After succeeding Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, Harry S. Truman won the presidency in his own right in 1948, defeating Republican Thomas Dewey and achieving one of the most stunning political comebacks ...

FDR accepts his party's nomination and their choice of Harry Truman as his running mate, and despite his poor health, launches a rigorous and successful campaign against Thomas Dewey. As election ...

"Had FDR had been killed there, that whole era would have been different. He came within a foot of being shot there." Truman's Little White House in the Keys In the late 1940s, Harry S. Truman ...

WASHINGTON, April 12, 1945 (UP)-Here is the oath which President Harry S. Truman was given tonight by Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone: Back to top ...

Roosevelt, and seven other sitting presidents ... questions about the decision to drop the nuclear bomb, the Red Scare, Truman's foreign policy and more ...