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Harry S. Truman

#1972 deaths #1884 births #Writers from Missouri #World War II political leaders #William Chrisman High School alumni #Vice Presidents of the United States #United States vicepresidential candidates 1944 #United States Senators from Missouri #United States preside

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Dean of Barnard College and Teddy Roosevelt's grandson founded an organization that lobbied the Truman administration to prevent the creation of the State of Israel?
  • the White House Entrance Hall (pictured) had the President's seal removed from its floor in the early 1950s because President Truman thought it inappropriate to walk across it?
  • award-winning television editor Walter Balderson was the only TV cameraman inside the White House for the 1953 Inauguration Day meeting between U.S. President Truman and President-elect Eisenhower?
  • as part of the redesign of the Grand Staircase in the Truman-era White House, architect Lorenzo Winslow developed a series of maquettes, detailed scale models showing the proposed designs?
  • U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building?
  • Leon Keyserling was the head of the Council of Economic Advisers advising U.S. President Truman, yet never finished his own graduate dissertation in economics?
  • President Truman's own pastor came out publicly against his appointment of General Mark Wayne Clark (pictured) as ambassador to Pope Pius XII?
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