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TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts) Tue Sep 19, 2023, 12:24 AM Sep 2023

Plain Speaking with Ed Flanders

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No idea where I got this from, but Harry Truman was indeed one of the greats, even if he did give Pendergast a pass, of sorts.

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Plain Speaking with Ed Flanders (Original Post) TreasonousBastard Sep 2023 OP

never saw that before lapfog_1 Sep 2023 #1

Greatly underappreciated president IMO pecosbob Sep 2023 #2

Thank you for that link. dmr Sep 2023 #6

I kept reading this as "Ned Flanders" MusicLikeDirt Sep 2023 #3

Me, too! dmr Sep 2023 #4

Hidilly diddly! MusicLikeDirt Sep 2023 #5

I highly recommend David McCullough's audiobook biography of Truman pecosbob Sep 2023 #7

lapfog_1

(29,223 posts)

1. never saw that before

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Tue Sep 19, 2023, 03:02 AM

Sep 2023

and now we know where "Give 'em hell, Harry!" comes from... and the reply "I don't give 'em Hell, I just tell the truth and they think its Hell"

He didn't like Ike... and he didn't think much of the Kennedys either.

But he sure has Trump's number, even if he had never heard of Trump.

pecosbob

(7,543 posts)

2. Greatly underappreciated president IMO

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Tue Sep 19, 2023, 03:19 AM

Sep 2023

He personally spearheaded the drive to streamline the war production effort, eliminating 'waste, inefficiency and war-profiteering' that were costing thousands of American lives during WWII (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Committee). Also was responsible for the modernization of our entire Federal government and brought us into the 20th century.

dmr

(28,349 posts)

6. Thank you for that link.

Reply to pecosbob (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 19, 2023, 07:48 AM

Sep 2023

I read it all ... fascinating and interesting.

MusicLikeDirt

(27 posts)

3. I kept reading this as "Ned Flanders"

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Tue Sep 19, 2023, 04:56 AM

Sep 2023

hididdly ho neighburritos!

Nowadays, a show like this wouldn't fly.

Requires WAYYYY too much attention span for nowadays people.

Whodathunk I'd look back on the 1970s or 1980s as a "simpler time."