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 ...

In May 1948, as President Harry Truman was gearing up for his campaign ... of a journeyman politician who became president while being “utterly unprepared” for the job. In the end, he survived ...

The weight of history presses upon the shoulders of every president of the United States ... hunger for power while others, like Harry S. Truman, step forward reluctantly, guided not by personal ...

Why did Acheson, and subsequently President ... people.” Truman took Vandenberg’s advice. On March 12, 1947, he appeared before a joint session of Congress and laid out what become known ...

From 1946 through 1952, President Harry Truman used this house as his winter vacation home and because he spent 175 days of his presidency here, it became known as the Little White House.