Harry S. Truman
1884–1972 · Person
33rd President of the United States, sworn in days before VE-day. Authorised the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, launched the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine, and committed US forces to the Korean War.
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