He was the thirty-third president of the United States. He was born on May 8, 1884 to a family of farmers in Lamar, Missouri. He had poor eyesight, which restricted him from playing many sports, but he was an exceptional reader and played piano in his spare time. He became president prior to Roosevelt’s death at the age of 63. Truman gave a speech to the press the following day stating how he felt about the former president’s death. In the speech, he stated, “When they told me yesterday what happened, I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.” While president, many people became aware of his stubbornness. For example, when discussing the bombing of Japan with opposing Columbia University students in 1959, he said, “All this uproar about what we did and what could have been stopped- should we take these wonderful Monday quarterbacks, the experts who are supposed to be right? They don't know what they're talking about. I was there. I did it. I would do it again.” On the whole, Harry Truman contributed vastly in politics during the early nineteen …show more content…
With the booming economy and mass produced homes in the suburbs, lots of couples were having children. It began in 1946, when there were approximately 3.4 million births reported. From there on, approximately 4 million babies were born each year all throughout the decade. That meant that there were approximately forty million babies in the United States by 1960. The end of the Baby Boom was around 1964. By this time, there were a total of 77 million babies. These babies would be called “Boomers”, since they were part of this phenomenon. Briefly, the Baby Boom was a rare phenomenon that was centralized in this