Truman Quotes
The only soldier ever so honored
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.
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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.
Referring to Harry S Truman who had run a haberdashery shop:
The 1948 Truman presidential campaign
The only soldier ever so honored
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.
