on April 12, 1945, Vice President Harry S. Truman passed along some exciting news: His coming radio address for Jefferson Day, which Franklin D. Roosevelt created to mark the third president’s ...

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.

USS Franklin Roosevelt: A Navy Aircraft Carrier Like No Other Years ago, the Navy shocked observers by proposing to retire the nuclear supercarrier USS Harry S. Truman from service some twenty ...

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 ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt had a fatal stroke April 12 ... with the party bosses settling on Missouri Sen. Harry S. Truman over Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, a Yakima High School ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simple, replied Redding. Truman and his speechwriters should stop trying to make the president sound like his predecessor, Franklin Roosevelt. In other words, let Harry be Harry. “Put him on the ...