Having been vice president for only 82 days, Harry S Truman became the 33rd US president on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s death ...

Beginning on April 12, 1945, with the untimely death of the United States longest tenured Commander-in-Chief, Franklin D.

WASHINGTON, April 12, 1945 (UP) -- Harry S. Truman ... Secretary Stephen Early telephoned Vice President Truman and asked him to come to the White House. Truman arrived in 10 minutes and was ...

To Mark Adams, a particular item on display at the Truman Presidential Library and a snippet from the presidential oath of office administered at the White House on April 12, 1945, help show the ...

President Harry S. Truman has on a number of occasions shown ... In his first speech after his inauguration as vice-president, made in Chicago go on March 17, 1945, President Truman made a strong ...