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Harry S. Truman
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The Russians are liars – you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word.
— Statement to Richard Nixon and his wife Pat in 1969, as quoted in The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 44
Harry S. Truman
President of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician (1884–1972)
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Lived 1884–1972, aged 88United States
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He dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, established the architecture of the Cold War, and won an election almost no one thought he could. The accidental president who stepped into Franklin Roosevelt's shoes and remade the postwar world.
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Born in Lamar, Missouri in 1884, Truman fought in France as a Field Artillery captain during World War I, then returned to open a haberdashery in Kansas City before entering politics as a Jackson County judge in 1922. He rose to national prominence chairing the Truman Committee between 1940 and 1944, targeting wartime contract waste, which carried him to the vice presidency in 1944. When Roosevelt died in April 1945, Truman learned of the Manhattan Project only after assuming office, then authorized the first and only use of nuclear weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He implemented the Ma…
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Harry S. Truman
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Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.
— Statement to a group of four congress freshmen (2 July 1947), as quoted in The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 44
Harry S. Truman
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The Russians are like us, they look and act like us. They are fine people. They got along with our soldiers in Berlin very well.
— Statement to a group of four congress freshmen (2 July 1947), as quoted in The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 44
Harry S. Truman
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It is my deep conviction that we have reached a turning point in our country's efforts to guarantee freedom and equality to all our citizens.
— Speech to the NAACP (June 29, 1947)
Harry S. Truman
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People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo... the country is perfectly safe so far as Communism is concerned—we have too many sane people.
— Letter to George H. Earle, former governor of Pennsylvania (received 28 February 1947); reported in The New York Times (3 April 1947), p.
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