Harry S. Truman
1884 CE–1972 CE · Washington, D.C.
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President, serving from 1945 to 1953 as a Democrat. He succeeded to the office on the death of Franklin Roosevelt, having been Vice President, and oversaw the end of World War II. His administration launched the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, helped found NATO, and committed U.S. forces to the Korean War.
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About Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is the area where the teacher Tara Brach founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington in 1998, one of the larger Western vipassanā (insight meditation) communities, drawing on the Theravāda-derived insight tradition.
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- David Ben-Gurion· 1886 CE–1973 CE
- Jawaharlal Nehru· 1889 CE–1964 CE
- Dwight D. Eisenhower· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- Ho Chi Minh· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- Charles de Gaulle· 1890 CE–1970 CE
- Clement Attlee· 1883 CE–1967 CE
- Chiang Kai-shek· 1887 CE–1975 CE
- Aung San· 1915 CE–1947 CE
- Nikita Khrushchev· 1894 CE–1971 CE
- George VI· 1895 CE–1952 CE
- Edward VIII· 1894 CE–1972 CE
- Haile Selassie I· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Mao Zedong· 1893 CE–1976 CE
- Sukarno· 1901 CE–1970 CE
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