HARRY TRUMAN, PRESIDENT OF THE U.S

ARC Identifier 50066 / Local Identifier 306.3732. U.S. Information Agency. (1982 - 10/01/1999) Made possible by a donation from John and Paige Curran.

[@pwgearedturbofan2348]

One of my favorite presidents. I love his "simple" yet wholesome background and his political skill. Foreign politicians probably underestimated him when they heard he was just a simple farm boy from the country.

[@karlhelm875]

my mom admired truman

[@chomskysfavefive]

Stalin, who doesn't know a thing about quality statesmanship, thought he was worthless.

[@edisone1]

Even if only for the rare color footage, this is a wonderful film! Thanks to PRO for sharing this !!!!

[@andymurday4538]

He really was just a normal and humble man who became the most powerful man in the world. Once his time as President ended, he really did just go back home and became once again a normal and humble man, like he was before. I would long to see a head of state in this modern age who is from humble beginnings and once their stint ends, they just go back home to their normal lives and lead a simple life.

[@richardcook6284]

That is what made him great. He did not allow ego to interfere with anything.

[@curiositysmc]

Yes he is great for bombing japan with 2 atom.bomb and killing infants children and womens give him nobel prize

[@l.a.gothro3999]

Have you any idea how difficult that was for him to do? And did you know how many people would've died - civilian and military - if there'd been an invasion of Japan, not just the US but Russia as well? YOU try leading a country after NOT having any bloody clue about what's going on from your boss, and get back with us on that one, okay?

[@burningphoenix6679]

manasnyk he didn’t have much of a choice. The Japanese military leaders forced his hand. Millions of Americans, British, Soviets, and even Japanese alike owe their lives to him dropping the bomb. Nobody is at fault but the Japanese military leaders

[@garylaird2879]

@@curiositysmc I have not heard Japan apologize for Pearl Harbor.

[@crunkalac]

If only America could get a President like Truman again.

[@andrewdoburt7583]

Yeah he’s probably sickened in his grave if he saw Trump as president

[@shadetreader]

Truman was a mass m*rderer.

[@dougfredricks2017]

Amen to that!

[@egyptworldtopgun1]

Well. jimmy carter was the closest

[@132indo]

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[@marksell5774]

Fascinating historical artifact. Appears to have been produced not for the 1948 or even 1946 election (when Republicans cleaned the Democrats' clocks in the "Had Enough" campaign), but around December 1945, as the most recent events documented were the commission of the carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt in October 1945 and headline on Truman's appeal for health care in November of that year. Also shows him with his mother, who died in mid-1947 at around age 95. This therefore appears to have been filmed during the first blush of peace, before inflation, labor turbulence, and postwar dislocations upset the gyroscope .

[@kevinw9073]

Hard to think we actually had a man like Harry Truman in The White House. How far we have come, and not for the better.

[@burtmaclinfbi3993]

Boo frickety hoo, dumb American.

[@daveinmilwaukee]

"America Needs You, Harry Truman." Even more true today than when Chicago sang it in 1975.

[@stevebilbrey9569]

He was the 33rd president but the 32nd person to hold office. Grover Cleveland held the office twice 22nd and 24th. Pretty cool trivia.

[@andrewdoburt7583]

He was the 32nd president and the 31st to hold office

[@oldcremona]

Imagine, the leader of the free world a humble, unassuming man! Harry was a great American.

[@andymurday4538]

The modern world needs more national leaders like Truman who are from humble backgrounds and lead humble lives outside of their public duty. President Truman really did lead a simple, humble life outside of this duty as President, and once again he led a normal, peaceful life when his Presidency ended. I feel that if I ever met him he would make a really good friend, without any airs or graces.

[@borkokostic8290]

Old Cremona Harry was a great war criminal.

[@RobertJamesChinneryH]

@@borkokostic8290 depends on how you look at him...he will go down as one of the greatest Presidents of all time...

[@TheDoctor1225]

@@borkokostic8290 Oh yawn. Says the troll sitting comfortably in the world won for him by his betters. That is such a dull, banal complaint. Go clutch your pearls somewhere else and watch My Little Pony while you let other people defend your freedom to be a moron.

[@paulmiller6647]

Amen he sure was we need another leader the United States is desperate.

[@richardboudville5188]

"The Buck Stops Here"...… it was his Motto! ...…...What a great man. What a massive job. He determined by using the A Bombs he saved many Servicemen's lives. He was right!

[@williambukowski7642]

He was indeed right on saving the servicemen; my Dad was one of them who was saved, and got to go home!

[@shadetreader]

It's a myth that Truman "had to" commit mass m*rder of Japanese civilians to end the war.

[@avalonsenn4916]

A sweet documentary of a great but simple man. Today the world is a better place because of spiritually sound people like Truman. Love him for recognizing Israel as state.

[@andrewdoburt7583]

The best president. Calm, Nice, Smart, Funny, and he did a LOT as president.

[@thejoyofthemusicinmylife7897]

It is wonderful that President Truman's mom lived to see her son become President of the United States.

[@StevenJInLA]

Harry and Bess' only child Margaret led an interesting and accomplished life. As a teenager she started taking singing lessons and was a successful soprano who toured both the US and Europe. She also made numerous TV and radio appearances. In 1980, at age 56, she published her first fiction book - Murder in the White House - which led to 24 more bestselling murder/mysteries such as Murder at the FBI, Murder at the Pentagon, Murder in the CIA, etc. She authored numerous non-fiction titles including a book on White House pets. She passed in 2008 at age 83.

[@thomast3570]

Her Dad threatened to rupture a music critic that didn't like her singing. She was sure that this was fake because her father won't talk that way. Got to love them.

[@chrisrapp7564]

He could relate to the common man because he lived the struggles that they did. I don’t think we will ever see anyone like him again. The Democratic Party knew what he was like, that is why the tapped him FDR’s Vice President.

[@homersamson2635]

Some pretty nice colour photography of these fascinating locations marking Truman's life.

[@rayherbst6655]

He left active duty in the Army at the end of World War I at the rank of Major, and in the Army Reserves he was a Colonel.

[@SandfordSmythe]

He memorized the eye chart to join.

[@SatchmoSings]

When Truman left office, his popularity rating was even slightly lower than that of Pres. Nixon resigning over the Watergate scandal. Just the same, after the reigns of power were officially transferred over to the new Pres., Dwight Eisenhower, thousands of people showed up at Washington's railroad station to properly see the Trumans off to their home in Independence, MO.

[@scottsmith7419]

SatchmoSings and he is very very highly regarded now.

[@edisone1]

True, and all along the route home, the crowds grew larger and larger. At home in Independence, there gathered the largest crowd EVER in that city, to greet President and Mrs Truman. After reading David McCullough's book "TRUMAN" (a huge best-seller,btw) on a whim, Harry Truman became my own favorite and most admired President in history. The more I learn of him, the more I love the man and wish I could have met him, just once (I was 10 when he died, so it might have happened) ...

[@garymorris1856]

He was wise not to run against Eisenhower. It would have been a landslide.

[@11thstalley96]

Gary Morris Truman actually asked Ike to run as a Democrat before Eisenhower had made it known that he was a Republican.

[@buckeyefarmboy107]

Give them he'll Harry!

[@mikeodonovan9299]

Was Truman the last President that didn't get financially enriched by virtue of the office of the Presidency?

[@andrewdoburt7583]

I think, btw Trump is the worst president

[@terrya8989]

No, Jimmy Carter hasn't either. The only two that didn't cash in after they left.

[@unclesam5230]

@@andrewdoburt7583 nope

[@danielebrparish4271]

Yes because there was no salary or benefits for former presidents at that time. T.R., Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolege, Hoover and FDR were all financially well off. Truman drained his savings because he needed an office and staff to answer his mail and schedule his time to meet the requests from dignitaries, historians and interviewers. He was warned by Hoover that he would need a secure fence around his home to prevent souvenir hunters from pulling pieces off of his home. When he was forced to sell the family farm to make ends meet it became an international embarrassment. Congress then passed legislation to provide retirement and benefits to all former presidents which includes an office and staff as well as personal security. Like Grant, Harry published his memoirs because he needed the income.

[@rhondamadgirl]

What a great snapshot in time in color.

[@WC0125]

Thank you for sharing. Strangely they have one glaring fact wrong. He was the 33rd president. FDR was the 32nd.

[@gennarog3]

You were the best, HARRY!!

[@andrewdoburt7583]

Yes, I MISS HIM

[@k9feline2]

cont. In Dewey's short, Dewey acted out scenes for the camera, giving his short a staged, artificial quality, while Truman's had a ring of authenticity to it Dewey's lacked, percisely because it resembled the sort of newsreel 1948 audiences were used to.

[@p47thunderbolt68]

Don't think Roosevelt thought much of Truman . He didn't know anything about the Manhattan project I've read.

[@mountainryder3056]

Could use Harry and his common sense, which isn’t very common, these days

[@kennedymuitherero3762]

Those automobiles were premium stuff

[@edisone1]

At 12:43 or so, when Truman was speaking at San Francisco, several shots are reversed, putting his hanky pocket and lapel pin on the wrong side. I wonder how that happened..

[@drguffey]

Actually, Truman was our 33rd President.

[@danielebrparish4271]

Only if we say Cleveland was two different people.

[@drguffey]

Cleveland served two non successive terms. He was the 22nd & 24th President. @@danielebrparish4271

[@GoodmanMIke59]

10:00 .... they made a mistake. Roosevelt was the 32nd president, Truman was the 33rd.

[@k9feline2]

David McCullough refers to this short in his big biography of Truman. In 1948, Truman's Presidential opponent Thomas Dewey had commisioned a big budget propaganda short for himself. Truman insisted that to keep things equal, there should be another short for Truman. Since Truman couldn't afford a big budget, and this was done at the last minute, this short was hastily cobbled together out of old newsreel footage. Ironically, this helped Truman. cont.

[@robmoir7524]

HARRY TRUMAN WAS ALSO A GOOD DEMOCRAT NO MORE GOOD DEMOCRATS LIKE TRUMAN J F K AND BOBBY

[@Facade13]

my favorite president stayed true to himself and the values in the Constitution he was 100% real

[@robmoir7524]

THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO I ENJOYED IT

[@arthurgeorge2343]

I love him

[@0579425]

Missourah

[@glennsmith4056]

Although I am a Republican I believe Harry Truman was one of the best presidents we ever had. I believe Truman would be appalled how the Democratic party has become so Anti American.

[@susanray4059]

By "anti-American" do you mean speaking out about the *ill's* and corruptions that have infested its ranks? Bc as a citizen we are charged to speak out about what you feel is wrong within your government. However, I am not a Democrat nor am I a Republican either. Truman should have never been Vice POTUS. Henry Wallace should have held that seat and then become POTUS when FDR died.

[@11thstalley96]

Since as a Republican you’ll probably never visit the Truman Library in Independence, MO, so allow me to describe the main room leading to the reproduction of the Oval Office during Truman’s administration. On the wall of that main room, the party platform on which HST ran in 1948 was printed in large enough letters for anyone to recognize it as virtual unchanged from the platform on which President Obama was elected POTUS twice. Harry Truman would be as proud to be a Democrat today as he was when he was President, a party fighting for the common man against the Republicans he disdained.

[@TheDoctor1225]

I'm not an anything, political party wise, but I also believe he would be. The Democrats of his ilk were far different than the ones today.

[@michaelengen7392]

Oh cool, a Truman video NOT made by some geeky vloger hawking insurance ads with a British accent.

[@jordin7091]

Not bad for a man without a college degree

[@corvettez0910]

That was when people were self-read. Now we have people with college degrees without a lick of sense.

[@drguffey]

He was 33rd President ! Just saying.

[@lonewolf4429]

Technically he was the 33rd president as Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th..but he was the 32nd person to be president.

[@hanaluong2672]

Somehow I feel I like this man very much. Roosevelt was quite likeable too but he was from the super-rich class in the sophisticated New York. Here we have Truman, a true man in the average.

[@oldcremona]

Best video evah!

[@zachrichards3679]

Truman 1948!

[@ComfortsSpecter]

The Comfort Of Man Know’s No Bounds Immaculate So Much to Say I Have No Time Thank You The Iowa Deserved That Surrender More though Bad Memetics

[@reinfeddedewolff5565]

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[@jimtrack3786]

We could sure use Harry today!

[@DocCarpet]

This is the guy who needs to chill (If you dont know he was angry at the DC music station and wrote a note saying: "I read your lowsy review; you sound like an old man with no success. I have never met you before, but If I do you will need a new nose." Not exactly but he bacicly said he was going to punch off the person's nose.) But he is a great man though.

[@Sandalphon444]

What? Where, when, and how did this happen?

[@SandfordSmythe]

@@Sandalphon444 This is in reference to a bad review of his daughter singing?

[@retiredmusiceducator3612]

I see out global efforts go way back to Truman, eh! Hmmm, interesting. I wasn't a good student of history but as I learn more, I 'see' more why as well as what is going on these days.

[@Mark-yy2py]

A democrat who cared about getting out of debt! A rarity indeed! 🤔

[@oldcremona]

Actually the debt has been much higher with Republicans lately, with Bush's Iraq War and Chump's budget-busting military spending, The National Debt is at an all-time high because of that moronic jackass.

[@MattB-zm2uk]

@@oldcremona 46# is going to blow them all out of the water...... just look at the infrastructure bill they just passed. In reality there are three groups of politiciansin Washington. Those that don't give a damn about the budget( democrats) those who pretend to care about the deficit ( republicans) and those who actually care and whose cuts and reductions are shot down by everyone else. Unfortunatly those who are left are a dieing breed, Kent Conrad and tom coburn are both gone. Rand paul and Pat toomey are the only ones left.

[@tomnalley3644]

He was a conservative Democrat before they became commiecrats.

[@rumbaka8185]

Harry Truman are my true and perseption .He is the MAN

[@captainamerica6525]

"Give em hell Harry"

[@TheCerebralDude]

A truly underrated president

[@suzyqjhawk7859]

Best President Ever. From Missouree....not Missourah.

[@ethanlinton1159]

lol accent Britannic

[@11thstalley96]

LOL, as a St. Louisan, we were the only ones in the state to pronounce it Missouree...everywhere else in the state, including Independence pronounced it Missourah when this was filmed. Harry Truman pronounced it Missourah and he famously stated that he never trusted any man who pronounced it Missouree. (He must have made an exception for Tom Hannegan.) Now that radio and television has made our American culture so homogenized, only older or rural folks in our state pronounce it Missourah, and I regret that almost forced conformity.

[@OrionMaybs]

3$ a week!

[@roadracer1584]

How did we get from Truman to Trump? Our Founding Fathers must be rolling in their graves.

[@corvettez0910]

Don’t forget Biden. We’re living in turbulent times.

[@andrewdoburt7583]

Truman must be rolling in his grave if he saw Donald Trump as president.

[@tomnalley3644]

He,d really crap his pants if he knew sleepy joe and kamala the laughing hyena were in there now by cheating.

[@jimmylong1510]

President Truman rolling over Joe Biden. Sleep Joe PAID AND BROUGHT BY RUSSIA AND CHINA.

[@EwingOil509]

When he left the White House he moved back to his Mother N Law’s house that she had left them.

[@johnjablonski2155]

I think he was the last great President,

[@michaelshaffer8451]

The 32nd? …more like the 33rd.🤔

[@Endgame707]

He was European

[@timconnolly7635]

The narrator is wrong. Harry Truman was the 33rd President of the United States, not the 32nd.

[@OmayraPacheco-m7n]

Noeldechen Gilroy Detail. 😮🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@36thpresidentlyndonbainesj32]

Damn, I look great in this

[@earthstewardude]

There was no period placed after Harry's middle initial because he did not have a middle name. Harry Truman only had a middle initial "S" and I can't end this sentence with just the "S" in quotes because then I would have to end the sentence with a period after the S inside the quotes. That would confuse people. So for you minutiae freaks - it was Harry S Truman. No period- period!

[@MattMorris481]

The last great Democrat almost honest to a fault.

[@master-kq3nw]

He was for middle class workers in 1940s life was cheap .

[@Intelligenkeit]

facepalm

[@JAZZ4643indy]

What happened to that country..hmmm …

[@tomgrimes8379]

Well, everyone who produced this is dead. Nonetheless, if you can't get his numerical place correct in the line of succession -- he was the 33rd president -- how can I trust anything else you say? Mr. McCracken, that's a terribly embarrassing mistake.

[@TheDoctor1225]

You can realize that people misspeak themselves and use that thing called "critical thinking" instead of dismissing everything and attempting to appear intelligent. That's like dismissing an entire textbook because of a typo. Give me a break.

[@danielebrparish4271]

He was the 32nd person to be a U.S. president. Cleveland held the office twice but because his terms were not consecutive his terms were given two seperate numbers.

[@oomahuntressprotectress848]

ts the Anapurna river, renamed the Ganges

[@oomahuntressprotectress848]

dms me about it!

[@master-kq3nw]

He help europe and in america was good life .he created new jobs only mistake is nuclear bomb in japan

[@SandfordSmythe]

Sometimes morality is a choice between two evils. And it's a good man who will jump in and take that responsibility.

[@master-kq3nw]

@@SandfordSmythe no nuclear bombs that was not good, but truman help middle class a nd he was for workers big salary lower taxes

[@SandfordSmythe]

@@master-kq3nw The fact that the US had the only remaining intact economy and industrial base helped the workers and corporations. But he did aim for the common man.

[@master-kq3nw]

@@SandfordSmythe 45 53 america have good economy

[@山田国雄-h9y]

過ぎ越し祭の言われを無視した裕仁とトルーマン。殺戮の神が子々孫々の頭上を舞っている。楽しい。

[@robertoibarra9412]

No tienen idea de lo que isieron pero ya esta en el infierno

[@100texan2]

Pure propaganda

[@henryseidel5469]

Truman committed the worst war crimes in the history of mankind: Hiroshima and Nagasaky. He will never be forgotten.

[@michaelfotifoti4892]

Wrong he saved American lives by dropping the bombs American lives would have been lost invading Japan

[@michaelaluna7684]

The Japanese are the ones you're talking about. Ever heard of Mutsohiro Wantanabe? Look him up. Truman made a very difficult but wise decision concerning 250,000 American troops stationed in Japan.

[@burningphoenix6679]

Henry Seidel are you a fucking idiot? Have you not heard of the war crimes committed by Japan and Germany in that war? Truman isn’t a war criminal, he is a war hero who millions of people owe their lives to

[@jebthegodemperor7301]

the alternative of a land invasion would have been even worse

[@henryseidel5469]

@@jebthegodemperor7301 Now just give a definition of what a war crime is !

[@markjohnson9455]

No Harry was not what he appeared to be because he was a member of the World Government and CFR. If I had lived back then I would have voted for Dewey.