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9/24/48 - President Truman on Whistle Stop Campaign with Elliot Roosevelt also on the Train.
The slogan “The Buck Stops Here” became widely identified with former President Harry S. Truman.
11/4/48 - President Truman with Bernard Dickmann, at the St. Louis, Missouri Union Station. President Truman is holding up the Chicago-Tribune headlines “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.”
10/15/50 - President Truman meets Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur at Wake Island.
Portrait of President Truman.
1953 - The Former President takes a stroll in his hometown of Independence, Missouri.
Harry S. Truman home in Independence, Missouri.
7/20/45 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. George Patton, and President Truman at the ceremony at the U.S. Group Control Council Headquarters in Berlin, Germany, where the American Flag was first officially raised. President Truman is in Germany to attend the Potsdam Conference.
1952 - Harry and Bess Truman reading on the balcony of the White House.
1/20/49 - President Truman giving the inaugural address.
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