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It's one you want your Children and Grandchildren to read.
They won't believe this happened, but it DID.
(This seems unreal.)
Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.
The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri. His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.
When he retired from office in 1952 his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.
After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.
When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."
Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise." As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.
Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices. Political offices are now for sale.
Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!"
To be awarded the Medal of Honor you must have committed an act that required such bravery that had you not have done what you did,you would not have been criticized. Did Truman ever do this? I wonder about this story because I don't think congress has anything to do with the awarding of a Medal of Honor, but I'm not positive about that. But no doubt, he was one of our greatest presidents.
Phu Cat
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It is called The Congressional Medal of Honor. http://www.cmohs.org/Originally Posted by Phu Cat
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Our country could certainly benefit in all aspects by having more of today's political leaders following Truman's example.
He lived and served before my time but contributed greatly to our country.
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Probably shouldn't say this.... When will the American people follow Truman's example....
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MHGOLDWING, It is my understanding, the name of the award is the Medal of Honor. When I misused the phrase Congressional Medal of Honor I was immediately corrected by Gordon Roberts and Sammy Davis, both Medal of Honor recipients, that congress has nothing to do with it. I'm gonna take their word for it.
I don't know who set up that web site. I know the MoH is awarded in the name of congress (of course they have steal someone else's thunder) and possibly that's why it's often misused. If there's more to it I'd be happy to listen to it.
Phu Cat
"a joint resolution is required by Congress for someone to recieve the MoH",
I later found this. Seems I might have been misinformed. Sorry, Mr. Wing.
Phu Cat
Last edited by Phu Cat; 03-07-2016 at 01:37 PM. Reason: Even MoH awardees can be wrong
Beware of liberals posing as Americans.
All's good. There is so much BS on the web these days it is hard to find facts sometimes.
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The legacy of Truman lives on today as the entire world grapple with and utilize nuclear fission.
Do you believe we could do this again, if called upon?
During the 3-1/2 years of World War II that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, "We the People of the U.S.A." Produced the following: 22 aircraft carriers 8 battleships 48 cruisers 349 destroyers 420 destroyer escorts 203 submarines 34 million tons of merchant ships 100,000 fighter aircraft 98,000 bombers 24,000 transport aircraft 58,000 training aircraft 93,000 tanks 257,000 artillery pieces 105,000 mortars 3,000,000 machine guns 2,500,000 military trucks. We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany.
It's worth noting, that during the almost exact amount of time, the Obama Administration couldn't even build a web site that worked.
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We Will Never See This Again
The latest and sixth non-fiction book by Bill O’Reilly, the Fox News host’s best-selling history franchise and co-written with , is Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan. The publisher Henry Holt will release on Sept. 13,2016.
This time, is “Killing” an entire nation.
The last two books in the series — Killing Reagan in 2015, and Killing Patton in 2014 — both landed at No. 1 on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list.
Killing the Rising Sun is the first in the series to focus not on the violent death of a historic figure (or in the case of <culink title="" class="culinks" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51) !important; font-weight: 400 !important;" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Ronald Reagan]President Reagan</culink>, an assassination attempt), but two nations at war.
According to the publisher, the new book will cover the beginning in 1944 and build to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima</culink>. The history will be seen through the eyes of such figures as Robert Oppenheimer</culink>, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman</culink>, Gen.Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito.
A more compelling and accurate historic look into Truman’s legacy will become evident in the book.
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