Harry S. Truman Quotes
We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
Truman, Harry S. "Address on Foreign Policy at the Navy Day Celebration in New York City." Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1945, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961, p. 433.
The Russians were breaking diplomatic relations with Israel.
Harry S. Truman was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–53). He served as a United States Senator from Missouri (1935–45) and briefly as Vice President (1945) before he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was president during the final months of World War II, and approved the plan to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman was elected in his own right in 1948. He presided over an uncertain domestic scene as America sought its path after the war and tensions with the Soviet Union increased, marking the start of the Cold War.
