April 14, 1945 is remembered as President Truman’s first day as Chief Executive. FDR died on the twelfth and he was sworn-in shortly after that. Just what he did with the rest of that day, much less on the thirteenth, is a mystery to me – but, let it be known here and now that his first day exercising his Presidential Authority was on the fourteenth. He met with the brass caps from the Pentagon, planned speeches, spoke on the telephone with numerous New Deal grandees and shook many, many hands.
“When a reporter addressed him as ‘Mr. President,’ he smiled, and said: ‘I wish you’d never had to call me that.'”
Click here to read about the busy life of President Franklin Roosevelt.
Click here to read more about President Harry Truman…
