Having been vice president for only 82 days, Harry S Truman became the 33rd US president on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s death ...

To Mark Adams, a particular item on display at the Truman Presidential Library and a snippet from the presidential oath of office administered at the White House on April 12, 1945, help show the ...

The President only hoped. He still improvised. The best and the worst that could be said of his foreign policy now was that it was characteristic of him—Harry Truman hates to be pushed around.

He never looked better. Tanned and grinning, Harry Truman let his eyes twinkle over two acres of fund-bearing Democrats, a crop to rejoice the heart of a onetime Missouri farm boy, who by loyal ...

Roosevelt's New Deal. In 1952, U.S. President Harry Truman ordered government seizure of the steel industry to avoid a general strike. In 1960, the United States Senate passed the landmark Civil ...