Brigadier General Bob Payne and Command Sergeant Major Rob Koelling of the Missouri National Guard laid a wreath at Truman's gravesite. "People like Truman and Churchill are the architects of that ...

Why did Acheson, and subsequently President Truman, see a looming international crisis in the news from London? The answer lies in the turmoil wracking the eastern Mediterranean at the time.

After succeeding Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, Harry S. Truman won the presidency in his own right in 1948, defeating Republican Thomas Dewey and achieving one of the most stunning political comebacks ...