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On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 10:14:05 -0400,
wrote:

Given Harry's belligerent reticence to share his alleged education, I
thought it might be appropriate to do a little digging about Harry S
Truman and his VP nomination. It didn't take long to pull up a few
credible snippets like this one fom the US Senate historical web site:

Just bear in mind that you are reading about politicians by
politicians and it may be a bit sanitized.

Wallace was simply too far left for the prevailing power structure and
was seen as being a little too friendly with the Soviets.
In retrospect that might have resulted in a different outcome in Korea
but whether that would be better is still conjecture.
It is hard to imagine anything worse than a war that killed 58,000 GIs
and just put us back to the same stalemate we had in 1945.

There was also a question of how he might have ended the war in Japan
(nuke them or not)