Truman

• Brogan, Effect of WW2


  War Achieved what the New Deal so falteringly attempted
• Brogan, Truman Character


  Strong southern sympathies
• McCullough, Popularity + Congress April 1945


  People everywhere felt relief even hope, bond of friendship, passed with flying colors
• McCullough, Popularity + Congress December 1946


  easy familiarity ... proving a handicap
• Brogan, Bretton Woods 1944


  World monetary system pegged to the dollar which meant the US would be more powerful and they were "unalteringly convinced (of) ... capitalism"
• Forrestal, Foreign Policy


  Better to have a "showdown" now rather than later
• General Marshall, urged Truman to be cautious as USSR might delay participation in WW2 until ..


  "We have done all the dirty work"
• How Americans feel at the swearing in of Truman

  "Physically ill" Lilienthal, just a common man, Who?, "Not qualified to fill Roosevelts large shoes" General Bradler, "He has guts"
• Truman, Inauguration April 1945 FDR dead


  The weight of the world has just fallen on me
• McCullough, Trumans advisors


  "They were all Roosevelts people"
• Harriman, April 1945 Suggestion


  A "barbarian invasion of Europe"
• Molotov, Meeting with Truman April 1945


  "I have never been talked to like that in my life"
• McCullough, Potsdam 1945


  Hitler was hardly in his grave; already Truman had substituted Stalin for Hitler as the madman who had to be stopped
• Kennan, Long Telegram 22 Feb 1946


  force a contradiction of soviet influence, impossible to believe that the Russians could be other than expansionists, world communism is like a malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue, dark dictatorship, there can be no permanent peaceful coexistence
• Fleming, Long Telegram is embedded in the American Mindset


  Main article of faith
• Dean Acheson, on Communism spreading


  Rotten .... apples in a barrel
• Robert Griffin, Truman + emerging Cold War


  Truman emerges, not as the victim of bitter peace, but as the principal architect of an emerging Cold War
• McCullough, Truman Personality


  No exceptional intellectual prowess, see things in far simpler terms, had never known what it was like to be glamorous
• Acheson, Truman Personality


  Straightforward, decisive, simple and entirely honest
• Higgins, Trumans Foreign Policy


  Lacking coherent policy
• Truman, Doctrine 1947


  Nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life
• Churchill, Marshall Plan 1947


  The most unselfish act in history
• Marshall, Marshall Plan


  Our policy is directed against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos
• Truman, Use of the A-bomb his memoir


  I have no regrets, and, under the circumstances I would do it again
• Truman, Forceful


  Force is the only thing the Russians understand
• Nekrasov, 1984 Bombs + USSR attitude


  The purpose of these bombings was to intimidate other countries above all the Soviet Union
• Byrnes, Nuclear Weapons


  Any weapon that would bring an end to the war and save casualties amount American boys was justified
• Bohlen, Difference FDR + Truman


  The difference was in Style
• Bailey, Truman Doctrine + Marshall Plan


  Truman preferred to spend millions to prevent people from becoming communists rather than spend billions to shoot them after they became communists
• Bradley, MacArthur in the Korean War


  The wrong War, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong enemy
• McCullough, Election 1948 Truman feelings


  Goldfish bowl, glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway, he enjoyed the power of the office, reward of service
• McCullough, Reactions to Fair Deal domestic program


  Angry outcry on the hill,a lynching of the constitution
• Carl Clifford, reaction to Fair Deal proposal


  The right thing "morally and politically"
• McCullough, Truman + Civil Rights


  Not entirely outgrown his background,
• Truman, rights


  I am not asking for social equality but for equality of opportunity...
• Rowe, Election 1948


  The Cold War made good election year politics
• Cliff Clevenger (rep), Whistle stop campaign 1948


  Missouri Jackass, nasty little gamin
• McCullough, Election 1948


  The crowds continued large and friendly, ablest strongest man available, he faced some of the toughest abuse, his party was broke
• K1C2


  korean, communism and corruption - promise to take the USA out the Korean war
• 1952


  USA tested first H-bomb