-27F3AE8EDDC2%7D">table of contents</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Harry_S._Truman&action=edit&section=63" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFussell1981" class="citation magazine cs1"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Fussell" title="Paul Fussell">Fussell, Paul</a> (August 1981). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS1300MET/v12/undervisningsmateriale/Fussel%20-%20thank%20god%20for%20the%20atom%20bomb.pdf">"Thank God for the Atom Bomb"</a> (PDF). 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Truman presidency">Timeline</a></li> <li>Inaugurations <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="First inauguration of Harry S. Truman">first</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="Second inauguration of Harry S. Truman">second</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman">Assassination attempt</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1952_Puerto_Rican_constitutional_referendum" title="1952 Puerto Rican constitutional referendum">1952 Puerto Rican constitutional referendum</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Union" title="State of the Union">State of the Union Address</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1946_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1946 State of the Union Address">1946</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1947_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1947 State of the Union Address">1947</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1948 State of the Union Address">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1949_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1949 State of the Union Address">1949</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1950_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1950 State of the Union Address">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1951 State of the Union Address">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1952 State of the Union Address">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_1953_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="January 1953 State of the Union Address">1953</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Harry_S._Truman" title="List of federal judges appointed by Harry S. Truman">Judicial appointments</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_Supreme_Court_candidates" title="Harry S. Truman Supreme Court candidates">Supreme Court</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherman_Minton_Supreme_Court_nomination" title="Sherman Minton Supreme Court nomination">Sherman Minton Supreme Court nomination</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#Administration_and_cabinet" title="Harry S. Truman">Cabinet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truman_Balcony" title="Truman Balcony">Truman Balcony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buck_passing#"The_buck_stops_here"" title="Buck passing">"The buck stops here"</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Harry_S._Truman/Executive_orders" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Author:Harry S. Truman/Executive orders">Executive Orders</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Harry_S._Truman/Presidential_Proclamations" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Author:Harry S. Truman/Presidential Proclamations">Presidential Proclamations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Presidential transition of Dwight D. Eisenhower">Eisenhower transition</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_Harry_S._Truman_administration" title="Foreign policy of the Harry S. Truman administration">Foreign policy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Truman_Doctrine" title="Truman Doctrine">Truman Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Conference" title="Potsdam Conference">Potsdam Conference</a> <ul><li>1945; <a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Agreement" title="Potsdam Agreement">Agreement on Europe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Declaration" title="Potsdam Declaration">Declaration to Japan</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" title="Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki">Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_Brides_Act" title="War Brides Act">War Brides Act</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alien_Fianc%C3%A9es_and_Fianc%C3%A9s_Act" title="Alien Fiancées and Fiancés Act">Alien Fiancées and Fiancés Act</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luce%E2%80%93Celler_Act" title="Luce–Celler Act">Luce–Celler Act</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_9835" title="Executive Order 9835">Executive Order 9835</a> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Agreement_on_Tariffs_and_Trade" title="General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade">General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade</a> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoover_Commission" title="Hoover Commission">Hoover Commission</a> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Security_Act_of_1947" title="National Security Act of 1947">National Security Act of 1947</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">U.S. Department of Defense</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff" title="Joint Chiefs of Staff">Joint Chiefs of Staff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council" title="United States National Security Council">National Security Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Security_Resources_Board" title="National Security Resources Board">National Security Resources Board</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">Air Force</a>/<a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Air_Force" title="United States Department of the Air Force">Department</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Displaced_Persons_Act" title="Displaced Persons Act">Displaced Persons Act</a> (1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Key_West_Agreement" title="Key West Agreement">Key West Agreement</a> (1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshall_Plan" title="Marshall Plan">Marshall Plan</a> (1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Space_Force_Station" title="Cape Canaveral Space Force Station">Joint Long Range Proving Grounds</a> (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty" title="North Atlantic Treaty">North Atlantic Treaty</a> <ul><li>1949; <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Admirals" title="Revolt of the Admirals">Revolt of the Admirals</a> (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> <ul><li>1950–1953; <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_82" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 82">U.N. Security Council Resolutions 82,</a> <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_83" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 83">83</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950" title="Defense Production Act of 1950">Defense Production Act of 1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Relief_of_Douglas_MacArthur" title="Relief of Douglas MacArthur">Relief of Douglas MacArthur</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Office_of_Defense_Mobilization" title="Office of Defense Mobilization">Office of Defense Mobilization</a> <ul><li>1950; <a href="/wiki/President%27s_Science_Advisory_Committee" title="President's Science Advisory Committee">Science Advisory Committee</a>, 1951</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1952" title="Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952">Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a> (1952)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Fair_Deal" title="Fair Deal">Fair Deal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Medal_of_Freedom_(1945)" title="Medal of Freedom (1945)">Medal of Freedom</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1945" title="Revenue Act of 1945">Revenue Act of 1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Mental_Health_Act" title="National Mental Health Act">National Mental Health Act</a> <ul><li>1946; <a href="/wiki/National_Institute_of_Mental_Health" title="National Institute of Mental Health">National Institute of Mental Health</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atomic_Energy_Act_of_1946" title="Atomic Energy Act of 1946">Atomic Energy Act of 1946</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Atomic_Energy_Commission" title="United States Atomic Energy Commission">U.S. Atomic Energy Commission</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Employment_Act_of_1946" title="Employment Act of 1946">Employment Act of 1946</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Economic_Advisers" title="Council of Economic Advisers">Council of Economic Advisers</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flood_Control_Act" title="Flood Control Act">Flood Control Acts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Flood_Control_Act_of_1946" title="Flood Control Act of 1946">1946</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flood_Control_Act_of_1948" title="Flood Control Act of 1948">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flood_Control_Act_of_1950" title="Flood Control Act of 1950">1950</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulbright_Program" title="Fulbright Program">Fulbright Program</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hill%E2%80%93Burton_Act" title="Hill–Burton Act">Hill–Burton Act</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Reorganization_Act_of_1946" title="Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946">Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Regulation_of_Lobbying_Act_of_1946" title="Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946">Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Tort_Claims_Act" title="Federal Tort Claims Act">Federal Tort Claims Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congressional_Research_Service" title="Congressional Research Service">Legislative Reference Service</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_School_Lunch_Act" title="National School Lunch Act">National School Lunch Act</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/President%27s_Committee_on_Civil_Rights" title="President's Committee on Civil Rights">President's Committee on Civil Rights</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Insecticide,_Fungicide,_and_Rodenticide_Act" title="Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act">Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act</a> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_and_Home_Finance_Agency" title="Housing and Home Finance Agency">Housing and Home Finance Agency</a> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_Succession_Act" title="Presidential Succession Act">Presidential Succession Act of 1947</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act" title="Taft–Hartley Act">Taft–Hartley Act</a> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agricultural_Act_of_1948" title="Agricultural Act of 1948">Agricultural Act of 1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_9981" title="Executive Order 9981">Executive Order 9981</a> (1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1948" title="Revenue Act of 1948">Revenue Act of 1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agricultural_Act_of_1949" title="Agricultural Act of 1949">Agricultural Act of 1949</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_Act_of_1949" title="Housing Act of 1949">Housing Act of 1949</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dingell%E2%80%93Johnson_Act" title="Dingell–Johnson Act">Dingell–Johnson Act</a> (1950)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1950" title="Revenue Act of 1950">Revenue Act of 1950</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Excess_profits_tax" title="Excess profits tax">Excess profits tax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unrelated_Business_Income_Tax" title="Unrelated Business Income Tax">Unrelated Business Income Tax</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1951" title="Revenue Act of 1951">Revenue Act of 1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal-Aid_Highway_Act_of_1952" title="Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952">Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_steel_strike" title="1952 steel strike">1952 steel strike</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Life</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#Early_life_and_career" title="Harry S. Truman">Early life and career</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_Presidential_Library_and_Museum" title="Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum">Presidential Library, Museum, and gravesite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S_Truman_Office_and_Courtroom" title="Harry S Truman Office and Courtroom">Missouri Office and Courtroom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truman_Committee" title="Truman Committee">Truman Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1944_Democratic_Party_vice_presidential_candidate_selection" title="1944 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection">1944 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Homes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S_Truman_Birthplace_State_Historic_Site" title="Harry S Truman Birthplace State Historic Site">Birthplace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_Farm_Home" title="Harry S. Truman Farm Home">Harry S. Truman Farm Home</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_National_Historic_Site" title="Harry S. Truman National Historic Site">Harry S. Truman home and National Historic Site</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_Historic_District" title="Harry S. Truman Historic District">Historic District</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blair_House" title="Blair House">Blair House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_Little_White_House" title="Harry S. Truman Little White House">Truman Little White House</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="Electoral history of Harry S. Truman">Elections</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1934_United_States_Senate_election_in_Missouri" title="1934 United States Senate election in Missouri">United States Senate election in Missouri, 1934</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_Senate_election_in_Missouri" title="1940 United States Senate election in Missouri">1940</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1944_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1944 Democratic National Convention">Democratic National Convention 1944</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1948 Democratic National Convention">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1944_United_States_presidential_election" title="1944 United States presidential election">1944 United States presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_United_States_presidential_election" title="1948 United States presidential election">1948</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_1948_presidential_campaign" title="Harry S. Truman 1948 presidential campaign">campaign</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman" title="Dewey Defeats Truman">Dewey Defeats Truman</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/I%27m_Just_Wild_About_Harry" title="I'm Just Wild About Harry">campaign song</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1952 Democratic Party presidential primaries">1952 Democratic Party presidential primaries</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Legacy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="Bibliography of Harry S. Truman">Bibliography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truman_Day" title="Truman Day">Truman Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S_Truman_Building" title="Harry S Truman Building">Harry S Truman Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truman_Reservoir" title="Truman Reservoir">Truman Dam and Reservoir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_Scholarship" title="Harry S. Truman Scholarship">Harry S. Truman Scholarship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truman_Sports_Complex" title="Truman Sports Complex">Truman Sports Complex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidents_of_the_United_States_on_U.S._postage_stamps#Harry_S._Truman" title="Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps">U.S. Postage stamps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Harry_S._Truman" title="Statue of Harry S. Truman">Statue of Harry S. Truman</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Public image</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Give_%27em_Hell,_Harry!" title="Give 'em Hell, Harry!">Give 'em Hell, Harry!</a> (1975 play and film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Truman_(song)" title="Harry Truman (song)">Harry Truman</a> (1975 song by <a href="/wiki/Chicago_(band)" title="Chicago (band)">Chicago</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collision_Course:_Truman_vs._MacArthur" title="Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur">Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur</a> (1976 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Backstairs_at_the_White_House" title="Backstairs at the White House">Backstairs at the White House</a> (1979 miniseries)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truman_(1995_film)" title="Truman (1995 film)">Truman</a> (1995 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truman_(1997_film)" title="Truman (1997 film)">Truman</a> (1997 documentary film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_First_Lady_(American_TV_series)" title="The First Lady (American TV series)">The First Lady</a> (2022 TV series)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film)" title="Oppenheimer (film)">Oppenheimer</a> (2023 film)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Family</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bess_Truman" title="Bess Truman">Bess Wallace Truman</a> (wife)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Truman" title="Margaret Truman">Margaret Truman</a> (daughter)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martha_Ellen_Young_Truman" class="mw-redirect" title="Martha Ellen Young Truman">Martha Ellen Young Truman</a> (mother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clifton_Truman_Daniel" title="Clifton Truman Daniel">Clifton Truman Daniel</a> (grandson)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. 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Polk">James K. Polk</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_James_K._Polk" title="Presidency of James K. Polk">1845–1849</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zachary_Taylor" title="Zachary Taylor">Zachary Taylor</a> (<a href="/wiki/Zachary_Taylor#Presidency_(1849–1850)" title="Zachary Taylor">1849–1850</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Millard_Fillmore" title="Millard Fillmore">Millard Fillmore</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Millard_Fillmore" title="Presidency of Millard Fillmore">1850–1853</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Pierce" title="Franklin Pierce">Franklin Pierce</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Franklin_Pierce" title="Presidency of Franklin Pierce">1853–1857</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Buchanan" title="James Buchanan">James Buchanan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_James_Buchanan" title="Presidency of James Buchanan">1857–1861</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Abraham_Lincoln" title="Presidency of Abraham Lincoln">1861–1865</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Johnson" title="Andrew Johnson">Andrew Johnson</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Andrew_Johnson" title="Presidency of Andrew Johnson">1865–1869</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant">1869–1877</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes" title="Rutherford B. Hayes">Rutherford B. Hayes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Rutherford_B._Hayes" title="Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes">1877–1881</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_A._Garfield" title="James A. Garfield">James A. Garfield</a> (<a href="/wiki/James_A._Garfield#Presidency_(1881)" title="James A. Garfield">1881</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chester_A._Arthur" title="Chester A. Arthur">Chester A. Arthur</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Chester_A._Arthur" title="Presidency of Chester A. Arthur">1881–1885</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland">Grover Cleveland</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidencies_of_Grover_Cleveland#First_presidency_(1885–1889)" title="Presidencies of Grover Cleveland">1885–1889</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison" title="Benjamin Harrison">Benjamin Harrison</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Benjamin_Harrison" title="Presidency of Benjamin Harrison">1889–1893</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland">Grover Cleveland</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidencies_of_Grover_Cleveland#Second_presidency_(1893–1897)" title="Presidencies of Grover Cleveland">1893–1897</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_McKinley" title="William McKinley">William McKinley</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_William_McKinley" title="Presidency of William McKinley">1897–1901</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt">1901–1909</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Howard_Taft" title="William Howard Taft">William Howard Taft</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_William_Howard_Taft" title="Presidency of William Howard Taft">1909–1913</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Woodrow_Wilson" title="Presidency of Woodrow Wilson">1913–1921</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_G._Harding" title="Warren G. Harding">Warren G. Harding</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Warren_G._Harding" title="Presidency of Warren G. Harding">1921–1923</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Calvin Coolidge</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Calvin_Coolidge" title="Presidency of Calvin Coolidge">1923–1929</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" title="Herbert Hoover">Herbert Hoover</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Herbert_Hoover" title="Presidency of Herbert Hoover">1929–1933</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt">1933–1945</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman">Harry S. Truman</a> (<a class="mw-selflink selflink">1945–1953</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. 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Bush">1989–1993</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Bill_Clinton" title="Presidency of Bill Clinton">1993–2001</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W._Bush" title="Presidency of George W. Bush">2001–2009</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Barack_Obama" title="Presidency of Barack Obama">2009–2017</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> (<a href="/wiki/First_presidency_of_Donald_Trump" title="First presidency of Donald Trump">2017–2021</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Joe_Biden" title="Presidency of Joe Biden">2021–present</a>)</li></ol> </div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Presidency timelines</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_George_Washington_presidency" title="Timeline of the George Washington presidency">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_William_McKinley_presidency" title="Timeline of the William McKinley presidency">McKinley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Theodore_Roosevelt_presidency" title="Timeline of the Theodore Roosevelt presidency">T. 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Calhoun">Calhoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1832_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1832 Democratic National Convention">1832 (Baltimore)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson" title="Andrew Jackson">Jackson</a>/<a href="/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren" title="Martin Van Buren">Van Buren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1835_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1835 Democratic National Convention">1835 (Baltimore)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren" title="Martin Van Buren">Van Buren</a>/<a href="/wiki/Richard_Mentor_Johnson" title="Richard Mentor Johnson">R. Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1840_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1840 Democratic National Convention">1840 (Baltimore)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren" title="Martin Van Buren">Van Buren</a>/None</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1844_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1844 Democratic National Convention">1844 (Baltimore)</a>: <a href="/wiki/James_K._Polk" title="James K. Polk">Polk</a>/<a href="/wiki/George_M._Dallas" title="George M. Dallas">Dallas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1848_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1848 Democratic National Convention">1848 (Baltimore)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Cass" title="Lewis Cass">Cass</a>/<a href="/wiki/William_Orlando_Butler" class="mw-redirect" title="William Orlando Butler">Butler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1852_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1852 Democratic National Convention">1852 (Baltimore)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Pierce" title="Franklin Pierce">Pierce</a>/<a href="/wiki/William_R._King" title="William R. King">King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1856_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1856 Democratic National Convention">1856 (Cincinnati)</a>: <a href="/wiki/James_Buchanan" title="James Buchanan">Buchanan</a>/<a href="/wiki/John_C._Breckinridge" title="John C. Breckinridge">Breckinridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1860_Democratic_National_Conventions" title="1860 Democratic National Conventions">1860 (Charleston/Baltimore)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Stephen_A._Douglas" title="Stephen A. Douglas">Douglas</a>/<a href="/wiki/Herschel_V._Johnson" title="Herschel V. Johnson">H. Johnson</a> (<a href="/wiki/John_C._Breckinridge" title="John C. Breckinridge">Breckinridge</a>/<a href="/wiki/Joseph_Lane" title="Joseph Lane">Lane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southern_Democrats" title="Southern Democrats">SD</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1864 Democratic National Convention">1864 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/George_B._McClellan" title="George B. McClellan">McClellan</a>/<a href="/wiki/George_H._Pendleton" title="George H. Pendleton">Pendleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1868 Democratic National Convention">1868 (New York)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Horatio_Seymour" title="Horatio Seymour">Seymour</a>/<a href="/wiki/Francis_Preston_Blair_Jr." title="Francis Preston Blair Jr.">Blair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1872 Democratic National Convention">1872 (Baltimore)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Horace_Greeley" title="Horace Greeley">Greeley</a>/<a href="/wiki/B._Gratz_Brown" title="B. Gratz Brown">Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1876 Democratic National Convention">1876 (Saint Louis)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Samuel_J._Tilden" title="Samuel J. Tilden">Tilden</a>/<a href="/wiki/Thomas_A._Hendricks" title="Thomas A. Hendricks">Hendricks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1880_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1880 Democratic National Convention">1880 (Cincinnati)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Winfield_Scott_Hancock" title="Winfield Scott Hancock">Hancock</a>/<a href="/wiki/William_Hayden_English" title="William Hayden English">English</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1884_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1884 Democratic National Convention">1884 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland">Cleveland</a>/<a href="/wiki/Thomas_A._Hendricks" title="Thomas A. Hendricks">Hendricks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1888_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1888 Democratic National Convention">1888 (Saint Louis)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland">Cleveland</a>/<a href="/wiki/Allen_G._Thurman" title="Allen G. Thurman">Thurman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1892_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1892 Democratic National Convention">1892 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland">Cleveland</a>/<a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_I" title="Adlai Stevenson I">Stevenson I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1896_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1896 Democratic National Convention">1896 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan" title="William Jennings Bryan">W. Bryan</a>/<a href="/wiki/Arthur_Sewall" title="Arthur Sewall">Sewall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1900_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1900 Democratic National Convention">1900 (Kansas City)</a>: <a href="/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan" title="William Jennings Bryan">W. Bryan</a>/<a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_I" title="Adlai Stevenson I">Stevenson I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1904_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1904 Democratic National Convention">1904 (Saint Louis)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Alton_B._Parker" title="Alton B. Parker">Parker</a>/<a href="/wiki/Henry_G._Davis" title="Henry G. Davis">H. Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1908 Democratic National Convention">1908 (Denver)</a>: <a href="/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan" title="William Jennings Bryan">W. Bryan</a>/<a href="/wiki/John_W._Kern" title="John W. Kern">Kern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1912_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1912 Democratic National Convention">1912 (Baltimore)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Wilson</a>/<a href="/wiki/Thomas_R._Marshall" title="Thomas R. Marshall">Marshall</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1912_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1912 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1916_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1916 Democratic National Convention">1916 (Saint Louis)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Wilson</a>/<a href="/wiki/Thomas_R._Marshall" title="Thomas R. Marshall">Marshall</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1916_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1916 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1920_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1920 Democratic National Convention">1920 (San Francisco)</a>: <a href="/wiki/James_M._Cox" title="James M. Cox">Cox</a>/<a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1920_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1920 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1924_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1924 Democratic National Convention">1924 (New York)</a>: <a href="/wiki/John_W._Davis" title="John W. Davis">J. Davis</a>/<a href="/wiki/Charles_W._Bryan" title="Charles W. Bryan">C. Bryan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1924_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1924 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1928_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1928 Democratic National Convention">1928 (Houston)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Al_Smith" title="Al Smith">Smith</a>/<a href="/wiki/Joseph_T._Robinson" title="Joseph T. Robinson">Robinson</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1928_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1928 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1932_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1932 Democratic National Convention">1932 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a>/<a href="/wiki/John_Nance_Garner" title="John Nance Garner">Garner</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1932_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1932 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1936_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1936 Democratic National Convention">1936 (Philadelphia)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a>/<a href="/wiki/John_Nance_Garner" title="John Nance Garner">Garner</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1936_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1936 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1940_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1940 Democratic National Convention">1940 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a>/<a href="/wiki/Henry_A._Wallace" title="Henry A. Wallace">Wallace</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1940_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1940 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1944_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1944 Democratic National Convention">1944 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a>/<a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman">Truman</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1944_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1944 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1948 Democratic National Convention">1948 (Philadelphia)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman">Truman</a>/<a href="/wiki/Alben_W._Barkley" title="Alben W. Barkley">Barkley</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1948_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1948 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1952 Democratic National Convention">1952 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II" title="Adlai Stevenson II">Stevenson II</a>/<a href="/wiki/John_Sparkman" title="John Sparkman">Sparkman</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1952_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1952 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1956 Democratic National Convention">1956 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II" title="Adlai Stevenson II">Stevenson II</a>/<a href="/wiki/Estes_Kefauver" title="Estes Kefauver">Kefauver</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1956_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1956 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1960 Democratic National Convention">1960 (Los Angeles)</a>: <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">Kennedy</a>/<a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">L. Johnson</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1960_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1960 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1964 Democratic National Convention">1964 (Atlantic City)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">L. Johnson</a>/<a href="/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey" title="Hubert Humphrey">Humphrey</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1964_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1964 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1968 Democratic National Convention">1968 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey" title="Hubert Humphrey">Humphrey</a>/<a href="/wiki/Edmund_Muskie" title="Edmund Muskie">Muskie</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1968_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1972 Democratic National Convention">1972 (Miami Beach)</a>: <a href="/wiki/George_McGovern" title="George McGovern">McGovern</a>/(<a href="/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton" title="Thomas Eagleton">Eagleton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sargent_Shriver" title="Sargent Shriver">Shriver</a>) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1972_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1976 Democratic National Convention">1976 (New York)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Carter</a>/<a href="/wiki/Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale">Mondale</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1976_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1976 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1980 Democratic National Convention">1980 (New York)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Carter</a>/<a href="/wiki/Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale">Mondale</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1980_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1980 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1984 Democratic National Convention">1984 (San Francisco)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale">Mondale</a>/<a href="/wiki/Geraldine_Ferraro" title="Geraldine Ferraro">Ferraro</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1984_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1984 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1988 Democratic National Convention">1988 (Atlanta)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Dukakis" title="Michael Dukakis">Dukakis</a>/<a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Bentsen" title="Lloyd Bentsen">Bentsen</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1988_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1988 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1992 Democratic National Convention">1992 (New York)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">B. Clinton</a>/<a href="/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore">Gore</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1992_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1992 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1996 Democratic National Convention">1996 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">B. Clinton</a>/<a href="/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore">Gore</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1996_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1996 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Democratic_National_Convention" title="2000 Democratic National Convention">2000 (Los Angeles)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore">Gore</a>/<a href="/wiki/Joe_Lieberman" title="Joe Lieberman">Lieberman</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2000_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2000 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_Democratic_National_Convention" title="2004 Democratic National Convention">2004 (Boston)</a>: <a href="/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry">Kerry</a>/<a href="/wiki/John_Edwards" title="John Edwards">Edwards</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2004_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2004 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Democratic_National_Convention" title="2008 Democratic National Convention">2008 (Denver)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Obama</a>/<a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Biden</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2008_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Democratic_National_Convention" title="2012 Democratic National Convention">2012 (Charlotte)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Obama</a>/<a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Biden</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2012_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2012 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Convention" title="2016 Democratic National Convention">2016 (Philadelphia)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">H. Clinton</a>/<a href="/wiki/Tim_Kaine" title="Tim Kaine">Kaine</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2016_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Democratic_National_Convention" title="2020 Democratic National Convention">2020 (Milwaukee/other locations)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Biden</a>/<a href="/wiki/Kamala_Harris" title="Kamala Harris">Harris</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Democratic_National_Convention" title="2024 Democratic National Convention">2024 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Kamala_Harris" title="Kamala Harris">Harris</a>/<a href="/wiki/Tim_Walz" title="Tim Walz">Walz</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2024_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#B0CEFF;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States" title="List of presidents of the United States">Presidential</a> <a href="/wiki/Administration_(government)" title="Administration (government)">administrations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Andrew_Jackson" title="Presidency of Andrew Jackson">Jackson</a> (1829–1837)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Martin_Van_Buren" title="Presidency of Martin Van Buren">Van Buren</a> (1837–1841)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_James_K._Polk" title="Presidency of James K. Polk">Polk</a> (1845–1849)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Franklin_Pierce" title="Presidency of Franklin Pierce">Pierce</a> (1853–1857)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_James_Buchanan" title="Presidency of James Buchanan">Buchanan</a> (1857–1861)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Andrew_Johnson" title="Presidency of Andrew Johnson">A. Johnson</a> (1868–1869)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidencies_of_Grover_Cleveland" title="Presidencies of Grover Cleveland">Cleveland</a> (1885–1889; 1893–1897)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Woodrow_Wilson" title="Presidency of Woodrow Wilson">Wilson</a> (1913–1921)</li> <li>Roosevelt (<a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt,_first_and_second_terms" title="Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, first and second terms">1933–1941</a>; <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt,_third_and_fourth_terms" title="Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, third and fourth terms">1941–1945</a>)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Truman</a> (1945–1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_John_F._Kennedy" title="Presidency of John F. Kennedy">Kennedy</a> (1961–1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson">L. B. Johnson</a> (1963–1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Jimmy_Carter" title="Presidency of Jimmy Carter">Carter</a> (1977–1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Bill_Clinton" title="Presidency of Bill Clinton">Clinton</a> (1993–2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Barack_Obama" title="Presidency of Barack Obama">Obama</a> (2009–2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Joe_Biden" title="Presidency of Joe Biden">Biden</a> (2021–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#B0CEFF;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives">U.S. House leaders</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_speakers_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="List of speakers of the United States House of Representatives">Speakers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/House_Democratic_Caucus" title="House Democratic Caucus">Caucus chairs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Stevenson" title="Andrew Stevenson">A. Stevenson</a> (1827–1834)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bell_(Tennessee_politician)" title="John Bell (Tennessee politician)">Bell</a> (1834–1835)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_K._Polk" title="James K. Polk">Polk</a> (1835–1839)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Winston_Jones" title="John Winston Jones">J. W. Jones</a> (1843–1845)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wesley_Davis" title="John Wesley Davis">Davis</a> (1845–1847)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howell_Cobb" title="Howell Cobb">Cobb</a> (1849–1851)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linn_Boyd" title="Linn Boyd">Boyd</a> (1851–1855)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_Jones_(Tennessee_politician)" title="George Washington Jones (Tennessee politician)">G. W. Jones</a> (1855–1857)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Lawrence_Orr" title="James Lawrence Orr">Orr</a> (1857–1859)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_S._Houston" title="George S. Houston">Houston</a> (1859–1861)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_E._Niblack" title="William E. Niblack">Niblack</a>/<a href="/wiki/Samuel_J._Randall" title="Samuel J. Randall">Randall</a> (1869–1871)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_E._Niblack" title="William E. Niblack">Niblack</a> (1873–1875)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_C._Kerr" title="Michael C. Kerr">Kerr</a> (1875–1876)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_J._Randall" title="Samuel J. Randall">Randall</a> (1876–1881)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_G._Carlisle" title="John G. Carlisle">Carlisle</a> (1883–1889)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_S._Holman" title="William S. Holman">Holman</a> (1889–1891)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Frederick_Crisp" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Frederick Crisp">Crisp</a> (1891–1895)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_B._Culberson" title="David B. Culberson">D. B. Culberson</a> (1895–1897)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_D._Richardson" title="James D. Richardson">Richardson</a> (1897–1903)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Sharp_Williams" title="John Sharp Williams">Williams</a> (1903–1909)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Champ_Clark" title="Champ Clark">Clark</a> (1909–1921)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Kitchin" title="Claude Kitchin">Kitchin</a> (1921–1923)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finis_J._Garrett" title="Finis J. Garrett">Garrett</a> (1923–1929)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Nance_Garner" title="John Nance Garner">Garner</a> (1929–1933)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Thomas_Rainey" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Thomas Rainey">Rainey</a> (1933–1934)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jo_Byrns" title="Jo Byrns">Byrns</a> (1935–1936)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_B._Bankhead" title="William B. Bankhead">Bankhead</a> (1936–1940)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Rayburn" title="Sam Rayburn">Rayburn</a> (1940–1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_W._McCormack" title="John W. McCormack">McCormack</a> (1962–1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Albert" title="Carl Albert">Albert</a> (1971–1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tip_O%27Neill" title="Tip O'Neill">O'Neill</a> (1977–1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Wright" title="Jim Wright">Wright</a> (1987–1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Foley" title="Tom Foley">Foley</a> (1989–1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Gephardt" title="Dick Gephardt">Gephardt</a> (1995–2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Pelosi</a> (2003–2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hakeem_Jeffries" title="Hakeem Jeffries">Jeffries</a> (2023–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#B0CEFF;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="Party leaders of the United States Senate">U.S. Senate leaders</a> and <a href="/wiki/Senate_Democratic_Caucus" title="Senate Democratic Caucus">Caucus chairs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_W._Stevenson" title="John W. Stevenson">J. W. Stevenson</a> (1873–1877)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_A._Wallace" title="William A. Wallace">Wallace</a> (1877–1881)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_H._Pendleton" title="George H. Pendleton">Pendleton</a> (1881–1885)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_B._Beck" title="James B. Beck">Beck</a> (1885–1890)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_P._Gorman" title="Arthur P. Gorman">Gorman</a> (1890–1898)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Turpie" title="David Turpie">Turpie</a> (1898–1899)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_K._Jones" title="James K. Jones">J. K. Jones</a> (1899–1903)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_P._Gorman" title="Arthur P. Gorman">Gorman</a> (1903–1906)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._C._S._Blackburn" title="J. C. S. Blackburn">Blackburn</a> (1906–1907)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_A._Culberson" title="Charles A. Culberson">C. A. Culberson</a> (1907–1909)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hernando_Money" title="Hernando Money">Money</a> (1909–1911)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_S._Martin" title="Thomas S. Martin">Martin</a> (1911–1913)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_W._Kern" title="John W. Kern">Kern</a> (1913–1917)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_S._Martin" title="Thomas S. Martin">Martin</a> (1917–1919)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Hitchcock" title="Gilbert Hitchcock">Hitchcock</a> (1919–1920)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Underwood" title="Oscar Underwood">Underwood</a> (1920–1923)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_T._Robinson" title="Joseph T. Robinson">Robinson</a> (1923–1937)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alben_W._Barkley" title="Alben W. Barkley">Barkley</a> (1937–1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_W._Lucas" title="Scott W. Lucas">Lucas</a> (1949–1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_McFarland" title="Ernest McFarland">McFarland</a> (1951–1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Johnson</a> (1953–1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Mansfield" title="Mike Mansfield">Mansfield</a> (1961–1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Byrd" title="Robert Byrd">Byrd</a> (1977–1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_J._Mitchell" title="George J. Mitchell">Mitchell</a> (1989–1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Daschle" title="Tom Daschle">Daschle</a> (1995–2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Reid</a> (2005–2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Schumer" title="Chuck Schumer">Schumer</a> (2017–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#B0CEFF;;width:1%">Chairs of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee" title="Democratic National Committee">DNC</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_F._Hallett" title="Benjamin F. Hallett">Hallett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Milligan_McLane" title="Robert Milligan McLane">McLane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Allen_Smalley" title="David Allen Smalley">Smalley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_Belmont" title="August Belmont">Belmont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augustus_Schell" title="Augustus Schell">Schell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abram_Hewitt" title="Abram Hewitt">Hewitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Barnum" title="William Barnum">Barnum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calvin_S._Brice" title="Calvin S. Brice">Brice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_F._Harrity" title="William F. Harrity">Harrity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_K._Jones" title="James K. Jones">Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Taggart" title="Thomas Taggart">Taggart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_E._Mack" title="Norman E. Mack">Mack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_F._McCombs" title="William F. McCombs">McCombs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vance_C._McCormick" title="Vance C. McCormick">McCormick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homer_Stille_Cummings" title="Homer Stille Cummings">Cummings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_White_(Ohio_politician)" title="George White (Ohio politician)">White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cordell_Hull" title="Cordell Hull">Hull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clem_L._Shaver" title="Clem L. Shaver">Shaver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_J._Raskob" title="John J. Raskob">Raskob</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Farley" title="James Farley">Farley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_J._Flynn" title="Edward J. Flynn">Flynn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_C._Walker" title="Frank C. Walker">Walker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Hannegan" title="Robert E. Hannegan">Hannegan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Howard_McGrath" title="J. Howard McGrath">McGrath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_M._Boyle" title="William M. Boyle">Boyle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_E._McKinney" title="Frank E. McKinney">McKinney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_A._Mitchell_(politician)" title="Stephen A. Mitchell (politician)">Mitchell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Butler_(lawyer)" title="Paul Butler (lawyer)">Butler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_M._Jackson" title="Henry M. Jackson">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Moran_Bailey" title="John Moran Bailey">Bailey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_O%27Brien" title="Larry O'Brien">O'Brien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_R._Harris" title="Fred R. Harris">Harris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_O%27Brien" title="Larry O'Brien">O'Brien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Westwood_(politician)" title="Jean Westwood (politician)">Westwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_S._Strauss" title="Robert S. Strauss">Strauss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_M._Curtis" title="Kenneth M. Curtis">Curtis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Coyle_White" title="John Coyle White">White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Manatt" title="Charles Manatt">Manatt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_G._Kirk" title="Paul G. Kirk">Kirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ron_Brown" title="Ron Brown">Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Wilhelm" title="David Wilhelm">Wilhelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debra_DeLee" title="Debra DeLee">DeLee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Dodd" title="Chris Dodd">Dodd</a>/<a href="/wiki/Donald_Fowler" title="Donald Fowler">Fowler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Romer" title="Roy Romer">Romer</a>/<a href="/wiki/Steven_Grossman_(politician)" title="Steven Grossman (politician)">Grossman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Rendell" title="Ed Rendell">Rendell</a>/<a href="/wiki/Joe_Andrew" title="Joe Andrew">Andrew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terry_McAuliffe" title="Terry McAuliffe">McAuliffe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Dean" title="Howard Dean">Dean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Kaine" title="Tim Kaine">Kaine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debbie_Wasserman_Schultz" title="Debbie Wasserman Schultz">Wasserman Schultz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Perez" title="Tom Perez">Perez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaime_Harrison" title="Jaime Harrison">Harrison</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#B0CEFF;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_state_parties_of_the_Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="List of state parties of the Democratic Party (United States)">State and territorial parties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alabama_Democratic_Party" title="Alabama Democratic Party">Alabama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alaska_Democratic_Party" title="Alaska Democratic Party">Alaska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arizona_Democratic_Party" title="Arizona Democratic Party">Arizona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Arkansas" title="Democratic Party of Arkansas">Arkansas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_Democratic_Party" title="California Democratic Party">California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_Democratic_Party" title="Colorado Democratic Party">Colorado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Connecticut" title="Democratic Party of Connecticut">Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delaware_Democratic_Party" title="Delaware Democratic Party">Delaware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Florida_Democratic_Party" title="Florida Democratic Party">Florida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Georgia" title="Democratic Party of Georgia">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Hawaii" title="Democratic Party of Hawaii">Hawaii</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idaho_Democratic_Party" title="Idaho Democratic Party">Idaho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Illinois" title="Democratic Party of Illinois">Illinois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Democratic_Party" title="Indiana Democratic Party">Indiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iowa_Democratic_Party" title="Iowa Democratic Party">Iowa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kansas_Democratic_Party" title="Kansas Democratic Party">Kansas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Democratic_Party" title="Kentucky Democratic Party">Kentucky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisiana_Democratic_Party" title="Louisiana Democratic Party">Louisiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maine_Democratic_Party" title="Maine Democratic Party">Maine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maryland_Democratic_Party" title="Maryland Democratic Party">Maryland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Democratic_Party" title="Massachusetts Democratic Party">Massachusetts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michigan_Democratic_Party" title="Michigan Democratic Party">Michigan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Democratic%E2%80%93Farmer%E2%80%93Labor_Party" title="Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party">Minnesota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Democratic_Party" title="Mississippi Democratic Party">Mississippi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Missouri_Democratic_Party" title="Missouri Democratic Party">Missouri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montana_Democratic_Party" title="Montana Democratic Party">Montana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebraska_Democratic_Party" title="Nebraska Democratic Party">Nebraska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nevada_Democratic_Party" title="Nevada Democratic Party">Nevada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_Democratic_Party" title="New Hampshire Democratic Party">New Hampshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Democratic_State_Committee" title="New Jersey Democratic State Committee">New Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_New_Mexico" title="Democratic Party of New Mexico">New Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Democratic_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State Democratic Committee">New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_Democratic_Party" title="North Carolina Democratic Party">North Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Dakota_Democratic%E2%80%93Nonpartisan_League_Party" title="North Dakota Democratic–Nonpartisan League Party">North Dakota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ohio_Democratic_Party" title="Ohio Democratic Party">Ohio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Democratic_Party" title="Oklahoma Democratic Party">Oklahoma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Oregon" title="Democratic Party of Oregon">Oregon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Democratic_Party" title="Pennsylvania Democratic Party">Pennsylvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island_Democratic_Party" title="Rhode Island Democratic Party">Rhode Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_Democratic_Party" title="South Carolina Democratic Party">South Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Dakota_Democratic_Party" title="South Dakota Democratic Party">South Dakota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Democratic_Party" title="Tennessee Democratic Party">Tennessee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Democratic_Party" title="Texas Democratic Party">Texas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utah_Democratic_Party" title="Utah Democratic Party">Utah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vermont_Democratic_Party" title="Vermont Democratic Party">Vermont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Virginia" title="Democratic Party of Virginia">Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_State_Democratic_Party" title="Washington State Democratic Party">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Virginia_Democratic_Party" title="West Virginia Democratic Party">West Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Wisconsin" title="Democratic Party of Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wyoming_Democratic_Party" title="Wyoming Democratic Party">Wyoming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Samoa_Democratic_Party" title="American Samoa Democratic Party">American Samoa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Democratic_State_Committee" title="District of Columbia Democratic State Committee">District of Columbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Guam" title="Democratic Party of Guam">Guam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Northern_Mariana_Islands)" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Party (Northern Mariana Islands)">Northern Mariana Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Puerto_Rico)" title="Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)">Puerto Rico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_the_Virgin_Islands" title="Democratic Party of the Virgin Islands">Virgin Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democrats_Abroad" title="Democrats Abroad">Democrats Abroad</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#B0CEFF;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)_organizations" title="Democratic Party (United States) organizations">Affiliated groups</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#B0CEFF;;width:1%">Congress</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Senate_Democratic_Caucus" title="Senate Democratic Caucus">Senate Caucus</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Democratic_Policy_Committee" title="United States Senate Democratic Policy Committee">Policy Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Democratic_Steering_and_Outreach_Committee" title="United States Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee">Steering and Outreach Committee</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_Democratic_Caucus" title="House Democratic Caucus">House Caucus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Factions_in_the_Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Factions in the Democratic Party (United States)">Factions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition" title="Blue Dog Coalition">Blue Dog Coalition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus" title="Congressional Progressive Caucus">Congressional Progressive Caucus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justice_Democrats" title="Justice Democrats">Justice Democrats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Democrat_Coalition" title="New Democrat Coalition">New Democrat Coalition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Problem_Solvers_Caucus" title="Problem Solvers Caucus">Problem Solvers Caucus</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#B0CEFF;;width:1%">Fundraising</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Attorneys_General_Association" title="Democratic Attorneys General Association">Democratic Attorneys General Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Congressional_Campaign_Committee" title="Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee">Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Governors_Association" title="Democratic Governors Association">Democratic Governors Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Legislative_Campaign_Committee" title="Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee">Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Senatorial_Campaign_Committee" title="Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee">Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Conference_of_Democratic_Mayors" title="National Conference of Democratic Mayors">National Conference of Democratic Mayors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Democratic_Redistricting_Committee" title="National Democratic Redistricting Committee">National Democratic Redistricting Committee</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#B0CEFF;;width:1%">Sectional</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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