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Harry S. Truman Building
WAP2000092204 - 22 SEPTEMBER 2000 - WASHINGTON, DC, USA: President Bill Clinton chats with the Secretary of State Madeline Albright and John Truman, the Grandnephew of President Harry S. Truman, at a ceremony on the occasion of renaming the State Departmant building "The Harry S. Truman Building" September 22, 2000 in Washington, DC. cc/cc/Chris Corder UPI

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Bill Clinton: Truman's belief in global neighborhoods still relevant
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award winner, said Truman's belief in building neighbors globally remains relevant today.
Deployment of warships delayed over budget concerns
The U.S. Defense Department said it was delaying the deployment of two warships to the Middle East because of budgetary concerns.
Not grandfather's Lincoln
Ford 's plans for its languishing Lincoln car brand are being met with hopeful bemusement.
UPI Almanac for Thursday, July 26, 2012.
Harry Truman's newspaper bill paid
A Harry S. Truman impersonator paid the 33rd U.S. president's outstanding $56.63 newspaper bill at a ceremony in Kansas.
Thirty of the country's 44 presidents are immortalized in Minneapolis' Northeast neighborhood, where Presidents Day is marked with a trivia contest and a walk.
The commander of the U.S. aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman has died suddenly at a hospital in Portsmouth, Va.
Obama pardons turkey, hands out food
U.S. President Barack Obama waved his hand over Courage the turkey Wednesday, pardoning the bird from being the guest of honor at a Thanksgiving Day feast.
Every new president of the United States wants his inaugural to be a "renewal of hope," but true "renewal of hope" inaugurals aren't that common: President-elect Barack Obama's will be the first in 28 years since Ronald Reagan took office in 1981.
Like his predecessors Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, President Dwight David Eisenhower in the 1950s was not bashful about asserting American influence and power, but his wartime experience led him to resist interventions that involved the open-ended commitment of U.S. ground forces to altruistic missions.
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Greek national flags fly over Tiananmen Square during Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras state visit to Beijing on May 16, 2013. Samaras is in China seeking investment and trade deals to help revive his country's recession-battered economy. UPI/Stephen Shaver