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Why Was Harry S. Truman Necessary?

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Congress did not deem it necessary to arrange for a pension for former Presidents. Kennedy also had money. Johnson, too, had money, so they never thought it was necessary. Even though he was the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. Truman left office in 1953 and did not have a pension. I’m not even sure that he was entitled to social security as a federal employee. There was a pension bill, but, for some reason it stagnated. Truman moved to Missouri into the home of his in-laws. Prior to 1958, U.S. Presidents who left office received no federal pension or other financial assistance. Some former Presidents—like Herbert Hoover and Andrew Jackson—returned to wealthy post-presidential lives. Other former Presidents—including Ulysses S. Grant and Harry S. Truman—struggled financially. Still others—including Andrew Johnson, John Quincy Adams, and William Howard Taft—served formally in the federal government after their presidencies. In 1958, …show more content…

It was not a lot of money, especially for a former leader of the free world, but from what I understand, he was grateful. Before he was President, Harry S. Truman was a State Senator. Then he became the Governor of Missouri and was later selected by President Roosevelt to be his Vice President. Truman did not know anything about what was going on as far as his role was concerned, because he had not been in office that long. But he was apparently a fast learner. However, he was out of office when Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in as our 34th President in 1952. For some reason, Eisenhower never did like Truman. Truman had been in the services and had only reached the rank of captain. Eisenhower probably figured, “I’m a Supreme Allied Commander of the whole armed forces, and you’re down, down low.” But for whatever reason, Eisenhower just did not like him, and that did not

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