42K views · 67 reactions | "He had a very shaky last term..." Jeffrey Frank revisits Harry Truman’s presidency - including the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, and dropping the first nuclear bombs. Watch, Saturday on C-SPAN 2 at 2pm ET. https://www.c-span.org/video/?519048-1/the-trials-harry-s-truman | American History TV | Facebook

Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower both presided over the early years of the Cold War. This week on "Speeches that Defined a Presidency" we feature Truman's 1949 inaugural address, Eisenhower's "Little Rock Crisis" in 1957, and Ike's 1961 farewell address where he warns of a growing "military-industrial complex." | American History TV