Timeline of the Harry S. Truman presidency

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The presidency of Harry S. Truman began on April 12, 1945, when Harry S. Truman became the 33rd president upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ended on January 20, 1953.

1945

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April

  • 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]
  • April 13 – Several labor unions in official and unofficial capacities pledge support for President Truman.[2]
  • April 14 – President Truman attends FDR's funeral. The White House announces President Truman's first press conference of his tenure will be held in three days.[3]
  • April 15 – President Truman attends Roosevelt's burial services.[4]
  • April 16 – President Truman addresses a joint session of Congress, during which he outlines his intentions of his tenure, including plans to win the war, carrying on the policies of the late President Roosevelt, and punishing war criminals.[5]
  • April 17 – President Truman delivers a broadcast address to service members in the United States Army and Navy, telling them that they shall carry a tradition of not faltering as done by his immediate predecessor and recalls his own service during World War I as having made him privy to both killing on the battlefield and the fighting man's trials and tribulations.[6][7]
  • April 18 – President Truman orders the Department of Commerce receive the transmission of the surplus property of the treasury procurement division.[8] President Truman designates May 13 as Mother's Day in order to show what he calls the US's "gratitude, love, and devotion" for its mothers.[9]
  • April 20 – President Truman holds the second news conference of his tenure in his White House office.[10]
  • April 23 – President Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Marshal Joseph Stalin issue a joint statement during the evening, saying in part, "Any person guilty of maltreating or allowing any Allied prisoners of war, internees or deported citizens to be maltreated, whether in battle zone, on lines of communication, in a camp, hospital, prison or elsewhere, will be ruthlessly pursued and brought to punishment."[11]
  • April 26 – Press Secretary Jonathan Daniels requests White House reporters give President Truman equal protection to that received by the late President Roosevelt under the voluntary censorship code.[12]
  • April 27 – President Truman issues a statement saying the armies of Anglo-Americans have met Soviet Union forces in the "heart of Nazi Germany" and that the "enemy has been cut in two."[13] President Truman holds his third news conference during the afternoon, announcing "Edwin W. Pauley as his Personal Representative on the Reparations Commission, with the rank of Ambassador, and of Dr. Isador Lubin as an Associate, with the rank of Minister."[14]
  • April 28 – President Truman holds his fourth news conference at the White House, during which he says there is "no foundation" for rumors relating to Germany surrendering, during the night hours.[15]

May

June

July

August

September

  • September 1 – President Truman says, during the night hours via radio broadcast, that the following day will be "
    V-J day" in reference to the surrender of Japan.[81] United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes pledges changes within Japan to allow for a government inclined to peace.[82] The Navy announces its intention to release, through the demobilization program, 75,000 officers and 790,000 enlisted personnel by the end of the year.[83] Assistant War Secretary McCloy holds a broadcast discussion where he alludes to the allied occupation in Germany being nowhere near ending soon.[84]
  • September 2 – The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
  • September 5 – President Truman says the White House meeting of the Roosevelt Memorial Association "was well attended, and the various proposals for memorials were discussed, and it was finally agreed to appoint a committee to nominate officers for the Roosevelt Memorial Association into an enlarged executive committee and to study plans and call another meeting to report back to the Executive Committee again" during the twenty-third news conference of his tenure in the afternoon.[85]
  • September 6 – The
    US Initial Post-Surrender Policy for Japan
    , which governs US policy in the occupation of Japan, is approved by Truman.
  • September 12 – President Truman holds the twenty-fifth news conference of his presidency in his office during the morning hours.[86]
  • September 13 – President Truman commemorates the eighty-fifth birthday of John J. Pershing.[87]
  • September 19 – President Truman discusses demobilizing the military: "Between now and Christmas the discharge rate will steadily rise from the present daily figure of 15,200 to not less than 22,000 per day and by January, 1946, to more than 25,000 per day."[88]
  • September 20 – President Truman accepts the resignation of Henry L. Stimson as United States Secretary of War in a letter.[89]

October

November

December

  • December 2 – Congressional sources reveal the Truman administration is spending US$82,000 of taxpayer money on a daily basis for the broadcasting of both swing music and news summaries to other countries.[119]
  • December 3 – The US military government office announces the ordered destruction of an additional eight German war plants.[120]
  • December 4 – The US Senate votes for the US to become part of the new league of nations as well as for President Truman to have authorization to send US troops to war for foreign nations without Congress's approval.[121]
  • December 5 – A bill advocating President Truman's fact finding and cooling off in industrial disputes recommendations is introduced in the lower chamber of Congress.[122]
  • December 6 – President Truman signs the Government Corporation Control Act, requiring budgetary programs be sent to the Bureau of the Budget on the part of corporations as well as submitting to the General Accounting Office their expenditures to the audit.[123]
  • December 7 – President Truman holds the thirty-seventh news conference of his tenure at the White House in the afternoon.[124]
  • December 10 – The Allies release a joint statement on wartime trade control removal during the morning.[125]
  • December 12 – President Truman holds the thirty-eighth news conference of his presidency in the morning at the White House, speaking about domestic issues such as appointments.[126]
  • December 15 – President Truman releases a statement calling for the cessation of hostilities be arranged between the armies of the National Government and the Chinese Communists and other dissident Chinese armed forces in order to bring about the unification of the country.[127]
  • December 17 – President Truman vetoes H. R. 1862, which he says in a statement "would extend preferential rank and retirement benefits to a particular group in one of the branches of our armed forces, and would not take into account the matter of rank and other benefits for personnel holding comparable assignments within other branches."[128]
  • December 18 – The House passes the united nations organization bill in a vote of 344 to 15; Truman is now authorized to declare war without Congress's approval.[129]
  • December 19 – President Truman sends a message to Congress endorsing the possible creation of a department for national defense.[130]
  • December 20 – President Truman declares that boards dedicated to fact finding on investigative strikes should be allowed to examine the books of employers due to his belief that the earnings of a company are relevant to wage disputes.[131]
  • December 22 – During the night hours, President Truman calls on the US to allow immigration of at least 39,000 a year as part of a quota fulfillment.[132]
  • December 23 – President Truman issues a memorandum stating the reasons behind his displease with H. R. 4407, citing its effects on appropriations through reductions and breaking up of public employment offices.[133]
  • December 26 – During a press conference at his federal building offices, President Truman announces his legislative proposals will be revealed publicly during a radio address set to be conducted in the first week of the following month.[134]
  • December 27 – President Truman talks with William Southern, and members of the staff of
    The Independence Examiner at the newspaper's offices. Truman leaves in the night hours to return to Washington, concluding his Christmas vacation.[135]
  • December 28 – Truman meets with members of his family at the White House before signing 61 bills and leaving for a cruise intended to last five days.[136]
  • December 29 – Secretary of State Byrnes travels on the USS Williamsburg in order to give President Truman a report on his trip to Moscow.[137]

1946

  • January 1 – United States Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson says the war department does not believe General Douglas MacArthur should be consulted ahead of the Japanese three occupation policies.[138]
  • January 2 – President Truman returns to Washington from his vacation.[139]
  • January 3 – President Truman urges the American people to confront their representatives for the passage of legislation he says will benefit the US in a post war period during a half hour radio address.[140]
  • January 4 – The US demands the entirety of the German general staff and high command be branded as war criminals for involvement in the Nazi program by the international military tribunal.[141]
  • January 5 – General Joseph T. McNarney announces his plans for policing American occupation zones, envisioning a task force of 38,000 men with armored vehicles that would patrol during the day and night.[142]
  • January 5 – The Labor Department reports prices resumed their upward trend at the end of World War II but adds that the average wage earner receives $4.43 less a week than needed to meet the rise in the cost of living.[143]
  • January 8 – During his forty-first news conference as president, conducted in his White House office during the morning, Truman states there is consideration for an increase in steel price.[144] President Truman releases a statement on deduction of armed forces members and explains the process by which this is conducted.[145]
  • March 4 – President Truman proposes that not approving the 3,750,000,000 loan to Britain could be "trade warfare between nations" following the loan being approved by the advisory board of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion.[146]
  • March 4 – The Senate Labor committee rejects the approval of the Case anti-strike bill developed in the House, chairman James E. Murray saying that members resented the enactment of legislation that they felt would penalize labor.[147]
  • March 4 – A special Senate-House committee recommends the elimination of over half of the current congressional committees as part of an effort to reorganize the government among an increase in congressional salary and a pension plan for congressmen.[148]
  • March 5 – Secretary of State Byrnes announces China has turned down efforts by Russia to collaborate on operating major industries in Manchuria jointly and the intent of the United States to send a message to Moscow regarding the affair.[149]
  • March 5 – A State Department official confirms a note being sent by Francisco Franco to confirm his intention of remaining in office despite allied pressure.[150]
  • March 5 – Former President Herbert Hoover is announced by Secretary of Agriculture Anderson to have accepted an invitation by President Truman to travel abroad to Europe for the purpose of surveying food needs in the continent.[151]
  • March 5 – The Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys unanimously recommends the confirmation of Julius A. Krug as Secretary of the Interior after the nominee was called up for questioning.[152]
  • March 5 – House Republicans put forth their own substitute for the Truman administration's battered-down housing bill which if enacted would deny the government the ability to clamp price ceilings on new homes.[153]
  • June 1 – President Truman accepts an honorary degree from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.[154]
  • June 14 – President Truman holds a news conference in which he confirms Myron Charles Taylor will remain his ambassador to the Vatican until world peace is secured.[155] President Truman vetoes legislation promoting navy, marine corps, and coast guard personnel who had previously been prisoners of war.[156]
  • July 15 – Truman signs a bill authorizing a loan of $3.75 billion to Great Britain.[157]
  • October 15 – Two hours before his scheduled execution, Hermann Göring commits suicide.[158]
  • November 15 – President Truman announces that President of the United Mine Workers John L. Lewis has turned down a proposal for settlement of the coal wage dispute, Truman calling for a reconsideration for what he termed a "fair and equitable" proposal by the federal government.[159]
  • November 30 – A check discloses Truman has support from Democrats and Republicans in discussions with United Mine Workers President Lewis without making compromises that may seem akin to a victory for Lewis.[160]
  • November 30 – United States Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson states prices needed to meet American occupation army expenses throughout the first six months of the following year.[161]

1947

  • March 12 – Truman delivers his "Truman Doctrine" speech to Congress, asking for a $400 million appropriation to fight the spread of Communism in Greece and Turkey.[162]
  • May 22 – Truman approves a bill providing $400 million in assistance to Greece and Turkey.[157]
  • November 4 – The United States proposes withdrawing American and Soviet-occupation armies within 90 days following the formation of an elected and independent Korean government the following year in a United Nations resolution.[163]
  • November 4 – Undersecretary of the Treasury Lee M. Wiggins says he has no particular advice to give revising tax treatment of farm cooperatives while speaking to the House Ways and Means committee.[164]

1948

January

  • January 2 – The United States and France sign a treaty accepting the conditions put forth by the US Congress that would allocate 522,000,000 dollars in winter aid to the latter country alongside Italy and Austria.[165]
  • January 3 – President Truman tasks four agencies with forming allocating programs that are voluntary and industry wide for scarcity items.[166]
  • January 6 – President Truman holds a meeting with Cabinet at the White House during the afternoon.[167]
  • January 7 – President Truman delivers the 1948 State of the Union Address.[168]
  • January 8 –
    George Marshall says Russia and the Communist Party will attempt a backfire on the European Recovery Program but also of his conviction that the US would be able to handle the opposition successfully.[169]
  • January 9 – The United States Navy announces four of its fleet-type submarines are being supplied to Turkey under the American program for strengthening Turkey against Russia.[170]
  • January 12 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation announces the resignations of eleven individuals from government service during their ongoing investigation by the FBI under the federal loyalty program.[171]
  • January 12 – President Truman sends Congress a peacetime budget providing billions for the funding of defense that would also be used to counter totalitarianism abroad.[172]
  • January 15 – The Interior Department states its expectation that President Truman will direct conservation of petroleum supplies by each government agencies to assist with relieving the critical fuel shortage within the following twenty-four hours.[173]
  • January 16 – In a letter to Senator
    John Chandler Gurney, President Truman describes the Senate Armed Services Committee with having done a disservice to the United States after voting against legislation allowing Laurence S. Kuter to serve as Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board while receiving military pay.[174]
  • January 16 – Senate Foreign Relations committee chairman Arthur Vandenberg indicates opposition to the European Recovery Program would be diminished in the event the United States could follow its funding and see where it was being used.[175]
  • January 16 –
    John Wesley Snyder gives an ultimatum from the Truman administration to the Congress during an appearance before the House Ways and Means Committee.[176]
  • January 16 – In a statement, United States Secretary of the Interior Julius Albert Krug endorses hydroelectric projects as a partial means of answering the national petroleum shortage problem.[177]

February

  • February 9 – President Truman requests Congress extend authorization for the federal aid highway program through mid-1951 at an annual rate of 500 million during a message.[178]
  • February 9 – The White House announces President Truman will leave Washington for a trip to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Cuba on February 20.[179]
  • February 9 – The House Expenditures committee rejected the Labor Department having the United States Employment Service and the Bureau of Employment Security transferred into it.[180]

June

  • June 25 – Truman signs the Displaced Persons Act authorizing admission into the United States of 205,000 European displaced persons over the following two years.[157]
  • June 26 – Truman orders an airlift of supplies into Berlin, in conjunction with the British, in answer to a Russian blockade of the portion of that city occupied by the Western powers. The blockade lasts until May 12, 1949.[157]

November

1949

January

  • January 3 – President Truman attends morning services with members of Congress to pray for the successes of the 81st United States Congress at the National Presbyterian Church.[181]
  • January 3 – In a vote of 29 to 13, Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft is re-elected as Republican Party policy leader alongside the approval of a rule change that an individual can serve in the position for more than four years.[182]
  • January 4 – During his first news conference of the 81st United States Congress, House Speaker Sam Rayburn tells reporters of his conviction that the legislative proposals of President Truman will have "considerable favor" and no priority list for legislation had been assembled.[183]
  • January 5 – President Truman delivers the 1949 State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress, calling for the repeal of the Taft–Hartley Act, aid to farmers and implementation of civil rights laws, universal training, broader social security, education and prepaid medical insurance federal aid programs, and a million new housing units over the course of the next seven years.[184]
  • January 7 – President Truman holds a news conference in which he announces the nomination of
    George Marshall and insists the change will not alter policy.[185]
  • January 8 – Five members of the Senate Labor committee endorse repealing the Taft–Hartley Act and restoring the Wagner Act prior to Congress giving consideration to any new legislation pertaining to labor.[186]
  • January 8 – The United States Army announces that it will not enlist any men for the months of either February or March as a result of increases in voluntary enlistments.[187]
  • January 8 – Indiana Representative Charles A. Halleck says the economic messages and plan outlined by President Truman during the latter's State of the Union address would bankrupt the US in addition to inflicting irreversible damage to the American free enterprise system.[188]
  • January 8 – United States Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington advocates for a seventy-member air force and the US does not have much time to prepare during his first annual report.[189]
  • January 14 – During a press conference, State Department press officer Michael J. McDermott states that countries unwilling to enter the collective defense pacts will receive no arms and defense supplies from the United States.[190]
  • January 14 – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously votes to approve Dean Acheson as United States Secretary of State.[191]
  • January 14 – United States Attorney General Tom C. Clark announces that the Justice Department has filed suit for a divorce of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and Western Electric company.[192]
  • January 20 – Second inauguration of Harry S. Truman
  • January 31 – President Truman announces the nomination of Jesse M. Donaldson for Postmaster General, the only office in his cabinet with a fixed term.[193]

February

  • February 1 – Federal Mediation Director Cyrus S. Ching states the Labor Department is unable to fulfill President Truman's recommendation for a directing of the mediation service impartially, citing the department as being too pro-labor to fulfill the wish.[194]
  • February 3 – The United States notifies the world of its intent to not allow peace maneuvers by Russia to disrupt growing alliances between western powers that are not Communist during a radio broadcast.[195]
  • February 3 – Prime Minister of Japan Shigeru Yoshida states his hope that President Truman will visit Russia to meet with Joseph Stalin and touts a potential meeting as aiding world peace by helping Russia to be more mindful of international affairs.[196]
  • February 7 – During an appearance before the Senate Labor committee, Former National War Labor Board Chairman William Davis advocates for Congress to grant President Truman to seize struck plants amid the national emergency.[197]
  • February 7 – Federal Housing expediter Tighe E. Woods predicts a fifty to sixty percent increase in rent in the event Congress does not continue strengthening rent controls and advocates for the passage of the Truman administration bill extending rent controls to the end of March 1951.[198]
  • February 12 – Hungary requests the United States withdraw the American Minister in Budapest, Selden Chapin and charges President Truman with having tried to interfere with the internal affairs of Hungary.[199]
  • 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-36 bomber.[201]
  • February 21 – Defense Secretary James Forrestal requests salary boosts for the military to put service members on the pay basis of civilians and a bill before the House Armed Services subcommittee came from 18 months of study by his advisory commission.[202]
  • February 21 – The Hoover Commission recommends changes to the State Department including more personnel to allow greater attention on foreign policy.[203]
  • February 21 – It is learned that the proposed North Atlantic pact will have reassurances that the United States will not stand idly by in the event of attack.[204]

April

  • April 1 – The Commerce Department reports that the United States's unemployment rate dropped the previous month, the first recession in four months.[205]
  • April 1 – An unnamed official at the State Department asserts the North Atlantic treaty as purely defensive and that Russia only needs to not attack any country allied with the treaty.[206]
  • April 1 – President Truman meets with Secretary of the Army Royall in regards to reports that the secretary intended to resign.[207]
  • April 14 – The United States Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin sets a dollar and five cents an hour as the minimum wage on government contracts for the woolen and worsted industry.[208]
  • April 14 – The House and Senate passes a compromise European Recovery Program a few minutes apart through a voice vote.[209]

May

June

  • June 2 – President Truman holds a news conference in which he indicates his willingness to remain in Washington throughout the entire summer as Congress has bogged down his legislative program.[210]
  • June 2 – The United Nations outlines a plan for spending more than 85 million over the following two years to assist underdeveloped countries in response to the Truman administration's call for a new program to spread knowledge on technology worldwide as well as raise living standards.[211]
  • June 8 – Republican Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper states that the Atomic Energy Commission sent Norway radioactive isotopes for the purpose of using them in studies on steel in both jet engines and rockets and calls the move "a violation of the spirit if not the letter of the law."[212]
  • June 8 – During a Paris session, Secretary of State Acheson demands the foreign ministers council undo a five-day deadline for a complete end to the Berlin blockade. The council agrees to discuss the matter the following day.[213]
  • June 8 – The Senate resumes debate on the Truman administration's bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Senator Robert Taft accuses Democrats of playing politics in their handling of the legislation and argues that the bill and amendments be considered on the basis of their merit.[214]

July

August

  • August 29 –
    Joe-1, first test of an atomic bomb by the Soviet Union. Detected by the United States on September 3.[215]

September

  • September 1 – Ahead of President Truman's news conference, Senator Joseph McCarthy states he is just getting started on his inquiry into Harry H. Vaughan and insists that President Truman's willingness to keep Vaughan as his military aide is an endorsement of the latter's ideals.[216]
  • September 1 – President Truman holds a news conference on the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Poland, expressing hope that the conflict between the Communist and democratic nations ends with surrender.[217]
  • September 1 – The United States Army announces that the United States and Canadian military forces will collaborate on fighting techniques during the winter to develop a combined defense of the critical Arctic frontier.[218]
  • September 2 – Truman administration sources say the president is likely sign a 75 cent minimum wage bill sent to him by Congress albeit with reservations.[219]
  • September 2 – Senator Joseph McCarthy tells a reporter that he will advocate for Frank Costello being called as a witness in the Senate investigation of "five percenters", citing Costello as "a very necessary and important witness."[220]
  • September 2 – Republican Senator Eugene Millikin promises debate in the event the Truman administration attempts lowering tariff barriers for Britain and does not heed Republican demands to protect the domestic industry.[221]
  • September 3 – Senator Elmer Thomas requests a detailed account describing air travel by the White House following the refusal of Defense Secretary Johnson to assign a military plane to senators in to allow them a junket around the world.[222]
  • September 4 – Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas says Republicans will politicize the reciprocal trade program in the event of the party's curbs on President Truman's tariff cutting program being granted an extension.[223]
  • September 6 – American officials says Britain will spend Marshall Plan funding anywhere the region wants to remove itself from its financial crisis.[224]
  • September 6 – General MacArthur announces there is no intention to permit mass discharges of American civilians stationed at occupation headquarters to meet Defense Secretary Johnson's economy drive.[225]
  • September 6 – Advisors to President Truman confirm his intent to spearhead Democratic campaigns by making appearances in multiple key states and that his Labor Day speech the previous day was a sample of the techniques he will use during the 1950 midterm elections.[226]
  • September 23 – Truman discloses the successful Soviet atomic bomb test to the American public.[215]

October

  • October 6 – Truman learns for the first time that a
    hydrogen bomb is possible.[215]

November

December

  • December 22 – President Truman holds a meeting with his Cabinet to review the administration's legislative program for the following year, members of the Cabinet subsequently declining to provide any further details when asked by the press.[227]
  • December 22 – The Commerce Department announces its intent to impose bans on exports of technical information important to national security "in exceptional cases".[228]

1950

  • January 1 – It is learned that President Truman has been given a new plan to prevent
    Formosa from entering Communist hands and its implementation would see the United States obtain a long-term lease on either a single base or multiple bases on Formosa.[229]
  • January 1 – President Truman joins the congregation of First Baptist Church in D.C. in observance of New Year's Day.[230]
  • January 1 – Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee Kenneth McKellar announces the upcoming meeting between the group's members will be to consider House plans to combine 1951 fiscal year appropriations into one measure.[231]
  • January 31 – After hearing from the Acheson–Johnson–Lilienthal special committee, Truman orders development of the hydrogen bomb to proceed.[215]
  • February 14 – Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin sign the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance.
  • March 3 – The White House announces President Truman will ask Congress for authority to use his powers to seize and operate coal mines.[232]
  • March 3 – The Senate Labor Committee postpones a vote on a bill by Senator Wayne Morse that would authorize government seizure of the strike-bound coal mines, citing a lack of a quorum.[233]
  • March 3 – The United States Department of the Army announces a permanent armory for the purpose of training officers and men in the Organized Reserve Corps will be established in buildings that have yet to be purchased.[234]
  • March 8 – General Omar Bradley states the United States cannot be assured against a devastating blow with its present forces while giving a speech to the Women's National Press Club.[235]
  • March 8 – Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Department employee Dorothy Kenyon with having affiliation with at least 28 Communist organizations during an appearance before a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee.[236]
  • March 10 – Truman orders the AEC to prepare for hydrogen bomb production.[215]
  • June 25 – Korean War begins.
  • August 8 – The House postpones debate on an economic controls bill.[237]
  • August 8 – President Truman completes a message to Congress in which he calls for legislation responding to combat sabotage and Communists, White House officials stating their expectation for it to be released sometime during the afternoon and that it contains a warning to the United States against being carried away by hysteria.[238]
  • August 8 – Carroll L. Wilson resigns as General Manager of the Atomic Energy Commission and Carleton Shugg is designated by the commission to serve as acting general manager.[239]
  • August 8 – FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover warns that every Communist in the United States could potentially be a spy or saboteur and states the interest of the FBI in identifying every Communist within the country.[240]
  • November 1 – Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman

1951

January

  • January 2 – President Truman signs a bill prohibiting slot machine shipments in addition to related gambling devices across the state line, the legislation providing fines and jail terms for violations.[241]
  • January 2 – The 81st United States Congress sends a civilian defense bill granting the federal government in the event of a foreign attack on the United States to the White House.[242]
  • January 4 – President Truman states his belief that inflation will eventually have to halted through the implementation of across-the-board price and wage controls and that he will elaborate on his position in his upcoming State of the Union address.[243]
  • January 4 – Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Carl Vinson says Congress will be requested to grant a six-month extension to the amount of service for draftees and calls the request one of the few parts of the proposal that he can confirm will be asked.[244]
  • January 6 – President Truman sends General Dwight D. Eisenhower to Europe with assurances that he is being supported by the American people.[245]
  • January 6 – Nevada Senator Pat McCarran rebukes the 30-day price freeze being considered by the Truman administration as ineffective and calls for price curbs that are both "immediate and systemic" to "stop the impending threat to the economic and industrial life of America."[246]
  • January 8 – President Truman delivers the 1951 State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.[247]
  • January 9 – Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy publicly discloses a letter he sent to Secretary of the Army Pace asking how classified military messages became known to columnist Drew Pearson.[248]
  • January 10 – President Truman attends the award ceremonies for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in his White House office.[249]
  • January 11 – President Truman delivers remarks at a buffet dinner at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington held in honor of Democratic members of Congress, where he cautions them to retain their principles of "honor and justice" over "fat and ease" in trying to seek world peace.[250]
  • January 11 – Informed sources familiar with American policy deny the chances of a meeting between high-level officials of the United States and Red China that would entail the countries discussing a Korean settlement.[251]
  • January 11 – California Senator William Knowland proposes a six-to-one ratio arming Western Europe against Communist aggression that would ultimately see the US furnishing 10 divisions and grant the other North Atlantic nations 60.[252]
  • January 12 – Senator Robert Taft says the Truman administration has ended bipartisan foreign policy with President Truman's declaration that he would consult Congress in sending troops to Europe but would not be bound to do so.[253]
  • January 12 – Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg testifies to Congress over President Truman's increase in American fighting forces.[254]
  • January 12 – President Truman signs the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 into law. President Truman says the legislation is intended to protects Americans in the event of enemy assault and "affords the basic framework for preparations to minimize the effects of an attack on our civilian population, and to deal with the immediate emergency conditions which such an attack would create."[255]
  • January 12 – President Truman transmits the fifth annual Economic Report to Congress in a message all the while stressing the need for unity for the United States to prosper on the economic front.[256]
  • January 15 – The White House announces that James G. McDonald has resigned as
    United States Ambassador to Israel and President Truman has responded by nominating Monnett B. Davis as his successor.[257]
  • January 15 – President Truman sends a budget message to Congress on an appropriation for flood control and river harbor projects.[258]
  • January 17 – Republican Senators Irving Ives and Andrew Frank Schoeppel demand that President Truman's defense housing program have a minimum of inflationary aspects and Congress must prevent the American economy from being dangerously strained by the program.[259]
  • January 17 – Chairman of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Karl T. Compton calls on Congress to adopt the Truman administration-backed Universal Military Service and Training Program and advocates for an alternate service for those unable to meet the physical or mental qualifications of the service.[260]
  • January 20 – The United States demands in a resolution that China be named as the aggressor in Korea by the United Nations and that the time had come to draw the line in regard to free nations while admitting the door to a peace settlement with the UN was still possible.[261]
  • January 20 – General Douglas MacArthur says the western powers are in charge of what they want to do in the war with Communist China during a visit to Eighth Army Headquarters.[262]
  • January 22 – General Omar Bradley testifies before the Senate preparedness subcommittee on his view that the American military is ready to "avert disaster" for the United States.[263]
  • January 22 – Chairman of the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee Brien McMahon calls for a 50 billion global peace plan and requests it be added to a Senate resolution seeking friendship for the Russians, adding that the United States was losing ground in its battle for the minds of men.[264]
  • January 23 – President Truman signs Executive Order 10207, forming the President's Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights in addition to outlining its purpose and its membership of "a Chairman, a Vice Chairman, and seven other members" that are to be appointed by the president.[265]
  • January 24 – President Truman attends a dinner in honor of his banker Joshua Evans at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington.[266]
  • January 25 – President Truman holds his two hundred and fifty-third news conference in the Indian Treaty Room in the Executive Office Building. President Truman begins the conference with an address on U.S. Representative to the United Nations
    Warren R. Austin conveying American government views on Communist China and announces appointments to the President's Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights.[267]
  • January 25 – President Truman signs Executive Order 10208, authorizing the Secretary of State "to perform the functions and exercise the powers and authority vested in the President by the Yugoslav Emergency Relief Assistance Act of 1950."[268]
  • January 27 – President Truman issues a memorandum to executive department and agency leadership on the need for support of "the economic stabilization orders issued today" and provides three steps the agencies should work in alignment with under the law.[269]
  • January 30 – President Truman attends a special ceremony in honor of Sam Rayburn serving longer as Speaker of the House of Representatives than any other individual in American history in his White House office.[270]
  • January 30 – President Truman and French Prime Minister Pleven issue a joint statement on their agreements over the course of their conference as well as an outline of various issues afflicting the international community such as problems in the Far East, Europe issues, defense plans for the Atlantic, and economic dilemmas.[271]
  • January 31 – In a letter to Director of the Bureau of the Budget, citing a period of national emergency, President Truman requests the establishment of "a Federal history program for all the agencies engaged in emergency activities" and furthers that the "active direction of the program should be undertaken by the Bureau of the Budget, although the preparation of the studies themselves should be carried out by the individual agencies."[272]
  • January 31 – President Truman attends a dinner for the Democratic National Congressional Committee in the Caucus Room of the Congressional Hotel in Washington.[273]

February

  • February 27 – In a message to Congress, President Truman addresses the "very large deficits" arising for the United States postal service and advocates that Congress "correct the present unsound condition of the postal revenues."[274]
  • February 27 – President Truman delivers remarks to a group from the 82d Airborne Division in the Rose Garden.[275]
  • February 27 – President Truman delivers broadcast remarks on the role of Red Cross in expressing "our basic national ideal of giving a helping hand to others" during the morning.[276]
  • February 28 – In a statement, President Truman notes the upcoming thirty-ninth anniversary of the establishment of the Girl Scouts and that since then "more than a million and a half girls in the United States taking part in the Girl Scout program".[277]

March

  • March 2 – The Defense Department is reported to have informed Congress of its expectation to have six American divisions in Europe by the beginning of July 1952 in the event that war does not break out.[278]
  • March 3 – In a statement, Republican Senator James P. Kem labels the Reconstruction Finance Corporation as "corrupt" in addition to demanding Congress abolish the corporation and charging President Truman with seemingly being unwilling to reform the agency.[279]
  • March 3 – The Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Board announce a settlement in their conflict on the settling of inflation.[280]
  • March 3 – The United States offers the United Nations permission to count both its armed forces and non-atomic weapons in addition to calling on Russia to do the same.[281]
  • March 3 – Representative
    Frederic René Coudert Jr. states his intent to introduce a constitutional amendment the following week that if enacted would allow Congress to vote the president out of office with two-thirds a vote by calling for the president to resign immediately or call for a national election for the president, vice president, or Congress.[282]
  • March 5 – The United States Navy denies through a spokesman that President Truman has ordered a special guard against submarines in the Gulf of Mexico.[283]
  • March 24 – President Truman signs Executive Order 10227, extending the provisions of Part I of Executive Order 10210 "to the General Services Administration; and, subject to the limitations and regulations contained in such part, and under such regulations as he may prescribe, the Administrator of General Services is authorized to perform and exercise, as to the General Services Administration, all the functions and authority vested in and granted by the said Part I to the Secretaries named therein".[284]
  • March 26 – President Truman delivers remarks at the opening of the meeting between the Foreign Ministers of the American Republics during an afternoon appearance in Constitution Hall.[285]
  • March 26 – In a statement, President Truman says the enactment of H.R. 2268 "will be a great convenience to Series E Savings Bond holders who desire to retain their investments in E bonds" and the legislation's authority will grant the owners of maturing Series E bonds the option of keeping the bonds and earning interest over the period of the next ten years.[286]
  • March 26 – President Truman signs Executive Order 10228, designating the Inter-American Defense Board "as a public international organization entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities conferred by the said International Organizations Immunities Act."[287]

April

  • April 5 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death following their convictions on conspiring to provide secret information to the Soviet Union.[162]
  • April 11 – Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of all posts as commander of American and U.N. forces in the Far East for making statements critical of the government's military and foreign policies in that area. MacArthur replaced by Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway.[288]

August

  • August 1 – In a statement, President Truman announces his intent to create "a new independent agency whose sole job will be to procure and to increase the supply of critical and strategic materials at home and abroad" that will be called the Defense Materials Procurement Agency.[289]
  • August 1 – The Defense Department calls for a draft of 41,000 men during the upcoming October for enlistment in the Marine Corps and Army, the Marine Corps' first draft since the start of the Korean campaign.[290]
  • August 1 – President Truman signs a proclamation cutting off American tariffs concessions to Czechoslovakia, marking the second time the federal government has retaliated against the country since the April arrest of William N. Oatis.[291]
  • August 1 – President Truman delivers remarks to the delegates of Girls Nation in the Rose Garden.[292]
  • August 3 – In a statement, The State Department confirms William O'Dwyer transferred a million dollars from Mexico to New York as part of a transaction between the Mexican and American governments and the transfer was conducted in normal conditions.[293]
  • August 3 – The Wage Stabilization Board recommends all workers receive living wage increases.[294]
  • August 3 – The Air Force announces its sending of the first wing of the F-86 fighter interceptors to England and that the departure can be expected soon.[295]
  • August 6 – President Truman meets with Democratic National Committee Chairman William M. Boyle, Jr., Boyle afterward confirming his intent to remain as chairman at least until the end of his term.[296]
  • August 10 – The State Department announces its belief that Russia is tightening around Communist Poland and that the Polish government has ordered a cessation of American cultural activities in Poland without alternative to complying with the order.[297]
  • August 10 – Senator Joseph McCarthy offers allowing "a good Democrat" head a committee to see who is correct in his feud with the State Department and other senators over his allegations of communism in the government.[298]
  • August 10 – Aides to President Truman state that he is personally gathering facts on the methods used in the recruitment of high school players for the Military and Naval Academies.[299]
  • August 11 – The California Democratic Party endorses Truman for re-election after the executive committee of the Democratic State Central Committee votes for a resolution giving state election codes the power to become a state campaign committee for a party's presidential candidate.[300]
  • August 13 – Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland sets October 1 as the target date for Congress being adjourned.[301]
  • August 13 – The Senate Finance Committee begins closed door consideration for the tax bill.[302]
  • August 20 – In a message to Congress, President Truman requests additional funding to provide relief for the Midwest following it being stricken by a flood disaster.[303]
  • August 20 – In a message to Congress, President Truman transmits "herewith the resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, together with the accompanying letter from Mr. Shvernik."[304]
  • August 21 – In a statement, President Truman says the enactment of H.R. 3795 "marks the fact that a significant turn of events has been reached in the relations between the United States and the Ute Indians" and allows for "a program for use of the share awarded to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation" that will grant parts of the compensation to the Ute Indians.[305]
  • August 24 – The United States declines calls by Czechoslovakia to curb broadcasts of American-operated radio Europe.[306]
  • August 24 – Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee
    Richard Russell, Jr. reports that President Truman called him to the White House to discuss a number of issues and predicts the congressional cut to the administration's foreign aid bill is going to remain in spite of Truman's opposition.[307]
  • August 30 – President Truman signs Executive Order 10283, establishing "a Board of Inquiry, consisting of such members as I shall appoint, to inquire into the issues involved in" labor disputes.[308]
  • August 31 – President Truman attends the presentation of a Floral Replica of a Defense Bond in the Rose Garden.[309]

November

  • November 1 – The White House announces President Truman's intent to recommend to Congress collectors of internal revenue being bought under Civil Service.[310]
  • November 1 – American army forces are exposed to an atomic blast for the first time in Las Vegas, the blast going off without casualty.[311]
  • November 1 – Elizabeth II places a wreath on the grave of George Washington at Mount Vernon during a ceremony.[312]
  • November 5 – The United States is reported to have proposed a worldwide census, one of the issues being a complete accounting for all atomic weapons through a strict system of verification.[313]
  • November 5 – President Truman meets with General Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington for a discussion on Western defense issues and an upcoming foreign policy speech by Truman.[314]
  • November 5 – Wyoming Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney confirms his cautioning of Defense Secretary Lovett and Pentagon officials about the need to cut the following year's military spending so that the pattern of tax revenues will remain consistent.[315]
  • November 6 – President Truman delivers a speech to the National Society of Cartoonist. He notably addresses the previous day's meeting with Eisenhower, saying it was in regards to Europe maintaining economic stability while rearming and that Eisenhower was fearful of "much trouble".[316]

1952 – January 1953

1953

  • January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th president of the United States, at noon EST.

See also

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  147. ^ Approval of Strike Bill is Refused (March 4, 1946)
  148. ^ Streamlined Congress Is Advocated (March 4, 1946)
  149. ^ Chinese Reject Russian Plan For Manchuria (March 5, 1946)
  150. ^ Franco Hits Quit 'Order' (March 5, 1946)
  151. ^ Hoover Accepts Bid of Truman to Survey Food Needs in Europe (March 5, 1946)
  152. ^ Senate Group Quickly Approves J. A. Krug (March 5, 1946)
  153. ^ GOP Drafts Housing Plan (March 5, 1946)
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  164. ^ U.S. Delays Farm Co-op Tax Plan (November 4, 1947)
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  169. ^ "Marshall Says Reds' Bloc Will 'Sabotage' His Aid Plan". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. January 8, 1948.
  170. ^ U.S. Transfers Subs to Turkey (January 9, 1948)
  171. ^ FBI Reports 11 Resign Places (January 12, 1948)
  172. ^ Congress Is Given Record Budget (January 12, 1948)
  173. ^ Truman to Ask For Oil Saving (January 15, 1948)
  174. ^ Truman Hits Kuter Action (January 16, 1948)
  175. ^ Vanderberg Urges Watch (January 16, 1948)
  176. ^ Snyder Hits Truman Veto Of Tax Slash (January 16, 1948)
  177. ^ Power Extension Urged by Krug (January 16, 1948)
  178. ^ Truman Asks Extension of Highway Aid (February 9, 1948)
  179. ^ Truman Plans 5-Day Tour in Caribbean (February 9, 1948)
  180. ^ House Group Rejects USES Transfer Plan (February 9, 1948)
  181. ^ Truman Joins Officials In Prayer Service (January 3, 1949)
  182. ^ GOP 'Old Guard' Crushes Rebellion (January 3, 1949)
  183. ^ Rayburn Sees Truman Path Made Easier (January 4, 1949)
  184. ^ President Proposes Legislation to Carry Out Campaign Pledges (January 5, 1949)
  185. ^ Marshall Quits as Secretary of State (January 7, 1949)
  186. ^ 'Two Package' Labor Programs Favored by Five Senators (January 8, 1949)
  187. ^ Army Cancels Draft Calls For 2 Months (January 9, 1949)
  188. ^ Vast Debt Boost Seen (January 9, 1949)
  189. ^ Symington Again Uses Preparation (January 9, 1949)
  190. ^ Arms Aid Goes To Pact Group (January 14, 1949)
  191. ^ Acheson Given Okay In Senate Committee Meeting Today (January 14, 1949)
  192. ^ Phone Monopoly Faces 2 Firms (January 14, 1949)
  193. ^ Donaldson Nomination Is Sent to Senate (February 1, 1949)
  194. ^ U.S. Labor Mediation Service Hit (February 1, 1949)
  195. ^ U.S. Stands By Western Associates (February 3, 1949)
  196. ^ Jap Hopes Truman Will Visit Stalin (February 3, 1949)
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  198. ^ "Rent Boosts Seen Without Control Law". Reading Eagle. February 7, 1949.
  199. ^ Hungary Asks Recall of U.S. Envoy; Truman and Acheson Assailed (February 12, 1949)
  200. ^ North American Defense Discussed (February 12, 1949)
  201. ^ B-36 Called 'Perfect Vehicle' To Deliver A-Bombs Everywhere (February 12, 1949)
  202. ^ Salary Boost Is Asked For Military (February 21, 1949)
  203. ^ Report Urges Changes In State Dept. (February 21, 1949)
  204. ^ U.S. to Pledge To Resist Aggression (February 21, 1949)
  205. ^ Higher Job Roster Seen (April 1, 1949)
  206. ^ U.S. Reassurances Reds Alliance Is Defensive (April 1, 1949)
  207. ^ Royall Meets Truman; Silent on Resignation (April 1, 1949)
  208. ^ "Tobin Sets $1.05 Minimum Pay". Reading Eagle. April 14, 1949.
  209. ^ "Foreign Aid Bill Passed". Reading Eagle. April 14, 1949.
  210. ^ Truman May Forego Rest (June 2, 1949)
  211. ^ UN Proposes Help For 'Poor' Countries (June 2, 1949)
  212. ^ Isotopes Sent To Norway, Senator Charges In Probe (June 8, 1949)
  213. ^ Acheson Demands Deadline On Full Blockade Lifting (June 8, 1949)
  214. ^ Taft Says Demos Playing Politics (June 8, 1949)
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  216. ^ McCarthy Says Truman's Remark Endorses All General's Deals (September 1, 1949)
  217. ^ Truman Sees War Of Nerves Slackening (September 1, 1949)
  218. ^ Maneuvers Set in Arctic (September 1, 1949)
  219. ^ Truman Seen Signing Bill (September 2, 1949)
  220. ^ Reputed Slot King May Face Quiz (September 2, 1949)
  221. ^ Tariff Cut Fight Looms (September 2, 1949)
  222. ^ Johnson Plane Order Flayed by Senator (September 3, 1949)
  223. ^ Senate Faces Trade Fight (September 4, 1949)
  224. ^ New Money Plan Framed by British (September 6, 1949)
  225. ^ MacArthur Replies To Huber Report (September 6, 1949)
  226. ^ Truman's Plans for '50 Outlined by Advisors (September 6, 1949)
  227. ^ President Previews '50 Program (December 22, 1949)
  228. ^ Export Rules Tightened (December 22, 1949)
  229. ^ Bold Action Suggested To Oppose Red Invasion Plan (January 1, 1950)
  230. ^ President Spends First Day of Year in Church (January 1, 1950)
  231. ^ Early Approval of Gigantic Money Measures Seen in Senate (January 1, 1950)
  232. ^ Truman To Ask Mine Seizure in Message To Congress Late Today (March 3, 1950)
  233. ^ Senate Group Defers Action on Seizure Bill (March 3, 1950)
  234. ^ Permanent Armory Scheduled For Reading in Reserve Plan (March 3, 1950)
  235. ^ U.S. Building Defenses, Bradley Says (March 8, 1950)
  236. ^ State Dept. Aide Named In 'Spy' Probe (March 8, 1950)
  237. ^ House Seeks Compromise Controls Bill (August 8, 1950)
  238. ^ Truman Drafts Capitol Message (August 8, 1950)
  239. ^ General Manager Of AEC Resigns (August 8, 1950)
  240. ^ Every U.S. Red Potential Spy, FBI Chief Says (August 8, 1950)
  241. ^ Truman Signs Anti-Slot Bill (January 2, 1951)
  242. ^ Great "Home Front" Powers Given To Gov't (January 2, 1951)
  243. ^ Truman Feels Price Controls Not Yet Needed (January 4, 1951)
  244. ^ Congress Will Be Asked To Extend Time For Draftees (January 4, 1951)
  245. ^ Eisenhower Leaves U.S. To Shore Up Europe's Might (January 7, 1951)
  246. ^ More Senators Are Demanding Real Controls (January 7, 1951)
  247. ^ Truman, Harry S. (January 8, 1951). "4 – Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union".
  248. ^ McCarthy Asks How Pearson Gets Secrets (January 9, 1951)
  249. ^ Truman, Harry S. (January 10, 1951). "6 – Remarks at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award Ceremonies". American Presidency Project.
  250. ^ Truman, Harry S. (January 11, 1951). "8 – Remarks at a Buffet Supper for Democratic Members of Congress". American Presidency Project.
  251. ^ U.S. Rejection Of Commonwealth Korean Plan Seen (January 11, 1951)
  252. ^ Six-To-One Ratio For West Europe Defense Proposed (January 11, 1951)
  253. ^ Taft Declares Bi-partisan Foreign Policy Is At End (January 12, 1951)
  254. ^ Manpower Goal For Armed Forces Is Boasted 260,000 (January 12, 1951)
  255. ^ Truman, Harry S. (January 12, 1950). "10 – Statement by the President Upon Signing the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950". American Presidency Project.
  256. ^ Truman, Harry S. (January 12, 1951). "11 – Annual Message to the Congress: The President's Economic Report".
  257. ^ Envoy To Israel Resigns Post (January 15, 1951)
  258. ^ Budget Provides Flood Control (January 15, 1951)
  259. ^ "Inflationary" Housing Plans Are Hit By GOP (January 17, 1951)
  260. ^ Morse Backing Pentagon Plan To Draft Boys (January 17, 1951)
  261. ^ U.S. Demands Naming China As Aggressor (January 21, 1951)
  262. ^ Time For West To Put Up or Shut Up, View (January 21, 1951)
  263. ^ Bradley Says U.S. Trying To Avert Disaster (January 22, 1951)
  264. ^ McMahon States U.S. Losing War For Men's Minds (January 22, 1951)
  265. ^ Truman, Harry S. (January 23, 1951). "Executive Order 10207—Establishing the President's Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights". American Presidency Project.
  266. ^ Truman, Harry S. (January 24, 1951). "21 – Remarks at a Dinner in Honor of Joshua Evans". American Presidency Project.
  267. ^ Truman, Harry S. (January 25, 1951). "22 – The President's News Conference". American Presidency Project.
  268. ^ Truman, Harry S. (January 25, 1951). "Executive Order 10208—Providing for the Administration of the Yugoslav Emergency Relief Assistance Act of 1950". American Presidency Project.
  269. ^ Truman, Harry S. "23 – Memorandum Urging Agency Cooperation in Enforcing Price and Wage Stabilization Orders". American Presidency Project.
  270. ^ Truman, Harry S. "24 – Remarks at a Special Ceremony for Sam Rayburn".
  271. ^ Truman, Harry S. (January 30, 1951). "25 – Joint Statement Following Discussions With Prime Minister Pleven of France". American Presidency Project.
  272. ^ Truman, Harry S. (January 31, 1951). "26 – Letter to the Director, Bureau of the Budget, on the Establishment of a Federal History Program". American Presidency Project.
  273. ^ Truman, Harry S. "27 – Remarks at the Democratic National Congressional Committee Dinner". American Presidency Project.
  274. ^ Truman, Harry S. (February 27, 1951). "45 – Special Message to the Congress on Increasing the Postal Rates". American Presidency Project.
  275. ^ Truman, Harry S. (February 27, 1951). "46 – Remarks to a Group From the 82d Airborne Division". American Presidency Project.
  276. ^ Truman, Harry S. (February 27, 1951). "47 – Radio and Television Remarks Opening the Red Cross Campaign". American Presidency Project.
  277. ^ Truman, Harry S. "48 – Statement by the President on the 39th Anniversary of the Founding of the Girl Scouts". American Presidency Project.
  278. ^ Six Americans Divisions To Europe By 1952 (March 1, 1951)
  279. ^ Kem Demands Abolition Of RFC At Once (March 3, 1951)
  280. ^ U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Quit Bickering (March 3, 1951)
  281. ^ U.S. Dares Russia To Arms Census (March 4, 1951)
  282. ^ Proposes Curb on President (March 4, 1951)
  283. ^ No Gulf Sub Guard Ordered (March 5, 1951)
  284. ^ Truman, Harry S. (March 24, 1951). "Executive Order 10227—Extension of the Provisions of Part I of Executive Order No. 10210 of February 2, 1951, to the General Services Administration". American Presidency Project.
  285. ^ Truman, Harry S. (March 26, 1951). "59 – Address Opening the Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the American Republics". American Presidency Project.
  286. ^ Truman, Harry S. (March 26, 1951). "60 – Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill Extending the Interest-Bearing Life of Matured Savings Bonds". American Presidency Project.
  287. ^ Truman, Harry S. (March 26, 1951). "Executive Order 10228—Designating the Inter-American Defense Board as a Public International Organization Entitled to Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions and Immunities". American Presidency Project.
  288. ^ "Truman: Chronology 1949–53". www.trumanlibrary.org. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
  289. ^ Truman, Harry S. (August 1, 1951). "177 – Statement by the President Announcing His Intention To Establish the Defense Materials Procurement Agency". American Presidency Project.
  290. ^ 41,000 Draft Quota Is Set For October (August 1, 1951)
  291. ^ U.S. Reprisals Against Czechs Will Hit Trade (August 1, 1951)
  292. ^ Truman, Harry S. (August 1, 1951). "178 – Remarks to Delegates of Girls Nation". American Presidency Project.
  293. ^ U.S. Explains O'Dwyer Deal For Million (August 3, 1951)
  294. ^ WSB Thaws Wage Freeze (August 3, 1951)
  295. ^ Fastest Planes Go To England (August 3, 1951)
  296. ^ Boyle Says He Won't Quit Democratic Post (August 6, 1951)
  297. ^ Reds Tighten Iron Curtain Around Poland (August 10, 1951)
  298. ^ Senator Names Alleged Reds (August 10, 1951)
  299. ^ Truman Investigating West Point Football (August 10, 1951)
  300. ^ Ike May Get GOP Vote In Minnesota (August 13, 1951)
  301. ^ Senate Leader Plans October 1 Adjournment (August 13, 1951)
  302. ^ Senate Takes Up $7 Billion Tax Bill Boost (August 13, 1951)
  303. ^ Truman, Harry S. (August 20, 1951). "196 – Special Message to the Congress Requesting Additional Funds for the Rehabilitation of the Flood Stricken Areas of the Midwest". American Presidency Project.
  304. ^ Truman, Harry S. (August 20, 1951). "197 – Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Soviet Reply to the Resolution of Friendship Adopted by the U.S. Congress". American Presidency Project.
  305. ^ Truman, Harry S. (August 21, 1951). "198 – Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill Relating to the Tribal Funds of the Ute Indian Tribe". American Presidency Project.
  306. ^ U.S. Spurns Note From Czech Reds (August 24, 1951)
  307. ^ Senator Says Foreign Aid Cut Will Stick (August 24, 1951)
  308. ^ Truman, Harry S. (August 30, 1951). "Executive Order 10283—Creating a Board of Inquiry To Report on Certain Labor Disputes Affecting the Copper and Non-Ferrous Metals Industry". American Presidency Project.
  309. ^ Truman, Harry S. (August 31, 1951). "210 – Remarks at the Presentation of a Floral Replica of a Defense Bond". American Presidency Project.
  310. ^ Truman Seeks U.S. 'Integrity' (November 1, 1951)
  311. ^ Troops Witness Pane Cracking Atomic Blast (November 1, 1951)
  312. ^ Princess Sees Mount Vernon; Leaves Wreath (November 1, 1951)
  313. ^ U.S. Proposes World Wide Army Census (November 5, 1951)
  314. ^ Truman And Ike Discuss Defense, Red Settlement (November 5, 1951)
  315. ^ Senator Declares U.S. Has Reached Tax Limit (November 5, 1951)
  316. ^ Ike Leaves After Talks With Truman (November 6, 1951)
  317. ^ Young, Robert (January 3, 1952). "New Scandal! Fire 53 More Tax Aids". Chicago Tribune.
  318. ^ The President's News Conference (January 3, 1952)[permanent dead link]
  319. ^ Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union (January 9, 1952)[permanent dead link]
  320. ^ 7. The President's News Conference (January 10, 1952)[permanent dead link]
  321. ^ 9. Statement by the President on Civil Defense (January 12, 1952)[permanent dead link]
  322. ^ 10. Message to the Congress Transmitting First Report on Inclusion of Escape Clauses in Trade Agreements (January 14, 1952)[permanent dead link]
  323. ^ Statement by the President on the 69th Anniversary of the Civil Service System (January 16, 1952)[permanent dead link]
  324. ^ 15. Annual Message to the Congress: The President's Economic Report (January 16, 1952)[permanent dead link]
  325. ^ Joint Statement Following Discussions With Prime Minister Churchill Concerning the Atlantic Command (January 18, 1952)[permanent dead link]
  326. ^ Snyder Takes Up Fight For Tax Reorganization (March 3, 1952)
  327. ^ Supreme Court Okehs Anti-Red Teacher Law (March 3, 1952)
  328. ^ "Solon Says Truman Seeks Re-Election". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. June 1, 1952.
  329. ^ Wage Board Head Quits In Protest To HST Approval (December 4, 1952)
  330. ^ It's Up To Ike Now; No Further Moves On War In Korea Planned (December 4, 1952)

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