On this day in 1945, Vice President Harry S. Truman had joined House Speaker ... summoned to the Executive Mansion by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had unexpectedly returned from his ...

C-SPAN is testing some improvements to our website and we'd like to ask for ... 1945 after the death of Franklin Roosevelt. Curator Clay Bauske toured the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt, the nation’s 32nd president ... died from a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Vice President Harry S. Truman was sworn in as president by Chief Justice Harlan F.

On this day in 1945, President Franklin D ... New York. As Roosevelt’s successor, President Harry S. Truman decided that a tougher policy toward the Soviet Union was necessarily in order.

1944 - November 7: Franklin Roosevelt elected to his fourth term as President on November 7. Harry Truman, a senator from Missouri, is elected Vice President. 1945: Franklin Roosevelt dies of a ...

Between April, 1945, when Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death thrust Harry S. Truman into office, and January, 1953, when Truman handed the Presidency to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the war in Europe ...

Now the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is offering a 3,000-square-foot exhibition, “FDR’s Final Campaign,” providing insight into the decision’s stakes, the courage ...

My grandfather Harry S. Truman, who was sworn in as president after the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, had inherited a worldwide catastrophe. Although World War II would end in the ...

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 ...

Harry S. Truman of Missouri assumed office when Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945 ... landing boats that famously took the men ashore at D-Day and on islands in the Pacific. The Navy had stubbornly ...

was renamed in honor of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt by President Harry Truman. Despite being laid down during World War II, the carrier missed combat in the conflict, only being commi ...