On this day we did blog discussion over the presidents. Here are the notes I took:
Harry Truman: Vice-President who became president after FDR's death in 1945. He was born in Missouri and was a former senator. Very unpopular president. In the election of 1948, he focused on how he improved government and how improvement will come with him. He won, even though he was unpopular. Thomas Dewey and Strunther both lost. False advertising told Truman that he had lost, but Truman won eventually.
Accomplishments: Integgrated the black and white troops. Passed the Marshall Plan and Truman Docterine where he helped Greece and Italy and Marshall Plan helping the European countries stopping communism. Created the CIA, Central Intelligence Agency. Transfering from war time to peace time. We went through a recession but not another depression. Also famous for deciding to drop the atomic bomb. Coined the phrase "the buck stops here". Passed the Fair Deal, a kind of extention to the New Deal. Berlin Air Lift happened while he was president. The inception of NATO happened as well, McCarthyism, and the Korean War.
Dwight Eisenhower: General of WWII. Famous for D-Day invasion and nominated as a Republican canidate and won the 1952 election. Won against Addley Stephenson both in 1952 and 1956. President during the 50's where the economy was green and war was not being fought most of the time. Television rose to power and Happy Days were ours. Hmm hmm hmm. Social Security System and Minimum Wage Raising came out of his presidency. Created Health Education and Welfare and Federal Aid Highway Act was passed. Did not want to go to war unless it was a nuclear war, which he never did.
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