Win McNamee/Getty Images Other military veterans who saw combat, including most of the seven post-Civil War presidents, as well as Harry Truman ... before his first inauguration in 1933.

One of the first was President Harry S. Truman. "He was a courageous man, [a] Democrat. I’ve always been a Republican, but man, I admire, Democrat or Republican, [anyone] who can be strong ...

"If you want a friend in Washington," Harry Truman once said, "get a dog." Indeed, from George Washington, who bred foxhounds (and who returned British general Howe's dog, a POW, under a flag of ...

Vice President Harry S. Truman, who had little experience in foreign affairs, was sworn in as President. In The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany 1941-1945 ...

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Truman renovated the State Dining Room in the '50s, and Jacqueline Kennedy restored it in the '60s. The White House has 132 rooms, and each new US president gets $100,000 to redecorate them.

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The U.S. Constitution, in Article II, Section 2, grants the president the power of executive clemency. Executive clemency includes the power to pardon, in which the president overturns a federal ...