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:

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

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  2. 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.

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  3. ...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.

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

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  5. 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.

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  6. 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.

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  7. 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.

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  8. 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.

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

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