Harry S. Truman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953). As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice-president and the 34th Vice President of the...
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Truman Announced A Fair Deal ; January 5, 1949 ; A "Fair Deal" is what President Harry Truman called his plan. ... He announced it in a speech on January 5, 1949. His Fair Deal recommended that all Americans have health insurance, that the minimum wage (the lowest amount of money per hour that someone can be paid) be...
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Cartoon titled, "President Truman wearing General MacArthur's Hat" from 1950 ... CREDIT: Chase, John Churchill, artist. "President Harry Truman wearing General's MacArthur's hat," 1950. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Reproduction Number LC-USZC4-4888.
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The Fair Deal was the name given to Harry Truman's domestic program. ... When Truman finally left office in 1953, his Fair Deal was but a mixed success. In July 1948 he banned racial discrimination in federal government hiring practices and ordered an end to segregation in the military.
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He proposed an ambitious legislative agenda that he dubbed the "Fair Deal." Although Truman had supported New Deal relief and reform, he also believed that newer reforms were needed to solve the nation's economic and social problems in the post-war era.
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Truman Proposed 'Fair Deal' Plan for World; Challenge to Communism Voiced at Inaugural ... Harry S. Truman, hero of the great political drama of 1948, was sworn in yesterday for a four-year term -- a quadrennium he hopes will see "a major turning point in the long history of the human race."
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In-depth essays created by the University of Virginia on Truman Announces Fair Deal Program -- January 5, 1949's life and administration. ... Truman's Fair Deal included a wide ranging group of proposals: economic controls to halt inflation, a more progressive tax structure, the raising of the minimum wage, repeal of the...
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Learn what happened on This Day in History at History.com. ... On this day in 1949, President Harry S. Truman announces, in his State of the Union address, that every American has a right “to expect from our government a fair deal.”...
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Truman, the Fair Deal, and the Cold Wa ... In announcing the Fair Deal, Truman said that the survival politics of the New Deal with its dual policy of relief and reform were no longer what America needed. Instead, the Fair Deal would redistribute income among people of various classes, transferring money from the very rich...
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