"When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It"
Yogi Berra
Today is the birthday of an American President who followed Yogi's advice....instead of following the most successful Leftist President, Franklin Roosevelt, he learned the political truths that Roosevelt, in his desire to be a dictator, wouldn't.
1. On this day, May 8th,1884, Harry S. Truman, 33rd Pres (1945-1953), born in Lamar, Missouri. He was the first President to take office in the midst of a war. He was the first President in 50 years without a college education. For the first time a President shifted the nation from a war footing to a peacetime economy without suffering a depression.
He issued a 21-point message called his Fair Deal, calling for full employment, and other economic powers.
Here is where he took 'the fork in the road'.....In foreign policy, he issued the Truman Doctrine to curtail Russia, and announce the Marshall Plan.
In 1948 he issued a civil-rights program to end religious and racial discrimination. Minutes after the state of Israel was announced, President Truman recognized the sovereignty of the nation over the objections of his Secretary of State Marshall.
Harry Truman...leading the way back to an American presidency.
2. Early on, Truman fell under the sway of the larger-than-life Roosevelt, a man who yearned to break the restrictions of the Constitution, and swim with the other sharks, Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin.
According to "The Man of Independence," an authorized Truman biography by Jonathan Daniels, it was Max Lowenthal, a crafty southpaw government lawyer, who first corrupted Truman's mind with Marxist prejudices against railroads, insurance companies, and "big business" generally.
Lowenthal was counsel to a Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee. In 1936 Truman, an eager member of the subcommittee, fell under Lowenthal's spell. When Lowenthal proposed to take him to see Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the country boy said he was "not used to meeting people like that," but he went anyway and became a disciple of "the great liberal," who held forth on the evils of the American economic system.
Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution," p. 137.
a. Truman moved so far to the Left, that after his election, he received this salute from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,: "The conceptions of the intellectual are at last beginning to catch up with the instincts of the Democratic politician."
But the love affair with Russia, under Truman, was short lived.
Tell you why in a moment.
Yogi Berra
Today is the birthday of an American President who followed Yogi's advice....instead of following the most successful Leftist President, Franklin Roosevelt, he learned the political truths that Roosevelt, in his desire to be a dictator, wouldn't.
1. On this day, May 8th,1884, Harry S. Truman, 33rd Pres (1945-1953), born in Lamar, Missouri. He was the first President to take office in the midst of a war. He was the first President in 50 years without a college education. For the first time a President shifted the nation from a war footing to a peacetime economy without suffering a depression.
He issued a 21-point message called his Fair Deal, calling for full employment, and other economic powers.
Here is where he took 'the fork in the road'.....In foreign policy, he issued the Truman Doctrine to curtail Russia, and announce the Marshall Plan.
In 1948 he issued a civil-rights program to end religious and racial discrimination. Minutes after the state of Israel was announced, President Truman recognized the sovereignty of the nation over the objections of his Secretary of State Marshall.
Harry Truman...leading the way back to an American presidency.
2. Early on, Truman fell under the sway of the larger-than-life Roosevelt, a man who yearned to break the restrictions of the Constitution, and swim with the other sharks, Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin.
According to "The Man of Independence," an authorized Truman biography by Jonathan Daniels, it was Max Lowenthal, a crafty southpaw government lawyer, who first corrupted Truman's mind with Marxist prejudices against railroads, insurance companies, and "big business" generally.
Lowenthal was counsel to a Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee. In 1936 Truman, an eager member of the subcommittee, fell under Lowenthal's spell. When Lowenthal proposed to take him to see Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the country boy said he was "not used to meeting people like that," but he went anyway and became a disciple of "the great liberal," who held forth on the evils of the American economic system.
Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution," p. 137.
a. Truman moved so far to the Left, that after his election, he received this salute from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,: "The conceptions of the intellectual are at last beginning to catch up with the instincts of the Democratic politician."
But the love affair with Russia, under Truman, was short lived.
Tell you why in a moment.
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