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#1 Harry S. Truman was the president of the United States from 1945 to 1953. He was elected to the Senate in 1922, and in 1934 he was elected to the position of presiding judge of Jackson County, Missouri, due to the patronage of Tom Pendergast, the corrupt boss of Kansas City’s Democratic machine.
#2 On May 4, military leaders from the United States, the USSR, Britain, and France met in Berlin to begin the process of occupying Germany, which was to be sliced into occupation zones, one for each of those four nations.
#3 On July 6, Truman left the White House by car and headed for the ship passage to the Potsdam Conference in Soviet-occupied Germany. His approval rating in the United States was 87 percent.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	20 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669355007
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Harry S. Truman was the president of the United States from 1945 to 1953. He was elected to the Senate in 1922, and in 1934 he was elected to the position of presiding judge of Jackson County, Missouri, due to the patronage of Tom Pendergast, the corrupt boss of Kansas City’s Democratic machine.

#2

On May 4, military leaders from the United States, the USSR, Britain, and France met in Berlin to begin the process of occupying Germany, which was to be sliced into occupation zones, one for each of those four nations.

#3

On July 6, Truman left the White House by car and headed for the ship passage to the Potsdam Conference in Soviet-occupied Germany. His approval rating in the United States was 87 percent.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

On April 12, 1945, the day the whole weight of the moon and the stars fell on Harry Truman, began as a normal day for the vice president. He woke up at sunrise, and did not just get up at the crack of dawn. He was a man who suffered loneliness with intensity, so he enjoyed waking up next to his wife.

#2

Truman had walked the Senate Office Building’s hallways for nearly a decade now. The building’s striking symbols of power were commonplace to his eye: the Corinthian rotunda with its coffered dome, the nearby twin marble staircases that led to the Caucus Room.

#3

Truman had almost nothing to do as vice president. He had to attend to his duties as president of the Senate, which usually consisted of cracking his gavel to signal the recess. He had only voted against a bill amendment once, two days earlier.

#4

On April 12, the American media was given access to the Ohrdruf death camp, which was the first concentration camp liberated by the Allies. The visuals and testimonies of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering that they left Eisenhower a bit sick.

#5

The war was raging on Okinawa, a Pacific atoll less than half the size of Rhode Island. On April 12, Curtis LeMay was preparing to unleash a mission of B-29s over mainland Japan, to strike the heart of Tokyo with incendiary bombs.

#6

In Washington, DC, on April 12, armies of workers were shuffling through the offices of innumerable federal buildings, fighting their own private wars. The city had changed vastly during the war years.

#7

Harry Truman was the vice president of America in 1944. He was chosen for the position by Roosevelt, who hardly knew him. Truman had served commanding troops in the field in Europe during World War I.

#8

Truman was vice president for just 82 days before becoming president, and he was terrified by what he saw. He knew that he would be the president of the United States, and it scared him.

#9

On April 12, Truman entered the Senate Chamber and began writing a letter to his mother and sister. He was presiding over the Senate while a windy senator from Wisconsin was making a speech on a subject he was not familiar with.

#10

On April 12, Franklin Roosevelt was lying in bed with a breakfast tray when he heard loud laughter outside his bedroom door. It was his maid Lizzie McDuffie, who wanted to know if he believed in reincarnation. He replied that he didn’t know if he did or not, but if there was such a thing, he wanted to be a canary bird when he returned to Earth.

#11

Roosevelt suffered from hypertension, heart disease, and sinus pain. He was losing weight alarmingly. On the night before his chat with Lizzie, he had dined with Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau in the Little White House.

#12

As allies, the United States and the Soviet Union had very different political ideologies. The relationship between the two countries was extremely complex.

#13

In April 1945, just after the last meeting of the Big Three, Roosevelt had been optimistic about Stalin. But the new ambassador to the Soviet Union, Averell Harriman, began to raise red flags in his Washington communiqués. The mood in Moscow had shifted suddenly and darkly.

#14

The Soviet Union’s domination of eastern European countries threatened the very ideology that American and British soldiers had fought and died for during the Second World War.

#15

The turning of events between the Soviet Union and the United States was swift. Two months earlier, at the end of the Yalta Conference, America felt a glow of optimism regarding US-Soviet relations, but two months later, all that had changed.

#16

As he signed documents, Hassett spread them out on a table so the ink would dry. Roosevelt’s transportation secretary, Dewey Long, appeared, attempting to get the president’s attention regarding travel logistics for an upcoming conference in San Francisco.

#17

Outside Roosevelt’s little white house, secret service agents spotted the car of Dr. Howard Bruenn, the president’s physician on call in Warm Springs, as it skidded to a stop. Bruenn rushed into the cottage and found Roosevelt unconscious in his bedroom.

#18

When Roosevelt died, Truman was presiding over the Senate. He was called to the White House and told to come immediately, using the main Pennsylvania Avenue entrance. He made it to the Senate building quickly and out of breath.

#19

When Truman arrived at the White House, he was informed that the president had died. He was the president now. He asked if there was anything he could do for them, and Eleanor Roosevelt answered that he was in trouble.

#20

When the news of Roosevelt’s death reached the White House, Stettinius was the first cabinet member to arrive. He advised that the rest of the president’s cabinet be summoned to the White House immediately.

#21

The news of Roosevelt’s death was announced to the press by Early, the White House press secretary. Time ceased to mean anything, according to assistant press secretary Eben Ayers.

#22

When Margaret Truman answered the phone that night, it was her father, Harry, who told her that President Roosevelt had died. She had never wanted this for her husband or family, but it had happened nonetheless.

#23

After 6 p. m. , Truman walked to the Cabinet Room, where the cabinet officers were gathering. He called the meeting to order and said that he would be carrying on President Roosevelt’s legacy.

#24

The presidential oath was written in article 2, section 1 of the Constitution. It was recited by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Harlan F. Stone, and the new president would assume his duties. Truman was bewildered by his new position, and asked Stettinius if it was appropriate for a photographer to capture the moment when he took the oath.

#25

At 7:08 p. m. , Truman took the oath of office as president of the United States, pronouncing those thirty-five words so help you God. He kissed the Bible, then turned to Bess and Margaret and kissed them both.

#26

When Truman heard the traditional reception clerk’s bark, The President has left his office, he realized that the country would have a response to the death of a man whom they all practically worshiped.

#27

Around the world, leaders and citizens alike attempted to digest the news of FDR’s death. In Moscow, Ambassador Harriman phoned Stalin’s second in command, Vyacheslav Molotov, at 1 a. m.

#28

At the same time, news of Roosevelt’s death spread around a secret lab in New Mexico called Los Alamos. The chief scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, made a formal announcement of the death of Franklin Roosevelt. He feared that Truman would not be a good carpenter.

#29

When Truman arrived at his apartment that night, his wife was sobbing in bed beside him. He tried to comfort her, but there was little chance of that. He went back to sleep, knowing that when he awoke, millions all over the world would be asking a single question: Who the hell is Harry Truman.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

Harry Truman was born in 1884 in Missouri. He grew up on a farm with his siblings, and was taught the importance of honor and work by his father.

#2

When Harry was six, his parents moved to Independence, Missouri, a different world that was full of saloons and businesses. His mother took him to a new church school, where he saw the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. Her name was Elizabeth Bess Wallace.

#3

Harry was not popular, and he was blind without his glasses. He was always afraid of getting into a fight, so he always ran away if there was any danger of that. He eventually said hello to Bess Wallace, and they spent the rest of their lives together.

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