truman

     

==People with the surname Truman==

Trivia about truman

  • Hometown: Lamar, Missouri;Religious Views: Baptist
  • In 1966 this former president was the very first recipient of a Medicare card
  • In 1949 he presented his "Fair Deal" as part of his State of the Union address
  • McCullough gave this 33rd U.S. president the biography treatment in 1992 & won a Pulitzer for his efforts
  • (Sofia is at Fort McHanry in Baltimore.) In 1948 he issued a proclamation that the flag fly over Fort McHenry 24 hours a day, as a perpetual symbol of our patriotism
  • On Oct. 5, 1947 he gave the first presidential address televised from the White House
  • After his haberdashery failed in 1922, it took him 3 years to pay back creditors
  • On March 29, 1952 he surprised Democratic leaders by saying he would not seek re-election
  • Thomas J. Pendergast, boss of Kansas City, launched the political career of this future president in 1922
  • He railed against the “do-nothing 80th congress” during his whistle-stop campaign
  • He wrote more than 1,300 letters to Bess; their 9-year courtship was called his longest campaign
  • He was a judge of the Jackson County Court in Missouri
  • ARM NUT
  • A gallon of regular held steady at 27 cents from 1949 through 1952--pretty much this guy's whole second term
  • Sherman Minton was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1949 by this president
  • His inauguration was the first to be televised
  • Signs the U.N. charter in San Francisco
  • ...the Communist People's Republic of China was founded
  • Alben Barkley
  • The Kansas City political machine of Boss Tom Pendergast launched the career of this future president