Those sentences, much quoted since, were an understatement. At the time, Hitler was still alive in his bunker and the battle for Okinawa was under way, and although Truman had chaired a Senate committee looking into the domestic defense program, he was almost entirely unprepared for the job.
Truman knew next to nothing of what F. Cabinet members, if they had anything to discuss, tried to see him privately after the meetings. He had hardly had time to be Vice-President. Three months after taking the oath, Truman was in Potsdam discussing the fate of postwar Europe with Churchill and Stalin, relying on briefing books and a small group of advisers, most of whom he barely knew. The possibility of a sudden succession now plays a larger part in the selection of Vice-Presidents, but not always.
Truman himself, when he ran in , chose an elderly Border State senator, Alben Barkley, of Kentucky, as his running mate. Richard Nixon, who called on the former senator and U. By a stroke of national good luck, Agnew was replaced by Representative Gerald Ford when he resigned ten months before Nixon did the same.
George H. Wilkie of Ohio; , Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. FDR was first inaugurated as 32nd President on March 4, The date of March 4 was set by the 12th Amendment to the U. Effective in , however, the presidential inauguration date was changed to January 20 by the 20th Amendment. Truman of Missouri January 20, - April 12, Stettinius, Jr. Secretary of Treasury William H. Woodin, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Secretary of War George H.
Dern, Harry H. Woodring, Henry L. Stimson, Cummings, Francis W. Frank Murphy, Robert H. Jackson, Francis Biddle, Postmaster General James A. Farley, Frank C. Walker, Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Forrestal, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, Claude R. Wickard, Secretary of Commerce Daniel C.
Roper, Harry L. Hopkins, Jesse H. Jones, Henry A. Wallace, What were fireside chats and how many did FDR make during his presidency? When FDR became president in , he believed that the best way to comfort and inform the public about his administration and its policies was to address them on the radio.
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