President Truman was elected the 33rd president of the United States of America in 1945 after Franklin Delano Roosevelt's sudden death. He is a man who ended World War II with the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan. People argue that he saved hundreds of lives but in the end he made the only decision he could. President Truman tried his best to progress the nation through the Cold War era. He passed the Marshall plan rebuilding of Europe which has long been recognized as one of the great humanitarian accomplishments of the 20th century. He supported European economies to build in order to prevent them from turning into communist and the communism spreading.
Through an executive action he also desegregated the US Armed Forces creating one strong and united army under one nation. In the end Truman also prevent the United States from heading into a major war with all of North Korea and China together. He fired Gen. MacArthur when he disobeyed orders and attempted to attack North Korea and use nuclear weapons. The firing of MacArthur prevented any major war within the Soviet's and the United States.
The reason why President's such as Nixon and Johnson do not deserve to be president is because they had no faith in their nation. President Nixon was a man who lied to his nation and because of him the country citizens would no longer have trust in their president's cabinet ever again. Johnson should also not be remembered as a man who progressed because he refused to run for another presidency because he saw that he did not do his job as a president in the Vietnam War.
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