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Truman did fight the commies fairly consistently - not great or all out, but about as good as one could expect from a Dem and certainly better than his old Soviet-cuddling boss Franklin Roosevelt.

I'm afraid Ann is a little rough on that theory. She says that Truman has the same anticommunist bona fides before the 1946 Republican takeover of Congress as Bill Clinton had welfare-reform bona fides before the 1994 one. Namely, none at all.
She says that Truman and Dean Acheson snubbed Churchill after his "Iron Curtain" speech, and offered Stalin the opportunity to give a rebuttal speech in America--and a ride on the USS Missouri to get here . . .

She says that Truman has the same anticommunist bona fides before the 1946 Republican takeover of Congress as Bill Clinton had welfare-reform bona fides before the 1994 one. Namely, none at all.

That may be a little harsh on Harry, especially since he wasn't in the Roosevelt Admin all that long. I suppose we should be thankful though that he was picked in 1944 instead of Henry Wallace again. Just think of it. Roosevelt dies, Wallace becomes president, and every communist thug in the third world has an open friend, ally, and supporter of his revolution sitting in the US White House. They had it almost that good under Roosevelt, but Wallace would have been open about it.