re: #176 dragonath

It’s amazing how brutal contemporary accounts are of Truman when he succeeded Roosevelt. Truman was extremely impressive, I think, because he was the closest thing to a normal. intelligent person, in the best sense, to occupy the White House.

He was alleged to have read all the books in his local library and was very much self educated.

Last president we had that did not have a college degree but he was very intelligent. I think the contemparies were tough on him because here he was not even a few months into the vice presidency. Sure he had been senator for ten years before then but a World War was going on. Truman’s one of my favorites though. I admire his moral courage taking on racial discrimination big time and while it may not be a popular in some liberal quarters, I think he made the difficult but in the right decision on the bomb.