Harry Truman
The Public Record
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States, serving from April 12, 1945, to January 20, 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he assumed the presidency after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Truman is known for his decisive leadership during the final months of World War II, including the controversial decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which contributed to Japan's surrender. He also played a significant role in the early stages of the Cold War, implementing the Truman Doctrine to contain communism and establishing NATO.
If we keep the people fully informed, I am confident that they will support the Congress and the President in our fight against the special interests.
Since the fortunes of our Nation and the peace of the world depend in part upon the skill, the gallantry, and the uncompromising devotion of the Army of the United States, let us all, on the day appointed, accord to our Army the signal…
The same diehard reactionaries who want to cripple the labor unions have also started a campaign of confusion against all other measures for the welfare of the people.
It is important that the American people should be aware of the tactics that the special interests are using to obstruct our programs.
Before you offer to bury a good Democrat, you better be sure he is dead.
Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt gave us the new freedom and the new deal.
I think it is the greatest political party in the history of the world.
I am very fond of good music, and I think Mr. Tucker has one of the loveliest voices I ever listened and I have heard a great many of them.
I am most happy, most happy, to have together all the September Democrats, and the October Democrats--and the Monday Democrats, and the Tuesday Democrats, and the Wednesday Democrats!
My first effort at a political speech would not be printable--or quotable.
I thought we had a perfect toastmaster, or presiding officer, for this occasion in Wilson Wyatt.
As Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, I desire that Army Commands throughout the Nation mark the designated day with appropriate ceremonies
To do this means that the Government must act--act wisely and judiciously-but it must act.
Then came along an old man from Tennessee, and he took a hickory stick and he put it into practice.
As long as people are interested in the welfare of the Government, as you are interested in it, I haven't any doubt as to its stability and its lasting power.





