President Truman spoke these words the day after he took office. "Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now. I don’t know if you fellows ever had a load of hay fall on you, but when they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.”

–Harry Truman,
1945

Based on this quotation, Truman was overwhelmed by his,
Responsibility to oversee the war in its final days.
decision to order atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
belief that fighting in the Pacific would cost too many lives.
Order to invade Normandy in what is known as D-Day.