Defence Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld toured the presidential library, visited with guests, spoke and took questions from the audience.
Rumsfeld toured the library and paid tribute at Truman's grave site in the library's courtyard before telling about 200 veterans group members, community leaders and library supporters he's inspired by Truman's decisive leadership in an age of uncertainty.
Truman took "truly historic steps that have had a lasting effect" on the nation and the world, Rumsfeld said. And even when those measures weren't popular, "he had the wisdom and the courage" to carry them out," he said.
The secretary noted striking similarities between the Cold War and today's terror war, and said Truman's strategy for victory holds important lessons for today.
Rumsfeld said many strategies that worked then are being put into practice today.
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
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