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Of the individuals elected president of the United States, four died of natural causes while in office (William Henry Harrison, [1] Zachary Taylor, [2] Warren G. Harding [3] and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, [4] James A. Garfield, [4] [5] William McKinley [6] and John F. Kennedy) and one resigned from office ...
Former President Harry Truman with "The Buck Stops Here" sign on a recreation of his Oval Office desk. When he left office in 1953, Truman was one of the most unpopular chief executives in history. His job approval rating of 22% in the Gallup Poll of February 1952 was lower than Richard Nixon's 24% in August 1974, the month that Nixon resigned.
Truman poses in 1959 at the recreation of the Truman Oval Office at the Truman Library in 1959, with the famous "The Buck Stops Here" sign on his desk. Truman's ranking in polls of historians and political scientists have never fallen lower than ninth, and he has ranked as high as fifth in a C-SPAN poll in 2009. [307]
Harry Truman played piano and even told the world that if he had been a better pianist he would never have been president. RELATED: Presidents' favorite foods While many presidents count golf ...
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This is one in a series of 13 Yahoo News interviews with historians about defining moments in presidential leadership. The interviews were conducted by Andrew Romano, Lisa Belkin and Sam Matthews ...
Chief Justice of the United States Harlan F. Stone administered the presidential oath of office; [2] Stone began the oath "Do you, Harry Shipp Truman..." in the erroneous belief that Shipp was the President's mother's maiden name and, by extension, his middle name, [3] to which Truman replied, "I Harry S. Truman..." [4] before the oath was ...
February 12 – Prime Minister of Canada Louis St. Laurent meets with President Truman for the first time in Washington for discussions relating to the defense of North American. [200] February 12 – United States Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington delivers a speech at the Lincoln Day banquet in which he promotes the strength of the B ...