#president harry s. truman

[denimbex1986]

'In case you didn't hear, Oppenheimer has a stacked cast — stacked to a degree that we haven't seen since Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet back in 1996. It's one thing to have a top-level cast of main actors like Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, and Florence Pugh; it's another to have characters that appear on-screen for all of a few minutes be filled with actors like Rami Malek, Casey Affleck, Gary Oldman, and the '90s king himself Josh Hartnett. Whether you knew ahead of time any of these actors would be in this film or not, it provides a small surge of surprise at the moment and makes the audience perk up and pay more attention to what a seemingly small character is doing if it's somebody with a proven screen presence and a history with the audience.

How Does Christopher Nolan Use Casting To Flesh Out Smaller Roles?

Christopher Nolan seems to cast smaller roles in his films with actors who have generally played clear types of characters before. The audience's familiarity with the kinds of characters these actors have generally played in the past fill in the smaller roles in Nolan's films, thereby making it easier for the audience to get a handle on who these people are without fully introducing them through the writing itself. Early on in Oppenheimer, we're introduced to Niels Bohr, a famous scientist who Oppenheimer admired, and he's played by Kenneth Branagh, who imbues him with that feeling of commanding leadership and portentous charisma he brought to his previous roles in Dunkirk and Tenet. This ensures that we know why Oppenheimer looked up to him and was influential in setting him on his path of scientific pursuit.

Or take Gary Oldman, who has arguably the shortest role of all the major actors, since he's in one scene for about three minutes as President Harry Truman, meeting with Oppenheimer after dropping the atomic bombs on Japan. This time, the use of Oldman comes as a misdirection, as his history with Nolan recalls being the honest and good-hearted Jim Gordon in The Dark Knight trilogy, while his heavily prosthetic-laden appearance recalls his Oscar-winning role as historical antifascist hero Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. Except in this film, Truman turns out to be neither; he's a crass and vainglorious bully who hates that Oppenheimer feels guilty for creating the bomb, calls him a "crybaby" and demands he gets out of his office. It's devastating and almost a betrayal to Oppenheimer's character, and the betrayal is magnified by our mixed history of Oldman as both upstanding figures and dastardly villains in mainstream films.

Christopher Nolan Uses Typecasting to His Advantage

Beyond Oppenheimer's cameos, some characters do have larger roles in the movie's plot but are largely defined by their function in service to the plot rather than by their personality. Those roles, then, seem to have been filled with actors who have a consistent reputation for certain characters. Take Dane DeHaan, who plays a military authority figure who works for Matt Damon's character and spends most of his screen time glowering and staring at others with condescension. This comes off as more believable coming from DeHaan since we know him primarily for a history of playing unstable or angry men in projects like Chronicle, Lawless, The Amazing Spider-Man 2. My favorite instance of this practice is David Dastmalchian, an associate of Oppenheimer's rival, Lewis Strauss (Downey, Jr.), who is always defined as being shifty, untrustworthy, and a human rat. Dastmalchian is delightful in this role not simply because he has the perfect big eyes and tight sickly demeanor, but we project his more notable roles as crazed suspicious men like Bob Taylor in Prisoners or the cop that the Joker recruited in The Dark Knight onto this walking red flag of a whistleblower.

If it isn't related to past history, sometimes it's just how an actor looks that perfectly enhances the character. The strangest example of this is Rami Malek's presence. Malek plays a scientist of relative unimportance, who is in two separate scenes where he says nothing and just looks awkward and terrified at making a wrong move. He's such a shivering puppy that you barely register him as even there. So when Strauss is made aware that a surprise witness could blow up his chance at being added to President Eisenhower's cabinet, and he openly wonders who it is, and Rami Malek shows up with his gargantuan moon eyes laser focused with secrets to spill, it's an awesome "oh THAT GUY" moment.

'Oppenheimer' Continues a Great Cameo-Casting Tradition

While this film may have gotten a lot of press for having so many big names in small roles, this isn't really all that new an occurrence for a major film to do. If you look back throughout mainstream film history, there are some great instances of already reputable actors having small roles that drastically enhanced that role's quality. Holly Hunter was already an established Oscar-nominated actress when she showed up for around six minutes in The Firm as Gary Busey's Southern belle secretary who existed mostly for exposition purposes, and her sass and sex appeal exploded off the screen and got another Oscar nomination (the same year she won for The Piano, no less).

Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet got Charlton Heston to perform a monologue that's irrelevant to the plot and got Richard Attenborough for just one scene to deliver the iconic statement that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. In Network, Ned Beatty is in about one and a half scenes where he mostly screams and disciplines Peter Finch about how he was threatening their media relations with his ranting, and it was so memorable that...twist, he got an Oscar nomination. Absolutely none of these roles were at all primed for those levels of success and recognition, but they were elevated to that status by having great actors in the right parts. Similar to Oppenheimer with Christopher Nolan, you get multiple actors to show up for small roles by being a hugely trusted director like Sidney Lumet or Sydney Pollack who are gifted with directing actors.

Christopher Nolan's Clout Attracts A-List Actors

Christopher Nolan has come a long way since Memento. He's now a five-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker (he's bound to add more to that resume, come award season) and one of the few truly auteur-branded directors in the business. At a time when Quentin Tarantino may be making one more film before retiring and most big-name directors get sucked into franchises before they have a chance to form their own identity, Nolan has expertly maneuvered his way through an evolving industry, attaching himself to a franchise he actually believed in and shepherded in order to boost his platform, then delivered on big original projects enough times that he can get a blank check for whatever he wants. With this power comes one of the most potent things a filmmaker can have: clout.

Christopher Nolan's clout attracts A-list actors and actresses out of respect and allure. Plus, his films have a guaranteed audience. On top of that, Nolan is often cited as a dream director to work with, an amazing collaborator who knows how to nudge actors in the direction he needs them to go without being fully dictatorial. If you're a high-profile actor, and you're given a good role by a great director, with a good salary and not much time taken out of your life, what's the downside? Just hope that your director has some good stuff for you to do.'

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[deadpresidents]

"To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches -- not I."

-- President Harry S. Truman, on his political opponents, personal diary entry, December 1, 1952

[starlight-tequila]

I'm probably extremely right and extremely wrong

[my-midlife-crisis]

[uspresidentyaoi]

truman simulator

[thepresidentsblog]

[god-breast-america]

WHY IS HE ALWAYS LEANING IN TO PEOPLLEEEEEEE😭😭😭😭😭

[wafflelovingbatgirl]

Harry Truman, Ulysses Grant, what’s up with the S?

[denimbex1986]

'Barbenheimer has finally come! Last weekend saw record-setting numbers at the box office, and we have no doubt that Oppenheimer and Barbie will continue to dominate theaters across the world for the foreseeable future. Christopher Nolan is responsible for Oppenheimer, and his acclaimed films usually feature a stacked cast of A-listers. His latest effort centers on World War II, when physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer is tapped to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project with hopes of stopping the Nazis and Japan. It was a long ordeal creating the infamous atomic bomb, as evidenced in Oppenheimer's three-hour duration.

A handful of A-list actors play the folks who assisted with making the bomb that dropped on Hiroshima. Since there are so many of them in the film, we took the time to list the finest performances in descending order. Spoilers below!

10. David Krumholtz as Isidor Isaac Rabi

Anyone who saw The Slums of Beverly Hills and The Santa Clause knew David Krumholtz was a star in the making during the 1990s. Decades later, he’s working with Hollywood’s finest directors, including the Coen brothers (Hail Caesar!) and now Christopher Nolan. Krumholtz nails the role as colleague and friend of Oppenheimer's, and his scenes with Culkin Murphy are fun and breezy — even with things get serious. He's always reminding the ever-stressed out physicist to eat, and these moments provide a bit of comic reliief throughout the otherwise grim tale.

9. Benny Safdie as Edward Teller

Behind the camera, Benny Safdie and his brother are responsible for hit indie films like Uncut Gems and Good Time, the latter of which Safdie also starred in. Since then, he’s taken on plenty of other juicy roles, including Pieces of a Woman and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. In Oppenheimer, he dons a thick Hungarian accent as Edward Teller, a physicist who some might remember as "the father of the hydrogen bomb." Safdie has some pretty dramatic moments amid the atomic bomb aftermath.

8. Tom Conti as Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein on the big screen! Lookalike Tom Conti nailed his few scenes as the genius who played a part in Oppenheimer's atomic bomb creation. His on-screen colleague-like chemistry with co-star Cillian Murphy are some of the most powerful across the film's three-hour duration.

7. Josh Hartnett as Ernest Lawrence

He's back! After years away from the spotlight, American actor Josh Hartnett (now 45 years old) has been slowly making his way back into Tinseltown. After a couple of recent Guy Ritchie projects and an interstellar episode of Black Mirror, Hartnett plays a juicy role in Oppenheimer alongside Cillian Murphy, as their characters' team gradually makes their way toward the Manhattan Project's ultimate goal that is the atomic bomb. Hartnett looks the part and so much more. Good to see you again, sir!

6. Gary Oldman as President Harry S. Truman

You may have heard by now that Oscar winner Gary Oldman makes a stellar cameo in Oppenheimer — or maybe you've just seen it for yourself. His White House appearance as President Truman will quickly remind you why he's such an iconic actor. Pictured above is Oldman's previous role in a Christopher Nolan film, from the Dark Knight trilogy. With Oppenheimer, we remember how Oldman is also quite skilled in playing villainous roles. In his lone scene, Oldman's Truman faces off against the titular character in, essentially, a game of verbal chicken. You'll see what I mean...

5. Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock

Florence Pugh's sex scenes with Murphy are making headlines at the moment. In Oppenheimer, the Academy Award-nominated actress plays Jean, an on-again, off-again love interest throughout the film whose mentally-conflicted character ultimately has a tragic ending. Pugh continues to take Hollywood by storm following her other talked-about film from last year, Don't Worry Darling. "Don't get me flowers" is perhaps her most memorable line in Oppenheimer, as she repeatedly tries in vain to turn away the temptations of Murphy's persona during the film.

4. Matt Damon as Leslie Groves

Make that two awards-caliber roles for Matt Damon this year. First came Ben Affleck's Air, where Damon played the Nike guy responsible for signing Michael Jordan himself. With Oppenheimer, Damon tackles a supporting role that was perhaps even more fun to perform, as the wise-cracking U.S. military man who coordinates the New Mexico breeding ground for WWII's atomic bomb. "'Zero' would be nice," he tells Oppenheimer when told that the chances of the whole world ending are slim when they try detonating the atomic bomb.

3. Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss

This is Robert Downey Jr.'s best role in years, and it won't be surprising if he gets an Oscar nomination or win for Best Supporting Actor in the upcoming race. Here, the Iron Man actor plays Lewis Strauss, who's often regarded as a villain in American history thanks to the controversial Oppenheimer security clearance hearings following the atomic-bomb dropping. Thank goodness for a role like this, so that Downey Jr. doesn't remain pigeonholed as Tony Stark forever. His monochromatic scenes are some of the film's most tense and rewarding alongside co-star Alden Ehrenreich.

2. Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer is certainly dominated by male personalities, but that doesn't mean A-listers like Emily Blunt — in addition to Florence Pugh — can't shine as well. Blunt plays Oppenheimer's wife Kitty, who we see spiral into alcoholism as she juggles parenting with a high-maintenance chap like J. Roger.

She may get a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her work here, and the scene that would seal the deal comes in the third act when she's interrogated by Roger Robb (Jason Clarke) during her husband's security-clearance hearings. It's her moment of utter glory and serves as a fresh reminder why Blunt just cannot be stopped. We can't wait for her starring role in the next A Quiet Place installment, of course!

1. Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer

And then there's the man himself, Thomas Shelby — oh wait, that's another beloved Cillian Murphy project, aka Peaky Blinders. Murphy finally gets a lead role in a Christopher Nolan feature with Oppenheimer. Not only is he just the titular role, but he virtually swallows the entire movie whole with his dominating performance — and that's saying something for a film that's overstuffed with a plethora of other famous actors.

He's slimmed down, and you simply cannot look away from those piercing eyes radiating knowledge and terror. If Murphy doesn't get showered in nominations come award season, I will be surprised, to say the least.'

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Title/Name: Harry S. Truman, (1884–1972). Bio: American politician, senator, 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. And briefly as the 34th vice president in 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Country: USA Wojak Series: Bloomer (Variant) Image by: Unknown Main Tag: Truman Wojak

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via wiki:

22/44 assassination plots were against republican presidents.

22/44 assassination plots were against democratic presidents.

Note: It was FDR’s 1932 campaign policies that caused a major shift in party ideologies. Prior to this election, Republican and Democratic conservatism was broadly flipped. Their parties are left black to reflect my inability to equate their affiliation to a modern party.

assassinated United States presidents.

1864– Abraham Lincoln. Republican.

1881– James A. Garfield. Republican.

1901– William McKinley. Republican.

1963– John F. Kennedy. Democrat.

attempts that caused injury.

1912– Theodore Roosevelt. Republican.

1981– Ronald Reagan. Republican.

2024– Donald Trump. Republican.

attempts or plots without injury or death.

1835– Andrew Jackson. Democrat.

1861– Abraham Lincoln. Republican.

1864– Abraham Lincoln. Republican.

1909– William Howard Taft. Republican.

1910– William Howard Taft. Republican.

1928– Herbert Hoover. Republican.

1933– Franklin D. Roosevelt. Democrat.

1943– Franklin D. Roosevelt. Democrat.

1947– Harry S. Truman. Democrat.

1950– Harry S. Truman. Democrat.

1960– John F. Kennedy. Democrat.

1972– Richard Nixon. Republican.

1974– Richard Nixon. Republican.

1974– Gerald Ford. Republican.

1975– Gerald Ford. Republican.

1975– Gerald Ford. Republican.

1979– Jimmy Carter. Democrat.

1993– George H. W. Bush. Republican.

1994– Bill Clinton. Democrat.

1994– Bill Clinton. Democrat.

1994– Bill Clinton. Democrat.

1996– Bill Clinton. Democrat.

2005– George W. Bush. Republican.

2008– Barack Obama. Democrat.

2009– Barack Obama. Democrat.

2011– Barack Obama. Democrat.

2011– Barack Obama. Democrat.

2012– Barack Obama. Democrat.

2013– Barack Obama. Democrat.

2013– Barack Obama. Democrat.

2016– Donald Trump. Republican.

2017– Donald Trump. Republican.

2017– Donald Trump. Republican.

2018– Barack Obama. Democrat.

2018– Bill Clinton. Democrat.

2022– George W. Bush. Republican.

2023– Joe Biden. Democrat.

[deadpresidents]

On May 8th of each year of Lyndon B. Johnson's Presidency, LBJ made sure that he made a phone call to the house at 219 North Delaware Street in Independence, Missouri, where former President Harry S. Truman was living in retirement and celebrating another birthday. Truman would always insist that President Johnson had far more important things to do with his time than call a retired old Missouri politician, and LBJ would insist that he couldn't think of anything more important to do with his time than take a moment to thank Harry Truman for his service to the country.

Truman celebrated 88 birthdays before he died on December 26, 1972, nearly four years after Johnson had left the White House and retired to his ranch in Texas. At the time of Truman's death, LBJ was also a very sick man, but he refused to listen to doctors who urged him not to make the trip to Truman's funeral in Missouri.

When an ailing Lyndon Johnson bowed his head while paying respect before Truman's casket on December 27, 1972, it was the last time many Americans saw LBJ alive. Lyndon Johnson died less than a month later, on January 22, 1973, and was buried in the family graveyard at the LBJ Ranch in Texas almost one month to the day after he stood next to Harry S. Truman's flag-draped casket in Missouri.

[irljuliensorel]

i want to put harry s truman into an oven at 350 degrees for two hours

[mossadegh]

When ex-President Harry Truman said he was “disturbed” by the CIA’s illicit covert activities abroad, it set off a firestorm in the agency he founded in 1947...

The Mossadegh Project