Asked about the arms holdup, Trump pleaded ignorance. Regardless of whomever was responsible for this incompetence, the ...

History Lesson The Truman Show Bush’s Department of Homeland Security plan is modeled on Truman’s 1947 national security reorganization. Here’s what Harry got wrong.

Seventy years ago, Democratic President Harry S. Truman signed into law the National Security Act passed by a Republican Congress. No legislation in U.S. history more fundamentally altered the way ...

Seventy years ago today, on July 26, 1947, President Harry Truman signed into law the National Security Act. The scholar Douglas Stuart has rightly called it “the law that transformed America.” Some ...

Harry Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 after Franklin Roosevelt's death elevated him to the presidency. How has the succession plan fared since then -- through presidential ...

In 1947, after three years of debate and considerable controversy, Congress passed the National Security Act, which President Truman signed on July 26. That law unified the separate Army and Navy ...

On Sunday afternoon, June 29, 1947, President Harry Truman’s motorcade pulled up to the rear of the Lincoln Memorial. There, he was greeted by Walter White, head of the National Association for ...

On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed one of the most consequential documents of the 20th century. Executive Order 9981 desegregated the military years before the Supreme Court or ...

Description Author Roy Brownell discusses the Presidential Succession Act of 1947's applicability to the presidency of Harry Truman.

Joe Scarborough’s “Saving Freedom” recalls how politicians in 1947 took the lead in fighting isolationism and redefining America’s role in the world.

Jeffrey H. Bloodworth is security fellow at the Truman National Security Project (trumanproject.org), a Democratic Party-aligned national security and leadership development organization based in ...

Seventy years ago, Democratic President Harry S. Truman signed into law the National Security Act passed by a Republican Congress. No legislation in U.S. history more fundamentally altered the way ...