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...(I suggest Harry Truman, the president at the time, was the most powerful human being who has ever lived.)...
...Harry Truman, to whom it fell to use the “gadget”, is the more dramatic figure, precisely because he made what might be the most history-altering executive decision since Pontius Pilate without much in the...
...In Janan Ganesh’s opinion piece about how maybe Harry Truman would be a better candidate for changing the world than J Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s film, there is one significant...
...To build on Andy Haldane’s excellent observation that the most powerful thing a powerful person can do is give away power, I will add Harry Truman: it is amazing what you can accomplish when you do not care...
...Harry S Truman famously branded Congress as “do nothing” in 1948. To be fair, the then Republicans were obstructing the Democrats’ agenda because they disagreed with it....
...Gideon Rachman’s thoughtful column “Oppenheimer, Israel and the laws of war” (Opinion, November 21) refers to American President Harry Truman’s claim that the nuclear bombing of Japan was “needed to end...
...The death of the Queen removed a much-loved figure who had been a constant presence in British life, outlasting 15 prime ministers and charming US presidents from Harry Truman to Joe Biden....
...Iris also worked on various design restoration projects across curtains, furniture, draperies and other fabrics for nine US presidents and their spouses, including Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F...
...Harry S Truman stormed the beaches at Iwo Jima at 60. Or was that John Wayne?...
...The likes of Truman Capote — the writer at the centre of the current fashiony Ryan Murphy mini series Feud: Capote vs The Swans — frequently appeared in Vogue, as did Joan Didion, who was also the star of...
...In order to complement Paul Guinnessy’s excellent comment about President Harry Truman’s responsibilities for the decision to drop nuclear bombs in the second world war (Letters, August 2), I want to point...
...Thankfully for America, FDR replaced Wallace with Harry S Truman just a few months before he passed away. Will explains just how close a call this was. Wallace was a fan of Stalin....
...Postwar German authorities wrote protest letters about the decision to US authorities, and even to President Harry Truman, but never laid any formal claim to the statue....
...I’m wondering if Biden might start using the Harry Truman “Do Nothing Congress” line soon, since this is the most unproductive Congress in several decades in terms of the amount of legislation that they...
...There are plenty of counterfactuals here (not only Biden and Obama, but also John F Kennedy and Harry Truman)....
...From Harry Truman to Barack Obama, every US president based their foreign policy on a network of global alliances — in particular Nato and the US-Japan security treaty....
...Or was President Harry Truman right to call him a “crybaby” — for regretting the last act of savagery needed to end a savage war? Hollywood may be undecided. But international law is clear....
...To adapt Harry S Truman’s attributed saying that it’s amazing what you can accomplish if you don’t mind who gets the credit, it’s sadly striking how little happens if you can’t agree who takes the blame....
...He stands out much more now than in his own time, when non-graduates weren’t rare (Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, Ernest Bevin)....
...President Harry Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur over careless talk of war with China....
...In 1952, US President Harry S Truman observed: “If it’s a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time”....
...Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden all made their careers in the Senate — and lacked the charisma and ivy-league gloss of the presidents they worked for....
...Harry S Truman was returned to office in 1948, though it was a close-run election (and the Chicago Tribune famously miscalled it for Thomas Dewey)....
...Harry Truman, one of America’s best 20th-century presidents, was not even told America had an atomic bomb until after he was sworn in....
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