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Judge Harry S. Truman at Thayer, Missouri, speaking on the steps of a building. Men are seated on the steps listening to him. From an album of campaign pictures from October 1 to November 3, 1934, presented to Senator Harry S. Truman by Urso W. George and Bentley Morrow.
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The Truman Library recently completed a massive renovation...
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26 de oct. de 2020 · Truman abolió la segregación del ejército de los Estados Unidos. Legado Harry S. Truman promulgó algunos primeros pasos importantes en materia de derechos civiles a la vez que protegió muchos de los logros del New Deal.
Principales acciones. Harry S. Truman usó armas nucleares para terminar la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La ley laboral de Taft-Hartley restringió moderadamente la actividad sindical. Truman elevó el salario mínimo y amplió la Seguridad Social. Truman abolió la segregación del ejército de los Estados Unidos. Legado.
- The Campaign and Election of 1948
- Truman and The Democrats
- The Republican Opposition
- Truman Versus Dewey
- The Election of 1948
The Democratic Party’s poor showing in the 1946 mid-term congressional elections—in which the Republican Party took control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives for the first time since 1928—considerably dimmed Truman’s prospects for re-election in 1948. Indeed, a public opinion poll taken in December 1946 revealed that only 35 perce...
Divisions within the Democratic Party hurt Truman's chances for re-election in 1948. Truman's weakness as a candidate led some Democrats to consider offering the party's nomination to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom they (incorrectly) believed to be a Democrat. On the eve of the Democratic convention, Eisenhower strongly denied any interest in t...
The Republicans in 1948 nominated New York governor Thomas Dewey for President and California governor Earl Warren for vice president. It was a strong ticket. Dewey had run in 1944 against FDR and lost a close race; he remained young, popular, and progressive. Strongly anti-communist, he was an internationalist in foreign affairs. On domestic issue...
Truman brought the Republican-controlled 80th Congress back to Washington in late July and presented it with his list of desired legislation. Congress met for two weeks, failed to pass any of Truman's proposals, and adjourned. Truman could now point to yet another example of the "do-nothing" Republican Congress and warn the electorate that a Republ...
On election day, November 2, Truman, along with Bess and Margaret, voted in their hometown of Independence, Missouri. Truman had lunch with several old friends and repaired alone to a local hotel to await the returns. At midnight, Truman heard NBC report that while he was ahead by more than one million votes, Dewey was still expected to win. At fou...
Campaña. El sucesor de Franklin Roosevelt desde 1945, Harry S. Truman, ganó la presidencia por derecho propio en 1948, derrotando al republicano Thomas Dewey y logrando uno de los retornos políticos más impresionantes de la historia de Estados Unidos. Desafíos.
Harry S. Truman 1948 presidential campaign. In 1948, Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley were elected president and vice president of the United States, defeating Republican nominees Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren. Truman, a Democrat and vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt, had ascended to the presidency upon Roosevelt's death in 1945.
