I think his Presidency marks the dividing line between our time and another time that was very different. There isn’t a day goes by that some headline in the papers doesn’t relate back to the Truman administration. Consider that Harry Truman was not just the only President who has used an atomic weapon - he was the President who started the CIA, who started the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who started the National Security Council, who set in motion much of the progress we’ve seen in civil rights. He recognized the new state of Israel. He launched the Marshall Plan, and with his Point Four Program
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