ABSTRACT
This chapter continues with Truman, but this time observes how he handled the transition period as the outgoing commander in chief. The meetings between Truman and president-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower were tense affairs, made grim by hurt feelings on both sides. This chapter examines the early relationship between Truman and Eisenhower, and how the two who had worked so closely together in shaping the postwar world grew so far apart. The sensitive nature of both men resulted in an unnecessarily stony transfer of power.
