Harry Truman

On July 26, 1948, President Harry Truman issued two executive orders.

<p>Roosevelt, like Lincoln and Wilson, died fighting for his ideals. </p>

<p><span class="deck">The elder statesman sets the record straight on JFK, LBJ, Stalin, the bomb, Charles de Gaulle, Douglas MacArthur, and, most of all, the American presidency.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The unquiet history of the modern state of Israel has been tied up with the United States from the beginning.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The half-remembered Korean conflict was full of surprises, and nearly all of them were unpleasant</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In the classic “oral biography” of Harry Truman, many of the president’s most trenchant assertions may simply have been invented.</span></p>

<p>A determined president fires his constitution-defying celebrity general in Korea.</p>

<p>There was widespread misconduct in Harry Truman’s administration, but historians discount the president's responsibility. </p>

<p>Harry Truman's wife Bess was not amused when she saw the photo of her husband playing the piano while Lauren Bacall's legs dangled in front.</p>