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The Truman biographers analyze him too deeply. Truman was just a high school graduate former clothing store owner who was in way over his head. He was hand picked by the crooked democrat establishment simply because he was a dummy and the movers and shakers could push him around. The liberal media created a fake legacy for Truman like they did for all the democrat administrations in the 20th century.
While a great deal of that is true, Truman showed the strength and insight necessary to try to reverse some of the damage done by Roosevelt.
In a President, vision is more important than what might be considered high IQ.
Thus...
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
― William F. Buckley Jr.
You can measure I.Q. but "vision" is subject to speculation. Truman was a capitalist for sure but he didn't have a clue about the international threat of communism. When House democrats created HUAC Truman went along with it and later on went along with the media and blamed a single republican senator when the anti-communist era went sour.
Truman was, early on, exactly what you say.
The point of the thread is that he learned, and, to an extent, became very different from the Rooseveltian appeasers of Stalin.
If you don't believe that America owes him a debt, then read about Henry Wallace....what we could have had.