William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and ...

Harry Truman never wanted to be president. He got the job anyway when Franklin Roosevelt died in April 1945. FDR was a hard act to follow, and Truman was largely unknown outside his home state.

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It also echoes what another Democratic president, Harry Truman, did 70 years ago when he seized steel mills in this country. Like Biden, Truman acted in the name of national security. Nippon first ...

Having inaugurated the 47th president this week, it is worth reflecting on the example set by Harry S. Truman, our 33rd ...

President Jimmy Carter receives Harry S Truman public service award “President Carter did come to the Truman library in May of 1981 to accept the Harry S Truman public service award from the cit ...

Ahead of Donald Trump's second inauguration, take a look back at the transition of presidential power throughout U.S. history ...

Harry Truman, no political tyro ... ever since the great Court-packing skirmish of 1937. In such a war, a President who stakes everything on public support and fails to win it—in unmistakable ...

On Monday, Joe Biden will no longer be president. After five decades in elective office, Biden will go home, unappreciated ...

POPULIST presidential candidate Donald J. Trump triumphed in the US elections in 2024. On January 20, 2025, Donald J. Trump ...

Office of Presidential Libraries. Harry S. Truman Library, via Wikimedia Commons Because Trump has been elected president twice already, the plain language of the amendment bars him from being elected ...

Office of Presidential Libraries. Harry S. Truman Library, via Wikimedia Commons Because Trump has been elected president ...