Articles by Ronald Takaki

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Hiroshima: The Myth of “Military Necessity”
Ronald Takaki – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2014

Harry S. Truman was an accidental president. He had been sworn into office only months earlier, when Franklin D. Roosevelt suddenly died on April 12 [1945]. Feeling inadequate to fill the shoes of the great F.D.R., he had to face indignities and sarcasm. In the streets, people asked, “Harry who?” and mocked him as “the little man in the White House.”

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