Harry Truman, through the National Security Act of 1947, made the vice president an ex officio member of the National Security Council. It was not until the 1950s, under President Dwight D.

Alben Barkley, who served as Harry Truman’s vice president, is the one who coined the term "Veep." He found "Mr. Vice President" too formal and got the idea to add the two “e’s” from his ...

In May 1948, as President Harry Truman was gearing up for ... him as “scrupulously honest.” Throughout Truman’s 82-day tenure as vice president, he dreaded the day when he would be thrust ...

The Pentagon extended the deployment of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier strike group and ordered a second flotilla ...