All 15 Uses
Harry S. Truman
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- —HARRY TRUMAN IN THE SPRING OF 1998, six boys called to me from half a century ago on a distant mountain and I went there.†
Chpt 1. *
- And the Treasury Department did not believe in a gradual start: On the following day the three were to meet the new President, Harry Truman, in the White House.†
Chpt 15.
- The boys presented Mr. Truman with the "first" copy of the official Bond Tour poster in a gold frame.†
Chpt 15.
- Truman, smiling, asked the boys to point themselves out on the poster as photographers clicked off photo after photo—front-page news for the next day and publicity beyond value for the Seventh Bond Tour.†
Chpt 15.
- At the end of the boys' meeting with Harry Truman, Treasury Secretary Morgenthau lingered with the new President—just long enough to present him with some dire numbers.†
Chpt 15.
- Doc Bradley, Harry Truman, Rene Gagnon, and Ira Hayes with the Seventh Bond Tour poster.†
Chpt 15.
- Their admirers crowded the lobby, gaping at the boys beneath a huge enlargement of Rosenthal's photograph, which had been wedged between smaller portraits of Roosevelt and Truman.†
Chpt 16.
- At the beginning of June, President Truman had announced doubling to seven million the troop strength pitted against Japan—higher than the U.S. deployment in Europe at its peak.†
Chpt 16.
- On June 18, Truman's military advisers presented the President with horrifying projections: Up to 35 percent—nearly 270,000—of these men would be killed or wounded in the first thirty days of fighting.†
Chpt 16.
- The fireworks filled the night sky with the outlines of the American flag, the face of President Truman, and the Iwo Jima flagraising scene.†
Chpt 16.
- In late July, the Big Three leaders of the Allied nations—Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Harry Truman of the United States, and Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union—met in Potsdam to map out the closure of the Pacific War.†
Chpt 17.
- Churchill, Truman, and their aides conferred discreetly on one further, just-emerging alternative: the one whose detritus still floated in the high winds above the testing ground at Alamogordo Air Base in New Mexico, where it had fissioned into human history only days earlier, at five-thirty A.M., on July 16.†
Chpt 17.
- At mail call, Ira Hayes received an imposing package: a commemorative sheet of flagraiser stamps signed by President Truman, Commandant Vandegrift, and John Bradley.†
Chpt 17.
- One visitor, in the fall of 1948, was Harry S. Truman, storming through his legendary reelection campaign.†
Chpt 18.
- As he took leave of Mike's parents, Truman noticed young Mary standing quietly by the door.†
Chpt 18.
Definitions:
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(1)
(Harry S. Truman) 33rd U.S. president, who took office at the end of World War II, authorized the use of atomic bombs on Japan, and led early Cold War efforts to contain communism (1884-1972)Truman became president in 1945 when Franklin D. Roosevelt died, and later won election in his own right in 1948. He made the decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hoping to force Japan’s surrender and avoid a long, bloody invasion. After the war, he helped shape U.S. policy in the early Cold War, announcing the Truman Doctrine to "contain" the spread of communism and supporting European recovery through the Marshall Plan and the formation of NATO.
At home, Truman ordered the desegregation of the U.S. armed forces and faced major labor and economic challenges after the war. He also led the United States into the Korean War and made the controversial decision to remove General Douglas MacArthur from command when MacArthur publicly challenged presidential policy. -
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, Truman can refer to anyone with that name.