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Individual:
Succeeded to the presidency upon the sudden death of Franklin D. Roosevelt on
April 12, 1945. Was reelected in 1948 over Thomas E. Dewey, Strom Thurmond,
and Henry A. Wallace by a popular vote of 24,179,345 to 21,991,291, 1,176,125,
and 1,157,326, and an electoral vote of 303 to 189, 39, and 0. Was sometimes
called "Give-'em-hell-Harry". Coined the phrases "If you can't stand the
heat, get out of the kitchen." and "The buck stops here." Gave the order to
drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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