William Rufus King had been vice president for forty-five days when he died in office. Harry Truman had been vice president for eighty-two days when Franklin Delano Roosevelt died at the Little White ...

Officials at the White House had to be notified of Roosevelt’s passing and Vice President Harry Truman had to be sworn into office as the new President of the United States. The presidential train had ...

Leuchtenburg wrote of Roosevelt's immediate successor, Harry Truman, gesturing in the White House to a portrait of FDR and admitting, "I'm trying to do what he would like." He noted the ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and ...

Leuchtenburg wrote of Roosevelt’s immediate successor, Harry Truman, gesturing in the White House to a portrait of FDR and admitting, “I’m trying to do what he would like.” He noted the ...

As President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders and directives on his first day of his second administration, he ...