TRUMAN, Harry S. Printed document signed ("Harry S.Truman") as President, mimeograph press release of his State of the Union Address, The White House, 7 January 1953. 16 pages, folio, stapled, page 1 loose. Top of page 1 headed "Hold for release Confidential." TRUMAN'S LAST STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS The complete text, boldly signed at the end, of an important address by Truman, just two weeks before the inauguration of his successor, Dwight Eisenhower: "...This is the eighth such report, that I, as President, have been privileged to present to you...it has been my custom to set forth proposals for legislative action. But...today...I wish to speak of the course we have been following the past eight years." Truman outlines the momentous national and world events during his tenure, beginning with the death of President Roosevelt and the "great white flash of light, man-made at Alamogordo [which] heralded swift and final victory in World War II--and opened the doorway to the atomic age." He describes economic challenges since the end of the war, predicting that "rising expenditures for defense will substantially outrun receipts." Policies which began under Roosevelt's New Deal have been carried forward, he writes, and new strides have been made to promote equality of opportunity for "our fellow citizens who have been held back by prejudice." The most vital issue, Truman asserts, is maintenance of peace, and the avoidance of nuclear war, in spite of the diametrically opposed systems embodied by the U.S. and Soviet Union. "For our part, we in this Republic were--and are--dedicated to the truths of the Declaration of Independence." He details the nature of the threat posed by the Communist block, and the burdens it places upon the free world, the nation and the President, who "has not only to carry on these tasks in such a way that our democracy may grow and flourish and our people prosper, but he also has to lead the whole free world in overcoming the communist menace--and all this under the shadow of the atomic bomb." Finally, he pledges support to his successor, Eisenhower, noting that "in the great work he is called upon to do he will have need for the support of a united people with firm faith in one another and in our common cause."
TRUMAN, Harry S. Printed document signed ("Harry S.Truman") as President, mimeograph press release of his State of the Union Address, The White House, 7 January 1953. 16 pages, folio, stapled, page 1 loose. Top of page 1 headed "Hold for release Confidential." TRUMAN'S LAST STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS The complete text, boldly signed at the end, of an important address by Truman, just two weeks before the inauguration of his successor, Dwight Eisenhower: "...This is the eighth such report, that I, as President, have been privileged to present to you...it has been my custom to set forth proposals for legislative action. But...today...I wish to speak of the course we have been following the past eight years." Truman outlines the momentous national and world events during his tenure, beginning with the death of President Roosevelt and the "great white flash of light, man-made at Alamogordo [which] heralded swift and final victory in World War II--and opened the doorway to the atomic age." He describes economic challenges since the end of the war, predicting that "rising expenditures for defense will substantially outrun receipts." Policies which began under Roosevelt's New Deal have been carried forward, he writes, and new strides have been made to promote equality of opportunity for "our fellow citizens who have been held back by prejudice." The most vital issue, Truman asserts, is maintenance of peace, and the avoidance of nuclear war, in spite of the diametrically opposed systems embodied by the U.S. and Soviet Union. "For our part, we in this Republic were--and are--dedicated to the truths of the Declaration of Independence." He details the nature of the threat posed by the Communist block, and the burdens it places upon the free world, the nation and the President, who "has not only to carry on these tasks in such a way that our democracy may grow and flourish and our people prosper, but he also has to lead the whole free world in overcoming the communist menace--and all this under the shadow of the atomic bomb." Finally, he pledges support to his successor, Eisenhower, noting that "in the great work he is called upon to do he will have need for the support of a united people with firm faith in one another and in our common cause."
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