Comments about Harry S. Truman? I was just reading about him.
1. He used the A-bomb on Japan, ending WWII.
2. He pushed for the hydrogen bomb after that.
3. The United Nations and NATO were created during his term.
4. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 and reorganized military forces by creating the Department of Defense, the CIA, U.S. Air Force (separate from the U.S. Army Air Forces), and the National Security Council.
5. Truman, who had been a supporter of the Zionist movement as early as 1939, was a key figure in the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.
6. Truman recognized the State of Israel 11 minutes after it declared itself a nation on May 14, 1948
Doesn't it feel like we're now struggling with most of what he created?
2006-08-23
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