Truman Presidential Museum & Library hosts documents, photographs, virtual exhibits, audio files, oral histories, digital archives, kids page, educational information about President Harry S. Truman, and his Presidency.

Biography of Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third President of the United States (1945-1953).

Harry S Truman National Historic Site Located in Independence and Grandview, MO TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Truman Home (photo by Keith Drews) IN BRIEF Harry S Truman National Historic Site includes the Truman Home in Independence, Missouri, and the Truman Farm Home in Grandview, Missouri. Both units are within the Kansas City metropolitan area ...

Truman: The tragic story of America's first great songwriter.

Doctor Zebra Presidential health List of Presidents Harry Truman The Medical History of President Harry Truman Truman had very few health problems in his lifetime -- mostly minor. he had a tendency to ignore his illness until it either went away, or floored him. President #33. Lived: 18841972. Served: 19451953. Timeline: == 2002 | == 1776 Maladies = diphtheria farsightedness childhood ...

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School Truman Doctrine PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN'S ADDRESS BEFORE A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS, MARCH 12, 1947 Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Congress of the United States: The gravity of the situation which confronts the world today necessitates my appearance before a joint session of the Congress. The foreign policy and the national security of this ...

Truman Library When Harry S. Truman decided not to run again for president in 1952, he said he'd had all he wanted of Washington and returned to his hometown of Independence, Missouri. Washington had probably had enough of Truman, too. His approval rating at the time was the lowest of any president in the 20th century -- even lower than Nixon's. To the people of Independence, however, approval ...

HARRY S. TRUMAN Excerpted from an essay by David McCullough: He had arrived first in Washington in the 1930s as a senator notable mainly for his background in the notorious Pendergast machine of Kansas City. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and like many of Scotch-Irish descent--and I know something of this from my own background--he could be narrow, clannish, short-tempered, stubborn to a fault.

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Harry Truman and the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima.

President Truman's Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress. April 16, 1945 Listen to speech via Real Player Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the Congress: It is with a heavy heart that I stand before you, my friends and colleagues, in the Congress of the United States. Only yesterday, we laid to rest the mortal remains of our beloved President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At a time ...

This webpage deals with the life and works of the American President Harry S. Truman.

Biography of President Harry Truman, focus on how the planetary metaphor of Saturn was reflected in his life and work, by renowned astrocartographer Rob Couteau.