President #33, C-SPAN Historians ranking #5 The Dewey Decimator If you were alive on April 12, 1945 and learned that Harry S. Truman had become President of the United States after the death of Franklin Roosevelt, you likely would not have been filled with confidence. Truman was a relatively unknown former Senator from Missouri. He [...]
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