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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 ...
By the time Truman took office, National health insurance had been on the table for decades, but it had never gained much traction. Starting in the late 1930s hospitals promoted private insurance plans such as Blue Cross , [ 237 ] and between 1940 and 1950, the percentage of Americans with health insurance rose from 9 percent to above 50 ...
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.
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April 12 – Harry S. Truman is inaugurated as the 33rd president of the United States in a ceremony in the Cabinet Room, the oath being administered by Chief Justice of the United States Harlan F. Stone and completed exactly two hours and thirty four minutes after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. [1]
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 ...
At 101, Sandy Horwitz has participated in 80 general elections and 21 presidential elections. He cast his first vote in 1944 for Franklin D. Roosevelt using an absentee ballot.
George H.W. Bush. Before: $4 million After: $23 million The elder Bush had grown his net worth by 475% between the time he took office in 1989 and 2017, when The American University study was ...