Truman

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  • 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