Truman

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• 10/13/19
  

  Trump and A History of Presidential Anti-Semitism

  by Donne Levy

  As with so many Trump blunders, he is apparently ignorant of the history and nature of anti-Semitism in America.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/17/19
  

  The History of Citizenship Day Is a Reminder That Being an American Has Always Been Complicated

  by S. Deborah Kang

  “We welcome you,” Truman declared, “not to a narrow nationalism but to a great community based on a set of universal ideals.”

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• SOURCE: Nordics Info
  9/10/19
  

  Buying Greenland? Trump, Truman and the 'Pearl of the Mediterranean'

  by Thorsten Borring Olesen

  Greenland has been and continues to be a vital strategic asset, not least to the US - and perhaps even more so due to the possible effects of climate change.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  Accessed 8/17/19
  

  Before Trump eyed Greenland: Here’s what happened last time the US bought a large chunk of the Arctic

  by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley

  With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II ceded Alaska, his country’s last remaining foothold in North America, to the United States for US$7.2 million.

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• 4/7/19
  

  The Long History of Anti-Immigration Legislation and "Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude"

  by Stephanie Hinnershitz

  The Supreme Court's Nielsen v. Preap decision is just the latest example of using this concept to deport immigrants.  

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• 2/16/19
  

  How Do You Fire a Special Prosecutor? Ask Harry Truman.

  by Andrew Coan

  The Truman tax scandals teach an important lesson about the relationship between special prosecutors and democratic politics. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-27-18
  

  When Truman met Stalin

  "He is honest — but smart as hell.”

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• 8/5/18
  

  This Knocks the Legs Out from Under the Atom Bomb Revisionists Who Criticize Truman for Hiroshima

  by D. M. Giangreco

  It’s the story of America’s hidden role in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.

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• SOURCE: National Review
  5-10-18
  

  Victor Davis Hanson compares Trump with Truman

  by Victor Davis Hanson

  The two presidents share low approval ratings and a penchant for ad hominem attacks on political enemies.

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• SOURCE: Vineyard Gazette
  8-4-16
  

  Evan Thomas and David McCullough discuss Trump, Nixon, Ike, and Truman

  "Harry Truman said the only new thing about the world is the history you don’t know. And when you have a presidential aspirant who doesn’t know any history, and everything is new to him, he doesn’t know how to handle it.” — McCullough

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• 5-22-16
  

  An Open Letter to President Obama on Hiroshima

  by Thomas Fleming

  What Hiroshima means to this historian who interviewed Truman about the decision to drop the bomb.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  5-11-16
  

  Obama, Truman and Hiroshima

  by Wilson D. Miscamble

  There’s zero reason to apologize for the atomic bombing, which forestalled invasion and saved lives.

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• 2-26-16
  

  Both Truman and Obama Faced a Choice. Retreat Peacefully from the World or Engage It.

  by Kenneth Weisbrode

  Truman chose engagement.  Obama chose to pull back.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-17-16
  

  When Harry Truman Nearly Doubled the Minimum Wage

  by Teresa Tritch

  And unemployment went down, not up.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-28-15
  

  L.B.J. and Truman: The Bond That Helped Forge Medicare

  by Michael Beschloss

  Lyndon B. Johnson was often derided for being egocentric, but when it came time to sign his landmark bill creating Medicare, 50 years ago this July, he graciously insisted on sharing the credit with the 81-year-old Harry Truman.

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• 11-9-14
  

  Why Americans Have Been Duped over the Use of the Atomic Bomb

  by Paul Ham

  One day somebody in high office in Washington will have the intellectual honesty to acknowledge, if not apologise for, a grotesque distortion of the truth that the Truman Administration visited on the American people in the pages of Harper’s Magazine in 1947.