Truman Administrations - Truman Becomes President
The Harry S. Truman Administrations
Harry Truman inherited the presidency from Franklin D. Roosevelt just before the end of World War II (1939–45), and made the fateful decision, three months later, to use atomic bombs to end the war against Japan. He helped create the United States's superpower role in the Cold War and led the nation into the Korean War (1950–53), while maintaining the tradition of Roosevelt's New Deal in his domestic "Fair Deal" program.
Truman Becomes President
After presiding in the Senate on Thursday, April 12, 1945, as it debated a water rights treaty with Mexico, Vice President Truman was summoned to the White House by Steve Early, President Franklin Roosevelt's press secretary. On his arrival Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, told him the president, who had been in office since 1933, had died. Truman at once telephoned...
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