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To: Bridge Player who wrote (61366)	4/24/2008 10:03:59 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542196

Thanks very much for the Truman stuff, BP. I'm generally a bit leery of official stuff--this is after all from the official senate website. But the section you clip here is very specific, which gives it a bit more credence. And the section on the way Roosevelt handled it is classic FDR. He tells Wallace he supports him, Byrne he supports him, and then tells Truman he supports him. That was part of FDR's style of governing. It's clear, let's assume accuracy for the moment, that Truman was picked because he was, among the possibles, the least objectionable. Not a strong argument for a VP. Or a future president. The US just got lucky on that one. One of the reasons I keep putting this in brackets is that I learned from Robert Caro's work on LBJ, just how much distance there can be between the story well beneath the story and the public one. Too bad Caro never did a book on FDR or Truman. I may, in fact, just out of curiosity, go back and look at David McCullough's Truman book on this point. Thanks again.