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Right after World War II, a crucial alliance between the two countries fell apart. We are still paying the price.
The United States was caught by surprise when heavily-armed North Korean troops and tanks poured into South Korea on June 25, 1950. But the Chicago Tribune had predicted America’s enemies would ...
The biggest political question during the 1944 Democratic National Convention was who an ailing FDR would choose as vice president.
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Roosevelt instead chose Truman to be his running mate for the 1944 elections, so it was Truman who became president after FDR’s death in April1945.
History Dept. Truman’s Secret Plea to Eisenhower: Take My Job With his political future in peril, the president asked the war hero to replace him as the Democrats’ nominee.
This Truman-era perfidy must be acknowledged if we are to successfully meet the challenge of the Chinese Communist Party today.
Robert Hannegan, the committee chairman, and Edwin Pauley, the treasurer, hoped President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s message would settle the question of who would serve as the next vice president.
Iowans fret about brain drain and the devotion of the president's supporters in letters published June 30 to July 6, 2025.
Truman, who served nearly all of FDR’s last term plus his own, did not immediately swear off another term in 1952.