Harry S. Truman Quotes
The Korean War armistice left a vulnerable border between North and South Korea and approximately 40,000 American troops were necessary for decades thereafter to protect the border.
The only soldier ever so honored
The General’s public outburst over Truman’s Executive Order was emblematic of the military’s initial discontent with racial integration. Bradley subsequently apologized for his remarks.
Supporters of medical reform include:
When asked whether a rally in Dallas for President Harry Truman was integrated
After Harry Truman stated that certain civil rights protests were communist inspired in 1960, his former Secretary of State requested that he restrain himself on this subject. The allegations of a communist conspiracy had arisen from the FBI’s chief, J. Edgar Hoover.
Referring to Harry S Truman who had run a haberdashery shop:
While attending a meeting in Washington D.C., an Ethiopian diplomat was asked to leave his seat at a meeting for being Black.
He was then a senator. The General would not follow the President’s policy of limiting the Korean war to Korea and publicly advocated and threatened to expand the war to China. See {41470} for President Truman’s policy explanation.
Truman had no rich supporters and the radio networks, like most businesses, supported his Republican opponent, Thomas E. Dewey. They charged high rates for a campaign speech. Truman could not afford to pay for the radio speech which convinced most that he could not possibly win.
His statement was on the issuance of Executive Order 9981 which outlawed military segregation and granted equal treatment and opportunity to all service members regardless of their race:
Alexander was writing the President to accept her nomination to the Committee on Civil Rights.
Harriman was sent to Tokyo to meet with the general.
Utley made the statement on election night of 1948 when HG Kaltenborn and must other pundits observed that Truman’s early lead was not big enough to overcome the results of the rural precincts which were slower to report and most assumed went heavily for Dewey. Utley, however, had conducted his own exit poll in the Chicago region and found that people who supported Dewey, when they got into the voting booth just could not support him. He appears to be the first journalist to call the election for Truman.
