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...been flying similar experimental craft during the war; then again, the wreckage may really have been extraterrestrial, and one of the aliens may have been taken into custody alive (the docudrama Roswell, which aired on Showtime in 1994, even implies that the suicide of James Forrestal, Harry Truman's Secretary of Defense, was caused by his inability to deal with the enormity of what had been communicated to him telepathically by a captured alien); government scientists may even have reverse-engineered alien technology, as Corso claims, and come up with Stealth bombers and computer chips...
...People would ask her why she was a Democrat," MacFarquhar says, "She would always point to Roosevelt and Truman...
President Conant is one of nine prominent scientists and engineers appointed by President Harry S. Truman to the general advisory committee for the Control Commission on atomic energy...
During his time at UPI, Mack says one of his most memorable interviews came when he was awakened by a six o'clock phone call in a New York City hotel room. The call came from UPI, demanding that he interview former President Harry S. Truman, who was staying in the city at the Carlisle Hotel. Truman was known to take early-morning walks through the Manhattan streets...
...later. In 1956 he turned it from a weekly into the nation's largest black daily, with a circulation of roughly 25,000. By using his influence with President Franklin Roosevelt, Sengstacke arranged for the hiring of the first black White House correspondent. After World War II, President Harry Truman appointed Sengstacke, a vocal critic of discrimination in the military, to the committee charged with eradicating race barriers in the armed forces. Sengstacke also pushed the Brooklyn Dodgers to sign Jackie Robinson. Sengstacke was considered close to Chicago's Democratic mayors, but refused Mayor Richard J. Daley's entreaties that...