Email her story idea. As a veteran, senator and short-lived vice president, President Harry S. Truman was known for his wartime decisions and promise of support to nations fighting Soviet control.

That was the preeminent statement applied to President Harry S. Truman, and accurately sums up his political and more general style while in the White House, and thereafter for the rest of his life.

By August of 1946, Truman had been president for a little over a year ... continued on his cruise to New England, he continued to relax as he watched a movie aboard the ship.