About 15 years ago I read David McCullough‘s biography of Harry Truman. I knew next to nothing about Truman before I read the book and the book and the story was simply fascinating. The amount of chit that was instantly laid on Truman‘s table was simply astonishing yet he managed to more or less fumble his way through it more or less successfully. Not to mention the absolute fiasco of how to integrate all of our soldiers back into society post World War II. So Truman has also risen in stature in my opinion.
When Eisenhower was toying with the idea of running for president Truman fully thought Eisenhower was a Democrat and desired to conscript him to run as the Democratic candidate. Eisenhower played coy until the very end when he announced that he was running as a Republican, and then just think about it….The interstate highway system? Does anyone think that something like that could ever happen again with our broken political system? Not only do “we†fight about minutia, we fight about virtually everything and nothing simultaneously.
I Like Ike too…
