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Harry Truman
* 33rd president
* May 8th 1884 in Lamar, MO-died December 26th 1972
* Baptist
* Married June 28,1919
* Piano, avid reader, couldn’t afford to go to college
* Give Em Hell Harry
* Poor eye sight
* Ran against Thomas E. Dewey
* At the beginning he had 90% popularity and then went down in 1952, right after came back up to 31%
* Kind of thrown into presidency
* Known for dropping bombs on Nagasaki
* “The Buck Stops Here”
* Recognized Isreal for home place for Jews
* “Ended WW2 with the atomic bombs and led us into the cold war”
* Fair Deal
- Blacks
- Ed.
- Old people
- Much didn’t pass due to politics
Eisenhower
* Born in 1890
* Grew up in Abilene Kansas
* General in WW2- 5 stars
- Assumed command over NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
* 2 terms
- 1952
- 1956
- Both against Adlai Stevenson
- “I like Ike”
Accomplishments
* Desegregated the Army and Schools
* Brown vs. the board of education in Topeka, Kansas
* NASA
* Balanced the budget
* Ended the Korean War
* People to People International
* Interstate Highway System
* Civil Right Bill of 1957
* Little Rock Mob Control
* Furthered Social Security
* The Eisenhower Doctrine
* 65% Average approval rating
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