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To: corporal spewchunks who wrote (1024)	5/1/1999 1:55:00 PM
From: corporal spewchunks	Respond to of 2018

In response to literally hundreds of requests (OK, about 10)for my "real" identity, I will only say that I come from a rich political tradition. My forebears were some of the finest people to ever fix an election. Here's an excerpt about my grandfather: Truman and Pendergast Robert H. Ferrell No portion of the political career of Harry S. Truman was more fraught with drama than his relationship with Thomas J. Pendergast. In one of their earliest meetings, the two men were momentarily at odds after Truman, who was then presiding judge of Jackson County, gave a $400,000 road contract to a construction company in South Dakota, and Pendergast, the boss of Kansas City, wasn't very happy about it. He had someone else in mind for the contract. Their association thus had its disagreements, but their common interest in politics was enough to establish a long-lasting relationship. In 1934, after considering fourteen other men, Pendergast sponsored Truman for the Senate. Although Truman had often cooperated with Pendergast on patronage issues, he had never involved himself in the illegalities that would eventually destroy the Pendergast machine. In fact, Truman had no idea how deeply the Boss had engaged in corruption in his personal affairs, as well as in managing the government of Kansas City. When the Boss was sent to Leavenworth for tax evasion in 1939, Truman was astonished. Despite Truman's honesty, his relationship with Pendergast almost caused his defeat during the Missouri senatorial primary in August 1940. The main challenger for Truman's Senate seat was the ambitious governor of Missouri, Lloyd C. Stark, who after destroying Truman's sponsor, the Pendergast machine, denounced Truman as "the Pendergast senator." Behind the governor was President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom Stark turned against Truman. Roosevelt wanted Missouri's electoral votes in his forthcoming bid for a third term, and he believed that Stark could give them to him. Because of the stigma of Truman's Pendergast connection, the 1940 Democratic primary was the tightest election in his entire political career. He won by fewer than eight thousand votes. In Truman and Pendergast, Robert H. Ferrell masterfully presents Truman's struggle to keep his Senate seat without the aid of Pendergast and despite Stark's enlistment of Roosevelt against him. Ferrell shows that Truman won the election in his typical fashion--going directly to the people, speaking honestly and like one of them. May 1999. 184 pp. 6 x 9. Biblio. Index. 28 Illus. ISBN 0-8262-1225-5. $24.95t. Other Works by Robert H. Ferrell Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman 1910-1959 The Dying President: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945 Harry S. Truman: A Life Ill-Advised: Presidential Health and Public Trust The Kansas City Investigation: Pendergast's Downfall, 1938-1939, by Rudolph H. Hartmann Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman The Strange Deaths of President Harding Truman in the White House: The Diary of Eben A. Ayers Complete Catalog Order Information and Order Form University of Missouri Press Home Page Search All University of Missouri Press Pages I have dedicated my life to erasing this blot on the historical record! I am now a high tech guru literally worshipped by the masses. I have pledged myself to eternal vigilence and battling "funksterism" in all of its many incarnations. Only as a secondary goal am I dedicated as well to making money on my investment in Aspect. Notice that I say this is a "secondary" goal. But in the spirit of candor, I have to say that it is moving up fast on the list of things to accomplish before I die. Lord, how long must I wait? (From a short story I wrote entitled "The Workings of the Psychotic Mind in Crisis," Harper's Bizarre, 1/11/92.