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With the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945, Vice President Harry S. Truman assumed the Oval Office.
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FDR dies, and Truman being the vice president, he becomes the new president
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Delivered a message to Congress which laid out his vision for postwar America.
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Truman presented to Congress a lengthy and rambling twenty-one point message that nonetheless attempted to set the post-war political and economic agenda
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Throught 1946 Truman sends most soilders home.
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Truman appointed a biracial Committee on Civil Rights to look into race relations.
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Passed the Taft-Hartley Act. This act allowed the President to declare an 80-day cooling-off period during which strikers had to return to work, if the strikes were in industries that affected the national interest.
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Truman sent a special message to Congress on civil rights announcing the he had “instructed the secretary of defense to take steps to have the remaining instances of discrimination in the armed services"
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Truman banned discrimination in the hiring of federal employees.
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The Fair Deal was an ambitious set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in his January 1949 State of the Union address.
