Harry S. Truman: President of the United States - Color Footage (Part 1)

[ciroalb3]

interesting that men removed their hats during the innauguration

[BlarkUntVhite]

"Hairy Ass Truman"

[8corporal]

I have held a strong interest in (recent) US history/presidents for all of my adult life, and this is a gem of a find!

[Dominik82y]

"The Jews, I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as DP as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog." - Harry Truman

[RJY4356]

This film must be from 1945 or 1946... because his mother died in July 1947.

[JudgeMagisterDelita]

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What? Truman was the 33rd President, not the 32nd.

[RJY4356]

@JudgeMagisterDelita Yes he was the 33rd President but since Cleveland was President two different times, there were 32 men or persons total, since Cleveland was not 2 different men.

[islamloverist]

killed japan, started cold war, and almost nuked korea.

[donnyab]

@NewestFormOfSlavery

Moron

[donnyab]

christ where have these people gone in only 60 years, no doubt his farm would be fucking mortgaged to Monsanto today

[kentmotsinger]

I visited Harry Truman's library , It was a wonderful place. It has a oval office and artifacts collection. Also automobile from that era. Hope that everyone can see it!

[superveloce640]

mugroso homicida  gringo este era una bestia .mierda de ser humano

[duaness]

@mehrdadpazooki  Very simple...Kill or be killed. I realize that your soft life that was made possible by the hardship and awful decisions made during that time, make it hard for you to understand what it was like.You don't understand with what kind of logic human being kill its own race. at least Japanese didn't kill ppl for a man-made imaginary god. It had nothing to do with God or god. It was about domination/aggression by Japan against US. Very simple: Kill them or they kill you.

[duaness]

@mehrdadpazooki You need to educate yourself if you are to understand what a difficult decision he had. Japan was not going to surrender and a million of civilians along with another half a million soldiers on both sides would continue to fight and die or he could end the horror and even then Japan didn't surrender after the first bomb. Read accounts of the Marine Corp battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima or the Philippines and you'll get a little taste of what what going on. Great man.

[SeymourSays123]

TRUMAN'S DA MAN !!!

[princethaceleb]

WAIT A DAMN SECOND.. DID THEY JUST SAY HIS BROTHER'S NAME IS VIVIAN LMFAOOO

[notredamehesamighty]

Great man, great president. Although it is historically inaccurate to say that he did not expect to be the nation's Chief Executive. According a number of sources, the private papers of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy among them, Truman and others in the Roosevelt administration knew full well how frail FDR's health was in 1944 - 1945, and were quite aware that he was not going to survive until 1948. Truman went into the Vice Presidency knowing he would soon be the president.

[TeeMoe216]

I am producing a documentary film called Tom and Harry: The Boss and the President. I am wondering where I could get a copy of this film. Could I obtain it from you? Terence O'Malley

[JAKE19881000]

One of the best democrat presidents, he had balls.

[YoungNubb]

@JAKE19881000 hmmm would have been weird if he didn't have balls. I mean, what would he have had, ovaries? He was male, of course he had balls! Retard! I take extra testosterone for fun does that make me better? No way! Truman and me have lots of it because we do... whateverr. get over it stop envying the most lucious beautiful women ever.... pretty

[zgomer1]

I really wished I could have known Harry and his family.

[EmmaYaBasta]

Henry A Wallace was a real progressive at the top -- a very rare thing.

[whamfan87]

He faced he hardest decision any of us could possibly imagine, started NATO and the UN, stood up for civil rights although it was correct (but not popular), and was a key to the start of Medicare. Amazing man.

[Aaronthegreatest]

Whenever I think of a politician who was a man of the people, who was fair, honest, and hard-working, I think of Harry Truman.

[xkunx]

@Aaronthegreatest

Fair and honest. Until he ordered the killing of over 100,000 civilians via 2 atomic bombs.

Whenever I think of mindless drones. I think of you

[Aaronthegreatest]

@xkunx When I said 'fair and honest' I was exclusively referring to his reputation as a politician, not his role as a war-time leader. Whether or not his decision to use the atomic bomb on the Japanese was "fair" or not is a matter of debate, but I'm not sure how that affects his honesty--it is worth noting that til his dying day, Truman never regretted using those weapons--that at least shows integrity. So frankly, I'm not sure what the bombings have to do with my statement.

[ProgressiveInAmerica]

@xkunx Star Wars video game nerd, would you of rather had MILLIONS more died with the US invasion of Japan? He saved more lives, ended the war, and helped rebuild Japan. You are a dumbfuck.

[duaness]

@xkunx You need to educate yourself if you are to understand what a difficult decision he had. Japan was not going to surrender and a million of civilians along with another half a million soldiers on both sides would continue to fight and die or he could end the horror and even then Japan didn't surrender after the first bomb. Read accounts of the Marine Corp battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima or the Philippines and you'll get a little taste of what what going on. Great man.

[duaness]

@xkunx What choice would you make? Millions or thousands dead. He ordered the saving of millions of civilians and soldiers, on both sides. Japan wasn't going to surrender. They didn't after the first bomb was dropped in case you doubt that they weren't going to surrender. You don't understand the reality of the war, their culture or the fact that millions would've died, civilian and military in what would take another two or three years of the horror that was WW2. Tough but correct decision.

[xkunx]

@duaness

Another uneducated, moronic tool whose been listening to his highschool republican history teacher.

If you had any kind of education on the real facts of the matter, Japan was trying to surrender since the spring 1945 and all the summer of 1945. You act like all of Japanese civilians were ready to die. No.

Its the stubborn leadership that refused to "surrender", what we should have done was bomb and kill Japan's military fanatics, not kill over 100,000 civilians.

[jayNicks10]

@xkunx dude. If he would have ran in there and attacked, a lot more people would have been killed than if he were to drop 2 bombs. It was the smart thing to do and it forced them to surrender and The U.S. won the war.

[xkunx]

@jayNicks10

What is terrorism?

2977 people died on 9/11

Over 100,000 civilians died in 2 atomic bomb attacks.

Thats over 35.9 times more civlians than 9/11. Do the math. (or wait) take a math class... and get educated

Hiroshima and Nagasaki was terrorism.

If you justify those attacks as... "It was a war"

Then you can also justify the 9/11 suicide attacks as a war

Because we are responsible for bombing their homes, killing their children. It is their war against imperialism

[duaness]

Put the pipe down dude...we dropped an atomic bomb and they didn't surrender, but you say they were trying to surrender since the spring of 45? Really...everytime you make a keystroke about this topic you confirm your idiocy when it comes to the war. I lived through it, have a Masters in History and fought in the Pacific against an enemy that started the whole thing. Well we finished it. You can babble all you want, sad, pathetic completely clueless babble. Save us from idiots and morons.