From the ashes of World War II, President Harry Truman helped create global institutions that have defined international ...

The Truman Library in Independence, Mo., marked President Harry S. Truman’s 141st birthday with a wreath ceremony, free ...

Proper historical perspective attests the fact that Harry Truman faced up courageously to more grave decisions than any other ...

WASHINGTON, May 14, 1948 (UP) -- President ... C. Marshall and Undersecretary Robert Lovett before the action was taken and had their complete support. Ross also told reporters that Truman had ...

What later became known as the Marshall Plan had actually been born closer to the Kremlin than to Memorial Church. Shortly after accepting President Truman's call to return from China (where he ...

President Truman has long been lionized by many in ... Throughout the evening, big issues were invoked: democracy, NATO, the Marshall Plan, civil rights and the desegregation of the military.

THE drama of MacArthur’s removal and homecoming obscures a far more important fact: President ... general plan of the Korean war. Up until 10:48 on the night of April 11, when Truman finished ...

From the ashes of World War II, President Harry Truman presided over ... rebuild Europe with assistance funneled through the Marshall Plan, and it also funded the reconstruction of Japan.