Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), 33rd President (1945–1953), presided over the transformation of the American republic into the permanent imperial state: the atomic bombings, the Cold War doctrine, and the national-security apparatus.
Record
- Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 1945) — the founding atrocity of the American Century, directed at a Japan already seeking surrender, in Infrared's reading a demonstration to Moscow.
- The Truman Doctrine (1947), Marshall Plan, NSC-68: the militarization of foreign policy and the division of the world into blocs under US hegemony.
- National Security Act (1947): CIA, NSC, unified Defense Department — the deep state's charter.
- Loyalty boards and the first Red Scare; seizure of steel mills (1952) blocked by the Supreme Court; the "loss of China" and Korea — the war without victory that established permanent mobilization.
Infrared treatment
Truman is the completion of the Wilsonian conquest: the New Deal's domestic class compromise was preserved precisely by exporting the class war outward as anti-communism. The party of FDR was converted into the party of empire in eight years. Haz cites Truman-era history (the wrecking of Wallace's progressive campaign, the purge of the left from the unions) as proof that anti-communism was always the oligarchy's weapon against the American people themselves.