Harry Truman’s Presidency

When Harry Truman became president he faced many of the United States problems head on. The challenges were the raising threat if communism, and also bring back the nations economy to a strong state. The economic problem that Truman had to put his mind on was riots, many people facing high prices on things and also the wages that people were getting paid. He made many narrow minded statements threatening to draft worker to work in the mines, and also to take control of all the railroads. In 1947 the Taft Hartley act was passed over Truman’s veto. This bill made it so that many bills were overturned and also rights were won back. Which mad the new deal work more smoothly. In 1946 Truman put everything on the line when the talk about civil rights was on the table. “ I am asking for equality of opportunity for all human beings” pgs 637. Truman congress did not approve of any civil rights equality, So every bill or act that Truman bought to them they shot him down. But 1948 Truman took a stand for .