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Scottsbluff Star Herald
April 27, 2018
GERING — On April 17, 1952, President Harry Truman signed a bill proclaiming the National Day of Prayer into law. President Ronald Reagan amended the law in 1988, designating the first Thursday of May each year as the National Day of Prayer. In conjunction with this national event, the mayors ofÃâà...
ProPublica
April 27, 2018
Miners like Jimmy Woolum thought they were promised health care for life in a long-ago deal between President Harry Truman and legendary UMWA President John L. Lewis. In reality, protecting that health care has been an almost constant fight, part of the root of the bitter strikes against Pittston Coal andÃâà...
Politico
April 25, 2018
On this day in 1945, President Harry S. Truman received his first comprehensive briefing on the secret Manhattan Project, under which U.S. scientists and engineers were well on the way to building the first atomic bomb. Truman had assumed the presidency on April 12 with the death of Franklin D.
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
April 19, 2018
Months into the Korean War, President Harry Truman capped wages and imposed price controls on the steel industry, seizing authority under a newly passed law to take action in the name of national defense. Now, more than a half century later, Trump administration officials are considering using the sameÃâà...
JNS.org
April 19, 2018
(April 19, 2018 / Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C.) President Harry S. Truman will forever be remembered for his fateful decision to recognize the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. That decision came at the most critical of times, when the newly established country was fighting off genocidal attacks from its enemies in itsÃâà...
Mosaic
April 15, 2018
Fortunately for the Zionists, they had in Washington one powerful ally in their fight against the latest ploy to defer, if not to abort, the creation of a Jewish state: namely, President Harry Truman. Indeed, at precisely the same time as their own deliberations in Tel Aviv, Truman was laboring to convince GeorgeÃâà...
Politico
April 11, 2018
On this day in 1945, Vice President Harry S. Truman had joined House Speaker Sam Rayburn for a late-afternoon drink in Rayburn's private hideaway when another guest, Lewis Deschler, the House parliamentarian, reminded Rayburn that Truman had received a call from the White House. Truman dialedÃâà...
PopMatters
March 30, 2018
In the introduction to The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World, A.J. Baime claims that his book "poses a new .... In one of his more lamentable turns of phrase, Baime writes: "The bomb was set to usher in a new epoch, and destiny had made Harry Truman itsÃâà...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
March 14, 2018
If Donald Trump serves two terms as president, he's likely to blow away Harry Truman and George W. Bush for the most Cabinet members. Truman and Bush each had 35. Truman, for instance, had four secretaries of state, four secretaries of defense and four attorneys general. Bush had four directors of theÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 13, 2018
On the eve of President Donald Trump's first visit to California since taking office, the state's Democratic governor, Jerry Brown, is questioning Trump's ... Brown cites the visits of President Harry Truman, who in 1945 witnessed the signing of the United Nations charter in San Francisco, and of PresidentÃâà...
Missoula Current
March 5, 2018
A sense of what is called the “gravitas” of their position. Harry Truman understood it in spades when he became president on Roosevelt's death, a task for which he was almost totally unprepared. “Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now,” he said to the press on his first day as president. “I don't know if youÃâà...
CNN
March 2, 2018
Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) President Donald Trump and the first lady will be in attendance Friday as Reverend Billy Graham is laid to rest during a ... The evangelist had met and prayed with every US President from Harry Truman to Barack Obama, developing friendships and serving as a spiritualÃâà...
KHOU
February 24, 2018
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura will come to Charlotte Monday to pay their respects to Rev. Billy Graham. Bush has publicly credited the evangelist with helping him turn his life around when he was younger. Graham's nephew, Mel Graham said his uncle hadÃâà...
Charlotte Observer
February 21, 2018
For almost half a century, Billy Graham was confidante and clergyman to America's presidents. A registered Democrat who usually supported Republicans for president, Graham said the Bible tells us to pray for the powerful: “Jacob prayed for the pharaoh, and Daniel prayed for Nebuchadnezzer.” Here's aÃâà...
Kansas City Star
February 19, 2018
This is Harry Truman's year. The White House Historical Association every year commissions a unique Christmas ornament to sell. Since 1981, the ornament has honored either an individual president or a White House event. This year it's the 33rd president's turn. The announcement was made Monday atÃâà...
Nasdaq
February 16, 2018
When Harry Truman had the American presidency thrust on him on April 12, 1945, he called it the day "the whole weight of the moon and the stars fell on me." President Franklin D. Roosevelt had died 82 days into his unprecedented fourth term. Truman had been made vice president because he was theÃâà...
Politico
December 31, 1999
When Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived at the White House on this day in 1945 en route to the San Francisco conference that set up the United Nations, he thought he was making a courtesy call on President Harry S. Truman, who had assumed the office 11 days earlier, after the death ofÃâà...
Sidney Herald Leader
December 31, 1999
Truman, like many other leaders, rose to the task and guided America through some hard times. For months I have been hoping that President Trump would experience the load of hay effect and get to the business of governing, but by now I've pretty much given up hope. And, honestly, I have wished for hisÃâà...
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