Harry Truman's New Deal

The death of Franklin D. Roosevelt changed many things regarding the US and Soviet positions in Korea, says Julian Zelizer. He argues that Truman's first stab at a legacy making policy was known as the fair deal. But passing a foreign aid bill for Europe was a tall order for Harry S. Truman, writes Zelizer. In 1947 he unsuccessfully vetoed the Taft Hartley Act that demolished labor unions' ability to organize.