Pros And Cons Of Truman

President Harry Truman was a successful president by definition. He was thrust into power as the thirty-third president of the United States after the rapid decline of President Theodore Roosevelt's health. This paper is organized around several major successes of President Truman, but mainly focusing on his twenty-one point plan of reform, also known as The Fair Deal, and the Manhattan Project. In regard to Richard Neustadt’s terms, a president should be evaluated on his or her ability to persuade. Put simply, it does not matter if any adversaries disagree if you are able to persuade them otherwise. Neustadt describes this advantage derived from adept persuasion, “When he induces people to do what he wants done, a President can trade on their

Part of his success is attributed to the mass popularity he had gained with what was known as “The New Deal Coalition”, the label put on the group of his supporters who were responsible for Truman’s incumbent victory against Thomas Dewey. All of the aforementioned circumstances, not to exclude Truman’s approval ratings, surely predicted massive failure. This shows the “power of persuasion” that Truman had truly mastered. This power of persuasion became invaluable in 1946, when the Republican party gained control of Congress in the mid-term

After saving the nation billions of dollars, reforming social security, and practically eliminating job discrimination, President Truman created a doctrine to conduct the way the United States responded to the advance of negative political influence around the world. In addition to the opposition and dark decisions Truman was faced with in World War Two, President Truman was then forced to face a Congress that was the opposite of his executive administration. Not only did President Truman think of how his actions and decisions would effect the nation during his presidency, but also far into its future, as shown through the Truman Doctrine. Richard Neustadt explains this concept quite