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To: DScottD who wrote (14383)	4/22/1998 12:17:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) of 20981

Harry was more an accident than maverick - as a Senator he was a mediocre New Dealer evincing no maverick qualities. (He had been a failure in all his previous endeavors and was a product of the notoriously corrupt Pendergast machine). Harry was chosen from obscurity for the VP simply because FDR wanted someone who was innocuous, someone who was precisely not a maverick. Remember, Henry Wallace had been a maverick as Veep and was fired by FDR because of it. Harry rose to power through the machine, not despite it. Few suspected FDR was almost dead when they ran in 1944 and certainly few considered Truman a worthy successor. Though he proved a better President than people expected, I don't think that would make him a maverick. (In fact, the two mavericks of 1948, Wallace and Thurmond, probably assured Truman his winning plurality). I do think that Truman shared one quality with Reagan, he was willing to make and stick with unpopular decisions because he knew they were right. Perhaps that was because polling was in its infancy then, but eschewing expediency is certainly the thing that sets Truman so far apart from Clinton, who seemingly sets policy by weather vane.

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