SOCC04H3 Chapter 2: Halberstam (The Fifties)- Chapter 2 Notes
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Harry truman"s fellow citizens elected him to the presidency and yet it was only after he was out of office that people truly came to appreciate the full measure of the man and his virtues: he certainly never wanted to be president but thanks to the considerable muscle of the machine, he slipped into washington as a senator and soon thereafter was given the vice presidential nomination, then a few months after his inauguration, roosevelt died and he became the accidental president, unprepared he may have been but the turned out to have the right qualities; the ability to take considerable pressure and if need be to wave aside momentary political advantage to do what he thought was right in the long run, the backlash against his presidency and the vestiges of the new deal grew more bitter after his election.
