Truman Resigns Presidency (1952)

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Harry S Truman resigns Presidency - Washington DC, United States of America.
American newsreel item with commentary.
L/S of President Harry Truman and his wife Bess Truman alighting from car at night. M/S of Trumans being welcomed back to White House after a holiday. M/S of group of photographers. M/S of Truman holding up the new key to the rebuilt White House. M/S of officials entering White House.
General view of the Jefferson Jackson dinner two nights later. L/S of Truman arriving and walking through lane of diners. General view of the dinner scene. C/U of Mrs Truman and National Chairman Mr McKinney seated at table. L/S of Truman addressing the gathering. M/S of Truman speaking. He says he will not be a candidate for re-election, saying "I have served my country long and I think efficiently, and honestly I shall not accept a renomination. I do not feel that it is my duty to spend another four years in the White House. [Shouts of protest from the audience.] We must always remember the things the Democratic party has done and the high ideals that have made it great. We must be true to its principles and keep it foremost in service of the people. If we do that we can be sure that there will be a Democratic President in the White House for the next four years".
M/S of Mrs Truman leaving table and waving goodbye with President Truman. C/U copy of the Resignation speech in Truman's own handwriting.
Item ends abruptly - section missing.
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@billhowes7464 2 года назад

Truman did not resign. He chose not to run for a second full term. He had served the balance of Roosevelt's fourth term and was elected to a full term in 1948. He chose not to run again in 1952. Adlai Stevenson got the nomination for the Democrat party and was defeated by Eisenhower in 1952 and again in a romp in 1956 even after Ike had suffered a heart attack in 1955.

@Realnews-lk6vv Год назад

The party kicked him out just like crazy lbj

@kenb3552 Год назад

@@Realnews-lk6vv Wrong on both counts.

@rdk162 Год назад

Truman didn't run because he knew there was no chance he would win. He was one of the most unpopular presidents in history. Probably right around the same level as Biden. A lot of people don't like Trump but he did very well for the people of this country and no one will ever give him credit for doing so.

@kenb3552 Год назад

@@rdk162 What are you smoking? Trump's poll numbers were worse than Biden's - and Biden had to pick up the mess inherited by Trump whereas in 2016, Trump was handed a sound economy and a rising stock market. Biden's lowest approval has been 38%. Trump's approval rating when he left office was 34%. Biden's numbers are now trending back upward as we are finally coming out of the Trump disaster he left Biden with in 2021. Another fun reality fact for you - Trump's 41% average approval rating over his one-term presidency is four points lower than any other president in the polling era. Worse than Truman - worse than Biden.

@davemclaughlin8625 Год назад

Truman knew him or any Democrat couldn't beat Eisenhower in the general election especially after 20 years of democratic presidents . Truman let Stevenson take the loss.

@christopher3386 Год назад

We don't really use the word "resign" when one Presidency passes to another. We say he chose not to run for a second term.

@KevinCovington5453 Год назад

ONLY ONE HAS EVER ACTUALLY RESIGNED! Richard M Nixon in 1974 After The Watergate Breakin.

@bluegregory6239 11 месяцев назад

In Truman's case, a second FULL term, granted that his first term was shorter than normal, and his entire Presidency tumultuous, given the end of WW2 and the inception of the Cold War and Korean War. After extensive research, I conclude that HST never expected to become President in the first place, but he handled it with decisiveness and grace. One of the 6 best American Presidents ever.

@johndufford5561 11 месяцев назад

Harry Truman did NOT resign, sir. He simply chose not to run for re-election. That's not the same thing at all! Get your facts straight. Will your next incorrect video tout LBJ "resigning" the presidency? No. He simply refused to run for that office again.

@v-town1980 11 месяцев назад

@@bluegregory6239Plus he was the "Bomb(s)!"

@charlesvan13 Год назад

Truman didn't resign. He just didn't run again in 1952 after serving from April 1945 to end of 1952, which is nearly 2 terms.

@shehannanayakkara4162 Год назад

It's a British newsreel so they were probably using phrases familiar to viewers. In parliamentary systems like the UK, the prime minister finishes their term by "resigning", after which the monarch appoints a new prime minister (these days the majority party just votes for a new party leader and the monarch always appoints them as the new prime minister). If a prime minister's party loses an election, technically they are still prime minister until they resign. And technically they don't have to resign, though they would very likely face a vote of no confidence after which the monarch would probably fire you if you tried staying on even after losing that.

@josephasner171 11 месяцев назад

Charlesvan 13: Right on al counts. whoever posted this video really goofed bigtime.

@charlesvan13 11 месяцев назад

@@josephasner171 I'm pretty sure that Nixon is the only president to resign. 8 presidents died in office, with 4 of those being by assassination, 4 by natural causes.

@caomhan84 2 года назад

Truman is a guy that so many people who don't think they've accomplished much in their life can look to. Fatherhood at 40, senator at 50, President at 60. Plus he got the ONE person he'd always loved after years of pursuit. No, it doesn't work out like that for everyone, but he's an example that sometimes it does. Life doesn't happen on a set path for everyone.

@tn1149 Год назад

You forgot the part where he was a terrible president and human being.

@TheWalterKurtz Год назад

He was a soldier too.

@CrossOfBayonne Год назад

@TheWalterKurtz And the one who dropped the first Nuclear Bombs.

@TheWalterKurtz Год назад

@@CrossOfBayonne; That had been decided before he replaced FDR. Harry just signed the papers. The Allies burned up more women and babies in Europe and Asia with conventional munitions than atomic munitions. Lemay admited after the war that had we lost he would have been tried as a war criminal.

@swbeyer8349 Год назад

@@CrossOfBayonneNot sure whether I like this comment or not. Truman warned the Japanese leaders at the time to surrender or face total annihilation. They Japanese military leaders did not listen. War is an horrendous waste of manpower and material and should be ended as quickly possible with the loss of the least amount of life as possible. The planned invasion of Japan in 1945 would have cost millions of unreplaceable lives on both sides. As horrendous as the loss of life at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the invasion of Japan in 1945 would have been even more horrendously wasteful and unnecessary.

@tb1534 Год назад

He never resigned the Presidency. He just did not accept the nominstion

@johnleader8737 11 месяцев назад

Bess was like, "Let's get the hell out of here before he changes his mind".

@LBF522 11 месяцев назад

She was certainly happy that he was not going to run again.

@Daniel-od6ft Год назад

Truman was the last President who had the possibility of serving more than 10 years in office since he was exempted by the text of the 22nd amendment from the term limits it set out of being elected no more than twice or, if they served more than 2 years of a term to which someone else was elected, being elected no more than once. Since Truman served as President for more than 2 years of the 1945-1949 term to which FDR was elected, he would have been prohibited from being elected for a 2nd time in 1952 but since he was exempted he could have technically run as many more times as he wanted and been elected for as many terms as he could win. He had the distinction from the ratification of the 22nd amendment in 1951 until his death in 1972 of being the only person exempted from the term limits enacted by the 22nd amendment.

@phillipcumming5746 Год назад

This is the correct answer. However, you are wrong about one thing. There is one other man who was exempt, Herbert Hoover Who died in 1964

@briandfallon74 11 месяцев назад

@@phillipcumming5746you are not correct. The Amendment does “not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.” Hoover was not President when the Amendment was proposed officially on March 21, 1947 nor when it became operative on Feb 27, 1951. By the plain language, the person holding the Office of President on those dates was Truman. The exemption applied only to him.

@talespinner4515 Год назад

Pres. Truman never resigned. But I can see why the UK would call it resigning. It is just different in the US.

@Edwards-Videos Год назад

He didn't resign. He chose not to run for re-election.

@tomb7942 Год назад

He knew he had no chance against IKE.

@1940limited Год назад

Yes!

@MattMorris481 Год назад

Bess Truman was something, when he was done with his speech she was getting her purse and ready to go thank god I don’t have to be First Lady anymore.😂

@kurtishall9492 Год назад

It was said when he made the announcement, she looked at him like a poker player with four aces in her hand.

@DaemonovEarth Год назад

Thought the exact same thing! 😂She was like "Let´s get out of here! I really need some vacations."

@stephenkammerling9479 11 месяцев назад

Like many others, I saw the photo of Truman being inaugurated with Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Truman near him. Mrs.Truman's facial expression was one of absolute horror.

@chuckschafer942 11 месяцев назад

@@stephenkammerling9479 REMEMBER SHE WAS IN SHOCK OVER ROOSEVELTS DEATH

@stephenkammerling9479 11 месяцев назад

@@chuckschafer942 Likely she was, like so many other Americans. I'm sure many people wondered how this relatively unknown person would do, especially with the war still going on. It was almost over in Europe, less than a month awsy.

@TheWalterKurtz Год назад

I never realized he could have run again. I was 9 years old when Johnson did the same thing. Scared the crap out of me.

@briankady1456 Год назад

And some 16 years later, LBJ did the same thing Truman did.

@dalek3086 11 месяцев назад

LBJ did not do the same thing. LBJ got his ass whupped in the primary in New Hampshire by Senator Eugene McCarthy. Then LBJ quit.

@robinhess9570 3 месяца назад

Truman lost 1952 Democrat New Hampshire primary

@abushahab9423 Год назад

Misleading caption. He said he will not run for re- election. It is not the same as resigning like Nixon did

@bm-wt3zf Год назад

He was eligible for reelection in 1952, but with weak polls he decided not to run.

@davidbarker7938 Год назад

He barely won in '48

@Mdebacle Год назад

Truman ran in the New Hampshire primary and lost to Estes Kefauver.

@AlunThomas-mp5qo Год назад

@@davidbarker7938 It was unbelievable how Truman was elected over Tom Dewey in 1948.

@1940limited Год назад

@@AlunThomas-mp5qo No more unbelievable than Biden rigged in 2020.

@jwchamberlain5862 Год назад

He wouldn't have defeated Ike in 1952. Nobody could of.

@ChrisDutch Год назад

He had lost the New Hampshirite primary so I’m guessing that’s almost a vote of no confidence. That’s very similar to what happened to Lyndon Johnson in 1968,who barely won New Hampshire.

@paules3437 Год назад

Title is misleading. This isn't Resigning. "Declines Nomination" would be more accurate.

@evanshiong3557 Год назад

FYI: by the time he would’ve been making this statement, he had an approval rating of 22% - that was also George W. Bush’s approval rating when he left office. I feel like that’s not reflective of his overall presidency at all. The Berlin Airlift, desegregating the army, Marshall Plan - those were all good. He got a lot of crap then, but now historians (and me) largely consider him an above-average president.

@bluegregory6239 11 месяцев назад

Me, too. Harry Truman was a good man and a great resident.

@nl5828 11 месяцев назад

the dropping of the 2nd nuclear bomb onto the city of nagasaki was and remains a war crime. there could be an argument made to justify the 1st nuclear bomb (personally i would disagree with that argument and also consider that a war crime), but the 2nd bomb was unjustifiable. if stalin had ordered those weapons to be used, the americans would have been the 1st to describe that as a war crime.

@danielebrparish4271 2 месяца назад

Eisenhower was a war hero and international celebrity so I don't think anyone could have come close to beating him. He probably could've won without having to campaign at all.

@daviddaniel387 2 года назад

I bet bess was ready to hug him she hated idea of being first lady

@davidbarker7938 Год назад

Truman didn't resign.

@keithss67 Год назад

Ummmmm he didn’t resign. He simply didn’t run again

@patrickbentzley3618 2 года назад

Just a great guy😎

@tenzinnorgyal1421 Год назад

Yes Truman new home delivered in hell already kill genocide innocent in japan 1million peoples in disaster nuclear now he meet to be hitler in hell

@alanstrong55 Год назад

Uncle Harry did the right thing by allowing himself to make that exit. Too much commotion across the pond.

@acastrohowell Год назад

Good President Truman ❤

@andrewwilson1313 11 месяцев назад

Well…..he announced that he wouldn’t run for re-election. He didn’t resign the US presidency. Only Nixon has done that.

@dnr111042 Год назад

He’s be turning over in his grave now

@johncassani6780 Год назад

I recently saw a recording of a young JFK on Meet the Press in 1952. He was being asked about the election, and what his own plans were, and what he thought of Eisenhower. I found it very interesting that no one was sure which party Ike would choose, if he chose to run. He probably could have gotten the nomination from either party, but it would have been unseemly for him to try as a Dem, to unseat his former boss. I can see how the Brits would have considered this a resignation, especially following FDR’s four elections.

@AlunThomas-mp5qo Год назад

Eisenhower would never have been a Democrat, he had an extreme dislike for both Truman and Stevenson.

@NathanDav42 Год назад

Truman asked Eisenhower to run as a Democrat multiple times. Even offered to run as his VP in 1948. Bad polls or not, Truman was determined to run if the GOP nominated Republican Senator from Ohio, Robert Taft over Ike. Taft was against the UN, the New Deal, and much of what FDR built while Ike was not. When Ike won the nomination over Taft, Truman was relieved because he knew whether the winner was Ike (as everyone expected) or Dem nominee Adlai Stevenson, FDR’s programs (and Truman’s) would be in large part continued.

@stephenkammerling9479 11 месяцев назад

@@AlunThomas-mp5qoStevenson was a sacrificial lamb, and I'm sure he knew it.

@aumarigan 11 месяцев назад

$100 a plate affair. Wow. $100 is quite large in 1952.

@danielebrparish4271 2 месяца назад

About $1,200 in 2024

@josephdunlap6747 Год назад

He knew Eisenhower would win the Presidency! 🙏

@richardcope5066 2 месяца назад

So Fascinating to watch the transformation from the man nobody wanted to the man nobody wanted to see go.

@Americaone1 Год назад

President Truman finished FDRs last term after his death could have run in 1952 but decided against it......famous Truman quote "if you want a friend in Washington Get a Dog🐕😁😁😁😁🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

@coryjorgensen622 11 месяцев назад

Leave it to the British to misunderstand American politics: he did not resign, he just didn't seek re-election. There's a big difference.

@Omar.R Год назад

He knew about UFOs / UAP majestic 12, Roswell crash etc .. maybe it was too much to handle for him

@ruthc8407 Год назад

Truman was our last honest president.

@elliottschertzer876 Год назад

President Truman was not popular at this time between firing general, MacArthur and the antics Sen of Joseph McCarthy

@hubertwalters4300 Год назад

Imo,I think removing Gen.McArthur from his command was what drove him down in the polls to 15%,and made him decide not to seek reelection in 1952.

@omegaman6770 Год назад

@@hubertwalters4300I totally agree , although it was a move he had to make it didn’t sit well with the American people.

@v-town1980 11 месяцев назад

If only we had Truman today. The east would know we're in charge!❤

@davidrusso1280 Год назад

He did not resign???!!!

@gregmiller9710 Год назад

great man

@1940limited Год назад

So Eisenhower ran against Adlai Stevenson and slaughtered him twice. Good move.

@trevornilsen3261 Год назад

$100 a plate is an expensive meal. That's $1150 in today's money

@jwchamberlain5862 11 месяцев назад

Curious what the bill 'o fare was like then

@grahamnancledra7036 Год назад

I'm resigned to the fact that he didn't run.

@canalesworks1247 Год назад

Underrated POTUS.

@alanprior7650 Год назад

Saw the US become a nuclear superpower and tried to make the post war era as safe as possible. To me (as a former Brit and now US citizen) I think he was truly honorable.

@TheMrSuge 11 месяцев назад

He's not really under rated. Truman was certainly unpopular when he left office, but present historians rank him high

@canalesworks1247 11 месяцев назад

@@TheMrSuge They rank FDR too high and Truman not high enough.

@TheMrSuge 11 месяцев назад

@@canalesworks1247 FDR was a great president.

@canalesworks1247 11 месяцев назад

@@TheMrSuge He's overrated.

@vrmartin202 Год назад

Fun eye-catching title, but he did not resign.

@mrpeel3239 Год назад

Had completely forgotten that HST chose not to run, again.

@Robert-eg2oy 7 месяцев назад

Truman, our greatest president, ever.

@bioveraorganics4369 11 месяцев назад

The only man who authorized the use of nuclear weapons. Twice. RIP.

@juancevallosteran1369 Год назад

Golden times

@DavidFleming-xk1ur Год назад

After Roosevelt's death Truman took over and he want on to the another term, this was created by CGI the video is to clean because never seen a clear image of him

@randyseay4855 Год назад

Where do you get that he resigned? He simply announced that he would not run for reelection. He served until his term ended- that is not resigning. You are misinformed.

@crixxxxxxxxx 11 месяцев назад

Bess wasted no time wanting to get the hell out of there.

@franclaxa8717 11 месяцев назад

This title misleads. Truman did not resign but rather opted not to pursue reelection reminiscent of the first US president's forgone opportunity. He might not have won anyway.

@CAROLUSPRIMA Год назад

Truman did a few things that were right but very unpopular. His standing among historians started rising on his first day out of office and continues - such that now he is regarded as a “near great” President. He was scrupulously honest, unusual given that his primary backers were all mobbed up. He didn’t help himself by going to Pendergast’s funeral. But he went anyway.

@JK-br1mu 10 месяцев назад

He shouldn't have gone to that criminal's funeral. Sends the wrong message, that voter fraud and other crimes are okay.

@maureencora1 11 месяцев назад

Wrong Title of This Video. Do Your Homework, R.I.P. #33 President H.T.

@CosmosNut Год назад

Correction to the video header - Truman did not resign and I can't understand why it is said other than possibly a language barrier thing?? Please correct it as it is a glaring error !!

@davidhess6593 21 день назад

Truman didn't resign. He remained President until January 20th 1953 when Eisenhower succeeded him.

@bluegregory6239 11 месяцев назад

This title is misleading. President Truman did not resign; he chose not to run for another term.

@jamescrenshaw5097 11 месяцев назад

He did not resign, please

@zekeonstormpeak4186 Год назад

LBJ did the same thing in 1968, he chose not to run.

@bicknell67 11 месяцев назад

Resign??? Truman did not resign he finished his first full term on January 20, 1953. He just chose not to run again. To date the only President to resign was Richard Nixon.

@NWRCB 11 месяцев назад

He did not resign.

@ziyad359 10 месяцев назад

If I wrote a book about history's worst criminals, this man would occupy a high position on my list

@danielebrparish4271 2 месяца назад

He came very close to losing his 1st election and the stalemate in Korea made him even less popular. People were very tired of war in spite of the general distrust of communisim. The coal and steel industries were on strike all of which contributed to his unpopularity. He was 69 which was considered to be too old for a presidential candidate.

@johnmarquardt1991 22 дня назад

Bad title for the video. Bess Truman was one interesting person - you'll never see another like her.

@jimcoop5663 11 месяцев назад

He didn't resign..

@Johnsmith99663 7 месяцев назад

As of December 2023, only one person has resigned the US Presidency: Richard Nixon.

@jamesbrent2504 Год назад

He would be saddened and horrified by the state of his party today & might possibly leave it.

@132indo Год назад

considering he was a segregationist, considered blacks and chinamen inferior, he probably would be appalled lol

@coffee1940. Год назад

He was an honest man.❤

@ocramble Год назад

His party? How can anybody even compare to the Repugnant Party?

@kevinmorgan8534 Год назад

HST would be appalled by the Dems and Ike would not have liked the Reps.

@SOCALHD Год назад

Seems like this was more than just 9 years ago.

@jonkore2024 Год назад

It was definitely above his pay grade

@davebowker1113 11 месяцев назад

He didn’t resign

@bambur1 11 месяцев назад

Truman resigned ? Ohh British news . He didnt seek a second term

@mikeswan9832 4 месяца назад

A year after he fired MacArthur. General MacArthur had his butt scared 😂😂 rip Mac

@shawnmichaelduncan5951 11 месяцев назад

He knew after firing McArthur he was finished

@mikemondano3624 11 месяцев назад

Not a resignation.

@ndubanesol111 2 года назад

The true patriot, a warrior, the ancestor of nuke bombings. The love for America made this great statesman to detonate that little boy in Hiroshima on 06 August 1945. You made a mark, death of people would not be celebrated but the lesson thereof.

@squid.com8927 Год назад

How many more Japanese would have died if Truman had decided to invade instead

@darmoklizard1729 Год назад

@@squid.com8927 It wasn't about how many more Japanese would have died...it was about how many more AMERICANS would have died. The Japanese were defeated, they just refused to surrender. President Truman decided enough Americans had died because of Japanese stubborness, and he had the means to stop it.

@squid.com8927 Год назад

@@darmoklizard1729 yes I know

@shahrulamar5358 11 месяцев назад

LBJ does the same in 1968. 🇺🇸

@centredoorplugsthornton4112 11 месяцев назад

The 22nd amendment had been ratified to the US Constitution, setting a 2 term limit for the president, and specifying whether the vice president who suceeded his predecessor and became president the way Truman succeeded Roosevelt, could serve 1 or 2 terms on his own.

@jmkeupp 11 месяцев назад

Who writes this stuff? Truman did not resign.

@TheMercilessEye Год назад

Disliked for misleading title. Fix this, or more will follow.

@reubenj.cogburn8546 11 месяцев назад

Your choice of words is incorrect. I think it is somewhat slanderous to have purposely mis-titled upload. Shame on you

@DaveFury 11 месяцев назад

Truman did not resign. Read into history much? For Chrissakes. In the USA, Richard Nixon is the only president ever to resign.

@SaltiDawg2008 Год назад

*Moronic title. He did not resign!!!*

@VinnyUnion Год назад

Greatest moment in American history - hands down!!!

@aldunlop4622 Год назад

I’m not American so neither Republican or Democrat, but occasionally I like to remind our modern Democrats, bathing in their current glory and stating their righteous pacifist ideals, that it was a Democrat that dropped the Bomb…

@troubledsole9104 11 месяцев назад

It ended the war.

@II21___1. Год назад

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