Harry S. Truman

Philippines and the Pacific during World War II. In 1947, President Truman reinstated General MacArthur into the army to lead his troops into battle during the Korean War. Conflict started to arise when General MacArthur had different ideologies and a different…

"the President 's eyes, ears and legs" and provided objective information to her husband about what she learned while…

William “Billy” Franklin Graham, Jr was born November 7, 1918 close to Charlotte, North Carolina to loving couple William and Morrow Graham. Billy grew up on a dairy farm and was always outside. He attended Wheaton College where he met his future with Ruth Bell. They married in 1943. Billy Graham was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Western Springs, Illinois for a short time before he began his career as an evangelist. Billy Graham was an influential American in his evangelism,…

bomb was dropped, but it still remains that the main reason given to the public was to end the war. However, the US used this opportunity to initiate a sense of power over the Soviet Union in order to discourage the spread of communism. President Harry Truman spoke of this bombing at the White House to inform the American public of his reasoning for this atomic bomb, and how it will be known for much more than “the size of the enterprise, it’s secrecy, [or] its cost.”. The immense amount of…

helped start NATO as Secretary of State (History.com, 2009). General Marshall received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for his Marshall Plan (History.com, 2009). General Marshall also had the opportunity to become Secretary of Defense for President Truman but he believed that Military leaders could make non-biased choices that are best for the United States better than he…

Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace and States’ Rights Party candidate Strom Thurmond, both third party candidates in 1948, had a huge number of their supporter’s defect and support Truman in the waning weeks of the election (Gallup, 2002, para 4). This would be a big shift in the number of votes Truman would have received because both Thurmond and Wallace were both Democrats in their own right. Thurmond was a Southern Democrat or “Dixicrat” whose goal was to draw enough Southern and…

The statistics that Nixon provided also are in the category of logos, which is self-explanatory. He later goes on to say how that Eisenhower’s competition is Stevenson, and that is Stevenson is connected to Truman, then they obviously both have the same ties. He goes on to say that if Truman has been ineffectively fighting communism then that is the same thing that Stevenson will do. After that he talks about big business. This is where the beginning of his video ties in with the conclusion. He…

A major economic challenge facing America today would be is welfare system. Welfare was first made the job of the government during the Great Depression but ever since then, it has become a mismanaged economic burden in need of reform. One example of these welfare programs is Social Security, costing America 888 billion dollars a year and scheduled to use up its reserves by the year 2034, according to the Social Security Administration itself (United States. Board of Trustees…). Another program,…

Sam Rayburn Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, also known as Sam Rayburn, was an American politician born January 6, 1882. He was born in Kingston, Tennessee. Later, Sam and his family moved to Flag Spring, Texas, were they lived on a 40 acre cotton farm. Sam worked the farm with both his parents, William and Martha Rayburn, and his 10 siblings. Sam graduated from East Texas Normal College, now Texas A&M University-Commerce. He taught school for some time until he was elected as a representative in the…

policy making continues to be a struggle in the National Security Council. As the policy makers that designed NSA 47 intended, different Presidents have implemented the NSC in different ways. The first, President Truman, hardly used it at all. Even in the buildup to the Korean War Truman sparingly called meetings of the NSC. It would not be until President Eisenhower that the NSC’s regimental structure would be used to make recommendations on national security. Therefore, policy makers…