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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, speaks after unveiling the Congressional statue of former President Harry S. Truman during a ceremony in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Statue of Harry Truman unveiled in U.S. Capitol Rotunda

Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 1949, file photo, Brigadier Gen. Wallace Harry Graham, right, personal physician of President Harry S. Truman checks his blood pressure in the president's office in Washington. Seventy years ago, before Medicare existed to inspire “Medicare for All,” a Democratic president wrestled with a challenge strikingly similar to what the party’s White House hopefuls face today. Harry Truman, then in his fourth year of pressing for a national health insurance system, parried criticism of his approach in terms that a single-payer health care advocate might use in 2019.(AP Photo/Henry Griffin, File)

Contrasts between Truman and Biden

By L. Scott Lingamfelter

In this Thursday, March 11, 2021, photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, people load into a presidential limousine once used by President Harry S. Truman in front of the Harry S. Truman Little White House Museum in Key West, Fla. A ride in the limo, one of the vehicles that transported Truman during his 1945-1953 presidency, is part of the museum's recently debuted &quot;White Glove Tour,&quot; providing small groups views of Truman objects not on public display. America's 33rd president spent nearly six months in Key West spread over 11 visits while in office. (Steve Panariello/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP)

Florida Keys visitors can ride in President Truman limousine

Associated Press

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: The left has no Truman now

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Unexampled Courage’ by Richard Gergel

By John Greenya

In this Saturday, May, 19, 2018 photo, Waco ISD social studies specialist Robert Glinski holds a signed copy of Harry S. Truman's 1960 memoir, &quot;Mr. Citizen&quot; found last week in the Waco High School's library in Waco, Texas. (Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune-Herald via AP)

Signed Harry S. Truman autobiography found at Waco library

By J.B. SMITH - Associated Press

Harry S. Truman Associated Press photo

Truman as a model for Donald Trump

By Victor Davis Hanson

U.S. and Turkey Headed for Showdown

By Eric Brown

U.S. President Harry S. Truman. *File photo (AP Photo/File)

Harry Truman’s unpopular civil rights leadership

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

U.S. President Harry S. Truman holds up an Election Day edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune, which mistakenly announced "Dewey Defeats Truman" on Nov. 4, 1948. Associated Press photo

When the polls also erred in 1948

By Thomas V. DiBacco

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Devotion’

By Thomas W. Schaaf

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Truman, Congress and Korea: The Politics of America’s First Undeclared War’

By Joseph C. Goulden

Illustration on Hello Barbie and robot companionship by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

SUZANNE FIELDS: The robots are coming, with not much yet to say

By Suzanne Fields

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership’

By Joseph C. Goulden

Davy Crockett Associated Press photo

WES PRUDEN: Trying to be gracious on a bitter night

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Conservative Internationalism’

By Wes Vernon - Special to The Washington Times

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is garnering praise by media and some politicians by reaching out to black voters, but some fellow Republicans think his effort is folly. The potential 2016 presidential candidate is taking a big risk by trying to bridge the gap between the party of Abraham Lincoln and a bloc that has overwhelmingly supported Democrats for several decades. (Associated Press)

Rand Paul’s pursuit of black voters splits GOP

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this May 7, 2013, file photo, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sen. Claire McCaskill: Plan to rename Union Station is a winner

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** People are silhouetted against the decorative ceiling and winding staircase in Union Station in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times) ** FILE **

Sens. McCaskill and Blunt seek to honor Truman with Union Station name change

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Harry S. Truman Union Station? Congressional proposal seeks to rename D.C. transit hub

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times