Harry S Truman

David Moye

Naked Cowboy Is Among More Than 300 Less Publicized Presidential Candidates

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 02.20.2012

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Can't stand President Obama? Not prepared to cast a vote for Mitt Romney or anyone else vying for the Republican nod? How would you like a candidat...

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Free Bird: The History Of Presidential Turkey Pardoning

Mental Floss | David Moye | Posted 11.22.2011

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Each year, a few days before Thanksgiving, the President of the United States formally pardons a live turkey presented to him by the National Turkey F...

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Friday Talking Points -- Give 'Em Hell, Barry!

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.09.2011

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Chris Weigant

President Barack Obama opened his re-election campaign last night with a wowzer of a speech to a joint session of Congress.

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White House Cover-Up: When Harry Truman Censored the First Hollywood Movie on the Atomic Bomb

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.25.2011

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Greg Mitchell

One of the great tales of Hollywood "censorship" remains little known today, nearly 65 years after it transpired. And who was right at the center of it? None other than President Harry S. Truman. He even got rid of the actor playing him in the MGM movie.

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Ranking the Presidents Since WWII

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nigel Hamilton

If, on Presidents Day 2011, I had to rank the last twelve presidents since America became the world's most powerful empire in World War II, I'd put them in the following order.

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Give 'Em Hell, Barry!

Cody Gault | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cody Gault

This President is soft on progress. Yes, he inherited an economy driven to the brink by Republican irresponsibility and, yes, preventing a second G...

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How the First Nuclear Blast, 65 Years Ago Today, Set Truman on Path to Hiroshima

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Greg Mitchell

There is no way any American president would have gone ahead with an invasion -- scheduled for several long months after the Trinity test -- knowing that he had an A-bomb in his pocket.

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McClellan, MacArthur, McChrystal

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ariel Gonzalez

Militarizing the presidency obviously undermines the principle of civilian control, which the McChrystal kerfuffle brought to the forefront.

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GOP Spews Hypocrisies as BP Rig Gushes Gallons Into Gulf

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brian Ross

The GOP will be hitting Fox News again this week with an ironic demand that the government, which they say in all other circumstances cannot do anythi...

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The Mustache Movement

Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.17.2011

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Jerry Zezima

I may not be British, but for the past three decades, I have kept a stiff upper lip. Now, after all these years of hair-raising adventure, I am celebrating the 30th anniversary of my mustache.

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Barack Obama: Left-Handed? Right-Handed? Ambidextrous? Ambivalent?

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Finkle

I suspect the convictions that seem somewhat wobbly now that Obama has attained the nation's highest office would immediately strengthen if he looked his two hands over and committed once and for all to the left one.

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Guys Who Wear Bow Ties: Love It Or Lose It? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two weeks ago when we asked "Who's the best-dressed Supreme Court Justice?", your answer was Justice Sandra Day O'Connor for her signature lace jabot....

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Rep. Hechler to President Obama: Time for a Harry S. Truman Moment in the Coalfields

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Biggers

Standing at the Massey Energy mountaintop removal operation last month, the 94-year-old Hechler showed no sign of retreating on this egregious violation of human rights and the environment.

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Palin Ain't no Truman

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Diane Francis

In 1934, Truman was elected as a U.S. Senator and for the next ten years undertook a distinguished career in Washington DC representing the people of Missouri.

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