“Truman, of course, was no prize,” but he was better than any of the other choices and a lot better than any Democrat that followed him.
Actually, no. He was an epic fiasco. His refusal to allow MacArthur to follow through in China to defeat Mao set the stage for everything to this day. A Nationalist China under Chiang would’ve been an ally to us and there wouldn’t have been a Communist proliferation (or wins) in Korea or Vietnam. He also did nothing to stop an increasing Communist infiltration of our government and institutions. He was more indignant at the claims than anything else. He was the product of a corrupt urban political machine in Kansas City.