<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:621812e1-6c88-431d-949a-f62112404a18" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body><a id="p1"/> <h1 class="PN">Part I</h1> <hr class="halfwidth"/> <h1 class="chaptertitle parttitle">April 12, 1945</h1> <blockquote class="indent3"> <p class="left "> <em>If ever I felt the awesome dimensions of history, it was in that room, that night.</em> </p> </blockquote> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <blockquote class="indent3"> <p class="right ">—Truman’s only child, Margaret, on her father’s swearing in</p> </blockquote> </body> </html>