The Harry S. Truman National Historic Site allows tours of Truman's home and a visitor center. When it comes to Missourians and the Oval Office, the buck stops with Harry S. Truman. The country's ...

One of the most legendary Oval Office confrontations took place in 1947, when President Harry Truman gathered aides to debate whether the United States should recognize Israel. Secretary of State ...

When President Harry S. Truman first used the desk at the White House, it was brought into the Oval Office by President John F. Kennedy and became an iconic backdrop as his son, John F.

Eddie Jacobson had never before asked for a favor from his close friend, President Harry S. Truman. But during a meeting in the Oval Office on the morning of March 13, 1948, Jacobson made an ...

Although President Harry Truman, the man who made the final decision ... Robert Oppenheimer meets with Truman in the Oval Office after the bomb is dropped. Truman, played by Gary Oldman, is ...

The Oval Office occupied by William Taft was not the same as the Oval Office occupied by Harry Truman or the Oval Office Richard Nixon. It just so happens that presidents like to redecorate—and ...

Harry Truman commemorated Roosevelt, who died in office, by featuring a large photograph of him in the Oval Office. The art he displayed was eclectic, and included a portrait of Washington ...

Photograph of President Truman in the Oval Office, reading the announcement ... democratic Asian ally. At the time Harry Truman left office in January 1953, he was viewed in America as a failed ...

When Harry Truman took over the presidency in 1945 after Roosevelt’s death, he had the Roosevelt Desk put back in the Oval Office. FDR’s original Hoover Desk is now held in his presidential ...

Nationally televised addresses delivered from the Oval Office at the White House by ... office was delivered in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman, who urged Americans to conserve food to aid ...

In 1945, as World War II struggled towards its eventual close, a fateful Oval Office meeting between Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman over Europe’s fate sparked what became not only an effective ...