Sunday, January 26, 2014

On Author Fred Siegel's Assertion that Leftist Intellectuals Such as Arthur Schlesinger and John Kenneth Galbraith Detested Harry Truman

I'm probably going to go with, "yet another ginormous reason to like and respect Harry Truman to the max", folks.

9 comments:

BB-Idaho said...

I'd add Douglas MacArthur and Thomas Dewey...

dmarks said...

From the band Chicago. I'm sure you know the song well:

America needs you
Harry Truman
Harry could you please come home
Things are looking bad
I know you would be mad
To see your favorite men
Prevail upon the land you love

America's wondering
How we got here
Harry all we get is lies
We're gettin' safer cars
Rocket ships to mars
From men who'd sell us out
To get themselves a piece of power

We'd love to hear you speak your mind
In plain and simple ways
Call a spade a spade
Like you did back in the days
You would play piano
Each morning walk a mile
Speak of what was going down
With honesty and style

America's calling
Harry Truman
Harry you know what to do
The world is turnin' round and losin' lots of ground
Oh Harry is there something we can do to save the land we love
Oh woah woah woah

America's calling
Harry Truman
Harry you know what to do
The world is turnin' round
And losin' lots of ground
Harry is there something we can do to save the land we love
Oh
Harry is there something we can do to save the land we love
Harry
Harry is there something we can do to save the land we love.


More appropriate now more than ever, right? The problem of corruption (men who sell us out)... and coincidentally we are seriously close to sending rocket ships with people in them to Mars.

dmarks said...

...and I'll be curious to see what BB says about Truman. I know he lived through the guy, for sure. My mother did, and she hated him.

Rusty Shackelford said...




I think it was Harry's daughter who tried her hand at singing....it was a friggin train wreck.

BB-Idaho said...

In response to dmarks, Truman was the first celebrity I ever saw:
went by on the back of a train when I was 7. My Dad was a big
Robert Taft fan, my grandma worshipped MacArthur and I was intrigued with the mysterious
Atom Bomb. In hindsight, Truman
was dumped into the presidency as a sort of naïve bumpkin. IMO, he
did OK, considering: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, desegregating the military:
the Korean 'police action' (the only police action we won). We learn that FDR and Churchill played close to the vest, and he
inherited the end of the most
destructive war in history. The
A-bomb? I agree, considering the alternative. IMO, he understood
Stalin better than Churchill and FDR combined. Grandma? Guess she had a thing for uniforms.

dmarks said...

Yes, Rusty, but she then became a very successful author of mystery novels.

Which is fine. I'd be willing to venture that A. Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie couldn't sing worth crap, for that matter.

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

My favorite Democratic Presidents are Cleveland, Truman, Kennedy, and Clinton (the stipulation being that he's kept on a leash) and if I had to pick just one it'd probably be Truman.

Rusty Shackelford said...



Really dmarks.....I did not know that about her.

About a month ago I watched McArthur with Gregory Peck....the movie made both Truman and McArthur out to be pricks.

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

They were pricks but they were our pricks.......Wow, that didn't come out quite right.