The First 100 Days: Harry Truman Showed Decisiveness and Intelligence
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Truman rose, aided by Cathoiic Tammany Hall bosses
Truman, a Christian capitalist, hated anti-Capitalist Reds and was surrounded by advisers who felt the same way. FDR and Stalin were good friends, planning warm peaceful coexistence after the war. But FDR died and Truman announced his Truman Doctrine, to "Contain Communism." Keeping its Yalta agreement to the minute, to declare war on Japan as soon as Germany surrendered, the Red Army crossed the Manchurian border to take Japan from Its West. But Truman, heeding advisers, nuked two cities to prevent the USSR from having anything to say in postwar Japan. Christian MacArthur ran Japan and kept many fascist Japanese in power because they knew how to operate government. MacArthur was adulterous with a woman he kept in an apartment for some time. Truman was not a good president. FDR was surprised when the Party suggested him as VP.
Harry Truman
We always loved the man, he didn't talk like most politicians he told it like it was. He was a good man.
