I saw this one on Yahoo! Message Board regarding Harry Truman.
LOOKING BACK 60 YEARS……
by: toritto2000 02/13/04 12:21 pm
Msg: 81 of 116
2 recommendations…..it seems so strange that an ordinary man. a man who ran a clothing store in Missouri, could not only become President of the United States, but one of the great ones at that.
While he was picked as a VP for FDRs last term because he was considered “safe” and not particularly troublesome, he took the mantle of responsibilty when FDR died and then was elected in his own right against the Republican candidate everyone thought was going to win – Tom Dewey of New York.
We have lost a great deal in the last half century – how impossible it seems for any “ordinary” man to be President…now we will have a choice of one rich guy who went to Yale and lives in Texas vs. one rich guy who went to Yale and lives in Massachusetts.
How sad……
