Kenneth Dantzler Corbin

President Harry S. Truman Kenneth Dantzler Corbin

This is about Harry S. Truman was the United States' 33rd President, who served from 1945 to 1953. He replaced Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President after his tenure as the 34th Vice President. The people elected him to the United States Senate from Missouri in 1934 and served as head of the Truman Committee, which sought to eliminate wartime contracts' corruption and inefficiency. Truman, as a Wilsonian internationalist, backed Roosevelt's stance in favor of the UN's establishment. He battled the Soviet Union by enlarging the Soviet Union's area of control in Eastern Europe. Truman and his foreign policy advisers were adamant in their opposition to the USSR. Truman enacted the 1947 National Security Act as part of the United States Cold War policy. Truman remembered Israel against Secretary of State George Marshall's objections. Truman put a second-floor balcony to the south portico of the White House in 1948, which became known as the Truman Balcony. Truman empowered the United States' cryptologic elements in 1952 by establishing the National Security Agency. Truman sent the US Navy's Seventh Fleet into the Taiwan Strait in 1950, after the war outbreak in Korea. Truman's wife Bess died in 1982 and is buried in Independence, Missouri, at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. Truman's decision to suppress the naval carrier arm precipitated the 1949 Admirals' Revolt. The State Department's headquarters, designed in the 1930s but never named, was dedicated to the Harry Truman Building in 2000. In 1963, with Greek-Americans' contributions, a 12-foot-tall bronze statue of Truman was installed in Athens, Greece.