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Originally Posted by Bucco
Truman....the reluctant President...if you havent read the book on his life, I suggest it.
What Romney has to do that this president could have done is spend his energy in getting the house and senate on the same page.
If you read about HOW he handled the Olympic problem, he exhibited many of the qualities being discussed !
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I have read a couple books on his life, as well as a couple on Kansas City politics in which he was prominently featured. The part that is really fascinating is the period prior to his national political career. He was backed for judge of jackson county (Greater KC MO.) by the pendergast machine, but refused to do their bidding after he was in office. Still pendergast admired him. At the University of Missouri in 1964 when his name was brought up in a political science class, he was booed by many in the lecture hall. Funny how those perceptions change with time.