President Harry Truman (1884 – 1972) Came to the presidency following the death of FDR on April 12, 1945. He said of the post, "I wasn't briefed for the job, I had to learn it from the ground up"; by 1947, he was no longer "Roosevelt's stand-in, reading from a New Deal script" - he was his own man, and this was becoming clearer and clearer to his critics in Washington. The article on the right, by Frank Gervasi (1908 – 1990), covered Truman's earliest years in the White House, and his handling of some of the hot potatoes that landed in his lap.
You can read about Truman's policy on China here...
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