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When Franklyn D. Roosevelt dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President of the United States this week in April 1945. Truman endorses the ERP - European Recovery Program - names it after Secretary of State George Marshall, the Marshall Plan. Helps create NATO. Initiates Berlin Airlift to thwart Stallin's opposition and Russian troops stranglehold on Berlin. Creates institutions that integrate the states of Europe and eradicates or erases the trade tariff restrictions paving the way for Europe to Unite and for the Euro to be developed to compete against the US Dollar for position as the global standard of value and worldwide monetary domination. Events in history from which we can learn lessons if we will heed.
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During this week in 1945 an American President died from natural causes. In the second week of April 1945, Franklyn D. Roosevelt had been in office for only three months after beginning his fourth term as President (the two-term limitation having not been ratified by Congress until 1951) for the Presidency of the United States. On April 12 in 1945 and quite unexpectedly, Roosevelt died -- and that same day in April, Vice-President Harry S. Truman was sworn in to become the 33rd President of the nation. The United States at the time had become one of only two nations to be considered the world's super-power nations following the devastation done to powers and resources once held by France, Germany, Great Britain and Japan during World War Two.
Just before taking the oath for the office of President, Harry S. Truman whispered, ''I'm not big enough for this job.'' So, he immediately be...
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INTRO:This is Stephen Lloyd with a look at ''This Week In History.''
OUTRO:... that sprang from his coming into the office of the President of the United States in this week in 1945. This is Stephen Lloyd with a look at ''This Week In History.''
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