Harry S. Truman - Oath of office January 20th, 1949

[BoboGumdrop]

the voices are so similar its almost like he's swearing himself in...lol

[yadig2012]

Great President !

[yadig2012]

Great President !

[yadig2012]

Epic !

[yadig2012]

Epic !

[bass4onelastfriday]

his middle name was literally "S".

[ifhgsfj]

I love his voice.

It's powerful, yet undominating.

It's powerful, but subtle.

Presidential, you could say.

[ItsEmmalicious]

@ifhgsfj my aunt says every white male born in the late 19th century in north east missouri that wore glasses & had sinus infections(all of them, including harry) all sounded the same! lol

[MeLosPuyo]

el mayo asesino de la historia el unico en atacar al mundo con bombas nucleares asesino has de quemarte en el infierno ............

[BranIL28]

Truman FUCKED THIS COUNTRY UP PEOPLE!!! The Truman Show===BIG BROTHER

[ifhgsfj]

@BranIL28 Jesus Christ.

Did you really just...

No...

You didn't.

[BeneOpastosReborn]

wow, this dude was a douche. Japan attacks pearl harbor, I think a military place or something like that right. Then the Truman Administration is like ""yo lets bomb a non military place, it should kill roughly 70 thou, watcha think CNC?" Sure why not... 3 days later... lets kill another 70 thou why not. DOUCHE! Who the hell are the delusional pricks below me. "Great president" really?

[UNCfan102]

@BeneOpastosReborn Would you rather lose millions of Americans in assaulting the islands.

[BeneOpastosReborn]

@UNCfan102 Thats a toughy

[kavadidle]

Dropping the atomic bomb had to have been a not very fun decision only 4 months into your presidency, but it was a good decision for Truman, someone had to end that war

[sandythebear]

@mavivirgie its called 9/11 and pearl harbor the worst day in u.s. history

[martind586]

we would have lost a million men if we invaded japan - They had several caves - we found out after how well they were dug in - It would have been very ugly!

[dingdongditch98]

@TylerHinds woodrow wilson was a good one

[DeAnte85]

"I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon. " - Dwight D. Eisenhower

[SoccerMidTRSA]

First of all, the Japanese were not surrendering anytime soon. They taught everyone in the country, women and children included, to fight to the death. That's not being "ready to surrender". Second of all, I don't believe Ike said that. Give me some proof.

[SoccerMidTRSA]

Ok, I apologize. Eisenhower DID say that... but I still don't believe that statement is accurate at all.

[abdenton2008]

DeAnte85,

Use some common sense. If Japan was already ready to surrender, then why did they not surrender before we dropped the bomb? Remember, Truman gave them a warning to surrender or face, "prompt and utter destruction." But even more so, why did they not surrender after the dropping of the first bomb? No, it took a second bomb on a different day for them to finally hang it up. Some common sense is all I ask when you examine history. Otherwise, you look a little foolish. No offense.

[redasspepper]

no ur wrong. Does Shanghai, Manchuria, Korea and Nanjing mean nothing? U japanese were sick and psychotic during the global wars in the 20s and 30s. the japanese suffered humongous pains? yea so were the Chinese u raped and decapitated in Nanjing. Don't tell me japs were victims the only japs that were victims were the hard working Issei and Nisei that were forcibly and grudgingly sent to the rellocation camps. those poor people did their patriotic duty by not fighting physically ur simply wrong

[redasspepper]

Truman was one of the greatest presidents ever, yes he dropped the bomb on japan but those nukes saved more than aprox 500 thousand american lives. That would mean more than all the U.S. casualties in WW2. Truman also worked fervently to champion civil rights and was the first president to desegregate anything in the U.S. In the face of unpopularity, Truman decided against crazy MacArthur to nuke the hell outta China and doom the world. People we owe Truman our lives.

[gumby118]

Ah Truman. A very tough man.

[piggyfan2]

Magix Leave Truman Alone!

[greekyct]

Truman was not as you people say a monster,while i admit Truman's decsion to drop the atomic bomb was cruel, if the USA had invaded Japan, thousands of USA troops would be killed, and thousands more Japanesse citizens would have been killed in the cross fire. If an invasion had been done as opposed to the bomb(S) most of Japans major cities would have been leveled by troops, and Japan would see the same destruction EUrope had faced. Truman made the best descioin he could.

[marrow777]

CONT'D..... "hell no I made it like that" and he clicked his fingers. His answer to the question how he made such a devastating decision to use the bomb. Test run for atomic bomb, agent orange, test run for biowarfare. Open your eyes watch RING OF POWER, read congressional record the info is everywhere.

[futuresoldier897]

Harry S. Truman TRUly a legend great president

[celaya4ever]

He was a monster. Think about Hiroshima and Nagasaki!

[SSJ3Sandslash]

But nonetheless, Harry Truman was awesome! He proved the GOP wrong in November 1948.

[bdelk107]

whatever! he saved countless american lives by dropping those bombs. He kept america out of a land war. Truman was one of Americas best presidents.

[professor501]

Completely agreed. Give 'em Hell, Harry!

[marrow777]

You are right , he wasn't just a monster he was an alcoholic womaniser and he made the decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki like brushing his teeth , he showed no remorse and wasn't able to comprehend the devastation he caused.

[CaptainDesiderio]

Are you making this up, or is it what you actually think?

[marrow777]

no its true from varius sources, there also a vid of him speaking where he says it was like clicking his fingers. I don't say things without back up evidence

[firmingitup]

To marrow777:

OK, then where is your evidence? Links, references, please.

[marrow777]

Trumann was a 33rd degree mason who was given a helping hand by the freemasons. he was a failure and a drunk until they helped in he was their puppet. There is footage of him saying he made the decision to bomb hiroshima and Negasaki without batting an eyelid. Indicates a pyshopathic nature. 80,000 death in Hiroshima and 50,000 dead in Negasaki with NO WARNING. A village in Israel has a commemorative statue of Trumann.

[firmingitup]

You may be 100% right in what you are saying, but what I am asking for is a reference. There is footage, then where can we see that. I'm not saying you're right or wrong. I would just like to see what you are speaking of.

[marrow777]

There is never 100% right. Right or wrong cannot be measured inscientific terms. Dat I can not give you toher than the recorded interview of Trumann expressing tyhe remarks I have already outlined. Informations as to his Masonic origins and support of his lodge are probably general history, David Icke outlines some of this but everyone thinks Icke is an idiot, I think he is brill. Watch Ring of Power , read Bramleys Godof Eden, check out Wikepiedia, Oxford English etc etc

[marrow777]

You can forget your GOD cos he doesn't exist. Anything which challenges accepted opinion is considered conspiracy these days.  Oh wel you must know him as he was born near you!1LOLLOL Hitler was born near someone too !!

[KPalmer71]

You are a moron.

[marrow777]

dats really klever...........you must be a genius

[redasspepper]

and yet he did not attack China and send us into WW2? who the hell cares if he didnt blink he was a good man and a great president. that is why his subordinates adored him, Dean Acheson loved Truman more than Roosevelt. Roosevelt would be very condescending while Truman was down to earth and funny.

[nobssagittarius]

Truman wouldnt of been a coward like our current president. He would of used those nukes for what they were worth. (He was stuburn but got the job done.)

[michaelHda]

Truman's is my favorite president- he did what he thought was right,% he had more vision & sense that George W. could EVER hope to have.

[Mindraker1]

I dare a president to say, "I affirm..." instead of "I solemly swear..."

[BloodNGutts]

Ain't gonna happen. That's a bible they are obligating them selves to. :)

[Albukhshi]

ok, go read about some loser named pierce, who was president from 1853-1857. he went one up from your dare: he said: I promise...;)

but no, he really did say that.

[Mindraker1]

Whoa, you're right, the 14th President!

[Albukhshi]

yeah, he was a big loozr, wasnt he? drunk as a sot, and no one wanted him back home because he supported the slaveowners (he's from New Hampshire).

he was also a pussy: they didn't call he fainting frank for nothing.

[Bianca360]

he was the thirty third president after Franklin's death.. I'm doing a proyect about him.. homework -.-. But it was Franklin Roosevelt who first was like in this Manhattan Project and everything and Truman dint know about this till Franklin died.. so when truman like took office he just continued this project cuz that was his job

[abdullahmanal]

go to hill

killer fucker

[dave98503]

Screw Truman.

Second

worst President

we ever had.

I would have voted for

Dewey.

[MrCosio]

why?

[dave98503]

He stopped Gen. Mccarthy from going into China

and to wipe out the north korean army as well.

[kingjakeofthejakes]

McArthur needed firing, hes was a dumb son of a bitch. You honestly think we could've pulled off an invasion of mainland china?

[DeAnte85]

am convinced that if you, as President, will make a shortwave broadcast to the people of Japan - tell them they can have their Emperor if they surrender, that it will not mean unconditional surrender except for the militarists - you'll get a peace in Japan - you'll have both wars over." - Herbert Hoover to President Truman May 28, 1945

[MrCosio]

Hoover was a fucking jerk off

[DeAnte85]

...Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face'. The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude..."

- Dwight Eisenhower

[redasspepper]

Dwight Eisenhower was not a general in the Pacific. He had no idea how the Japanese fought and how they operated. The Japanese militants would have not given up a fight. They had over 900 thousand troops sent to Kyushu. You think that those 900 thousand troops would not put up a fight? Okinawa was a great preview of an invasion of mainland Japan. Tell this quote to a WW2 veteran who fought bravely in the Pacific. Invading mainland Japan would be a suicide mission.

[DeAnte85]

You have no idea what you're talking about, which just proves the old age adage, winners of the wars with write the history.

Japan was already defeated and ready to surrender. Truman demanded the "unconditional surrender" of the Japanese, meaning they had to give up the Emperor. Which every prominent American military advisor knew they wouldn't do. After the nukings, Japan finally consented to give up the Emperor. Though Truman let the Emperor stay on anyway.

[DeAnte85]

Becaus it was never really about the Emperor anyway. Truman and a few others wanted to prove to the SU that in a post WW-II world, America had the bomb and was not afraid to use it. It was about sending a message.

[redasspepper]

Yes it was about scaring the Soviet Union. If Truman invaded Japan so would the Soviet Union and Japan would probably be like Korea, split into two countries, one communist another democratic. America helped Japan financially so it could counter the pro Soviet China. The U.S. wanted a pro western asian power that they gave up in China after 1949 when Mao took over.

[redasspepper]

That makes a lot of sense, Truman let the Emperor stay anyway? He was obviously not interested in removing them, he wanted unconditional surrender because the Japanese would have built a military empire again in twenty years. Adolf Hitler did it what makes you think the Japanese couldn't have? DeAnte your right that history is written by the winners but this was 60 years ago and there were people who can still remember that history. Ask the American teenage soldier during WW2 about invading Jap.

[DeAnte85]

The Japanese were more than willing to give up the war generals (the people actually in charge, calling the shots) and remove large components of their military power, but not the Emperor. McArthur is on record as being against the terms of the "unconditional surrender" knowing full well that the Japanese would not easily give up their (ultimately powerless) Emperor simply because of the religious symbolism and that it wasn't necessary.

[redasspepper]

DeAnte please don't tell me I have no idea what I'm talking about cause you are obviously so negative against Truman that it affects your argument.

[DeAnte85]

Okay.

[Filby]

Truman did some things I'm not proud of, but I still have quite a bit of respect for him.

"The buck stops here."

[mikeb9900]

The bombs? Had to be done.

[Filby]

Agreed, but I still regret it.

[mikeb9900]

Me, too. One of the most regretable necessities in history. By the way , I read your profile and you are not a slacker. Some people take longer than others to get traction and direction. If you are going through a period of uncertainty, go to GOD. He is always faithful. Regards. M.B.

[Filby]

Thanks for your kind words -- I actually got a very good job last October and forgot to update my profile. :)

And I'm atheist as it happens, but I'd rather not begin a debate. :)

[BooBooLane]

As they said: "To err is Truman." A third bomb was needed.

[Filby]

I'd have stopped at one myself.

...hell, I wouldn't have even gone that far. Which is why I'm glad it was Truman making the decision and not me.

[BooBooLane]

That's an honest remark by Filb-ee.

[Metallicakicksbutt]

Give 'em hell Harry. Yes,Truman was great and historians frequently place him among the best 6 presidents the USA has ever had. He prevented WW3 on some occations and was good enough to be selected on his own. It's too bad most people remember him as the only president that gave order to use the atomic bomb. In reality he had little other choice and other presidents would also have done it.

[acb06172005]

This despite the fact that he left office with among the lowest approval ratings in history. Sound familiar?

[core3do4]

Kind of like bush.

Don't be so quick to judge idiot

[CDMstudios]

President Harry Truman was a great president...enough said.