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"The folks can never understand why the President will not use his forces to make them act. Well all the leader is, is a glorified pr man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to encourage them to do what they are supposed to do anyways." - Harry Truman A lot of printer ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most important statistics, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to accelerate on the lives of America's most significant men and women in enough time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long neglected or never known. Among America's presidents, Harry Truman's presidency produced some of the nation's most important decisions and remaining one of the nation's most unique legacies. When President Franklin Roosevelt perished in Apr 1945, Vice President Truman, relatively unprepared for the Presidency, now was required to fill some of the biggest shoes in American record. Incredibly, Truman had not been up to date of the country's key attempt to build atomic bombs, confiding in his diary after learning about it, "We have uncovered the most awful bomb in the annals of the world. It may be the fire devastation prophesied in the Euphrates Valley Age, after Noah and his fabulous Ark." The new leader was required to usher America through victory in European countries in his first month and decide to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki a few months later, however the end of World Conflict II produced only the to begin many consequential decisions Truman would face during his almost eight years in office.
