Notes for Harry S Truman

Notes for Harry S Truman

!Information from James D Demarr: 1945-1953 33rd US President; Succeeded to the presidency upon the sudden death of Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945. Was reelected in 1948 over Thomas E. Dewey, Strom Thurmond, and Henry A. Wallace by a popular vote of 24,179,345 to 21,991,291 - 1,176,125, and 1,157,326, and an electoral vote of 303 to 189, 39, and 0. Was sometimes called "Give-'em-hell-Harry". Coined the phrases "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." and "The buck stops here." Gave the order to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

!page 37 of David McCullough's TRUMAN, Simon & Schuster , 1992: "Not for a month afterward, however, did Dr. Griffin bother to register the birth at the county clerk's office up the street, and even then, the child was entered nameless. In a quandary over a middle name, Mattie and John were undecided whether to honor her father or his. In the end they compromised with the letter S. It could be taken to stand for Solomon or Shipp, but actually stood for nothing, a practice not unknown among the Scotch-Irisih, even for first names. The baby's first name was Harry, after his Uncle Harrison. Harry S. Truman he would be."