Truman (1945 -1953)-
- vice, then president after FDR,
- election- thought to loss but one
- 22% approved rate
Accomplishments-
- dealt with transition from wartime economy to peacetime policy
- desegregated the U.S. military
- CIA- central intelligence agency
- Berlin Airlift
- NATO established
- McCarthyism
Eisenhower (1953-1961)
- WWII general
- republican
- Nixon was his vice president
- one of the oldest
Elections
- first republican president
- talk into running for president
- against Taft for republican representative
- went for the women votes and respect
- 55.2% popular vote
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