The Day the World Learned Truman Wasn't Roosevelt...

April 23, 1945, White House: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov stood in the Oval Office facing President Harry Truman. According to multiple documented accounts from those present, Molotov had just received a verbal lashing from the new American president. Just eleven days after Truman became president following Roosevelt's death, everything had changed. Molotov, according to eyewitness accounts, was visibly shaken. He told Truman: "I have never been talked to like that in my life." Truman, according to the documented account, responded: "Carry out your agreements and you won't get talked to like that." According to Charles Bohlen's notes taken during the meeting, Truman confronted Molotov about Soviet violations of Yalta agreements in Poland. Truman demanded the Soviet Union fulfill its commitments. The tone, according to eyewitness accounts, was sharp and direct—completely unlike Roosevelt's diplomatic style. In his memoirs published in 1955, Truman wrote about the meeting: "I gave it to him straight. I let him have it. It was the straight one-two to the jaw." This was the day the world learned Truman wasn't Roosevelt.

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