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Three Harvard students have captured the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship for 1983 awarded annually to sophomores interested in a public service career...
...President Truman threatened to use atomic bombs if the Soviets did not withdraw their troops from Iran. In 1950, with American marines trapped by Chinese forces at Korea's Chosin reservoir. Eisenhower, trying to force a settlement in Korea, threatened the Chinese with nuclear weapons...
...Harry Truman was far more bellicose in his private notes and letters, it is now known, than he was in public. A President's private thoughts need not always influence his public actions. The speech to the evangelicals was simply Ronald Reagan opening his heart, quieting his New Right constituents with assurances of agreement that he would not make in Washington. The several political points he made in the process were secondary. The speech will provide considerable grist for the intellectual historian of half a century hence trying to discover "the real Ronald Reagan." But aside from what appears...
Ever since he beheld her curly head in an Independence, Mo., Sunday school one morning in 1890, when he was six and she was five, Harry Truman remained devoted to his beloved Bess. As a young dirt farmer in nearby Grandview, he courted her by mail, weaving words of affection amid tales of work. Over the years his work changed, but the love letters remained a constant, spinning a chronicle of changing times and undying values...
Almost 1,300 such letters have been discovered in the old Truman house in Independence. One batch has been collated by Indiana University Professor Robert Ferrell. It covers the first two years of Truman's courtship, when he described wrestling ornery calves, and the first year of his presidency, when he wrestled with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill at the Potsdam conference. The most significant revelation: Truman, contrary to some speculation, was sincere in his effort to get the Soviet Union involved in fighting Japan. Among the nuggets...