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Yeah, I think the pressies & "The Intelligencia" hated Truman almost as much as they hated Bush & Cheney..."To err is Truman" & other such jibes come to mind. But looking back at him from a vantage point of 60 years, yeah, the guy had guts. He canned MacArthur's butt, he integrated the Armed Forces, & he held the country together in the immediate post-war era, & kept MOST of the rampant inflation at bay...Plus, for better or worse, HE made the decision to drop the bombs on Japan which ended the war, & prolly ultimately saved a LOT of lives-Ours AND theirs. I doubt if I'd be here, as my dad would have been drafted in '46 for the invasion of the Japanese home islands, & they were expecting something on the order of at least a million-million & a half casualties...
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