The Truman we think we know is a fictional character invented by the liberal media. The feisty "give'em hell" political persona is an invention. In reality Truman was a timid clothing store owner who's education was limited to the management of a small town business and he was lucky enough to be elected to the senate when nobody cared. Truman authorized the nuclear attack on Japan with two A-bombs while Japan was frantically trying to negotiate surrender terms through our ally at the time, Joe Stalin. Truman was instructed by the remnants of the FDR administration not to negotiate with the Japanese and he followed orders just like he did in WW1. Truman didn't ask for authorization to send Troops to Korea. They were sent by executive order so Korea is Truman's responsibility from beginning to end. The liberal media wasn't interested in the conflict at the time and give 'em hell Harry got away with a truce at the cost of 50,000 Americans lost in three years. The media still supported him but the grass roots American public hated him so much that he could not withstand a primary fight for his 2nd full term so he retired from politics under a cloud and jumped in his Buick and drove back to Missouri.
A moment, whitey....
Let's be thankful for the intercession of Providence....
As you know, Roosevelt had three vice-presidents....the second being directly under the sway of Joe Stalin.
Imagine if Wallace had not been replaced by Truman!
Key figures in the FDR administration were revealed to be communists. It seemed in his latter years FDR was under Stalin's sway and that seems to be the way the democrats preferred it but there is no evidence that Wallace was a communist. How would Wallace have treated the Stalin regime any differently than Truman?
1. Henry Wallace, 1940-1944. “America’s main enemy was Churchill and the British Empire.” He insisted that peace would be assured “if the United States guaranteed Stalin control of Eastern Europe.” (Ronad Radosh, “Progressively Worse,” The New Republic, June 12, 2000) When Stalin seized Czechoslovakia, Wallace sided with Stalin. When Stalin blockaded Berlin, Wallace opposed the Berlin Airlift. After visiting a Soviet slave camp, Wallace enthusiastically described it a s a “combination TVA and Hudson Bay Company.” Ibid,
2. In 1948, at the apex of Moscow-directed subversion of US politics, FDR’s VP Henry Wallace, former Sec’y of Agriculture, to form the Communist-dominated and Soviet-backed “Progressive Party.” Of course, Wallace’s “Progressives” allowed not even the most peripheral criticism of Soviet aggression.(John Patrick Diggins, “Good Intentions,” The National Interest, Fall, 2000)
a.The progressives received one million votes. The Communist Party USA did not field a presidential candidate, and instead endorsed Wallace for President. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1948)
3. Wallace met personally with KGB agents. (Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, Haunted Woods, p. 119)
“…several prominent journalists, including H.L. Mencken and Dorothy Thompson, publicly charged that Wallace and the Progressives were under the covert control of Communists. Wallace was endorsed by the Communist Party (USA), and his subsequent refusal to publicly disavow any Communist support cost him the backing of many anti-Communist liberals and socialists…” (
Henry A. Wallace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
4. In his diary, Wallace, whose view of the future of America required Soviet-style Communism, wrote that FDR had assured him that he was a few years ahead of his time, but that his vision for American would “inevitably come.” (John Patrick Diggins, “Good Intentions,” The National Interest, Fall, 2000)
5. “Henry Wallace, vice-president during Roosevelt’s third term in office (1941-1945), said later that if the ailing Roosevelt had died during that period and he had become President, it had been his intention to make Duggan his Secretary of State and White his Secretary of Tresury…The fact that Roosevelt survived into…a fourth term…deprived Soviet intelligence of what would have been its most spectacular success in penetrating a major Western government.”
‘The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archives, the History of the KGB,” by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin.p. 107-108
6. Ted Hall (code name MLAD), who with Klaus Fuchs, were agents of the Soviet union who gave the secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviets when they worked on the Manhattan project at Los Alamos, while working for his PhD at Chicago University, joined the Communist Party, …(intending) to work for the Progressive candidate, the naively pro-Soviet Henry Wallace, in the presidential election.”
Albright and Kunstel, “Bombshell,” pp.176-8
7. He [[Wallace] didnÂ’t actually do anything important as Secretary of Commerce related to the jobÂ’s responsibilities, but he did
clash with Harry Truman over policy toward the Soviet Union, arguing for a softer line. Truman eventually sacked him, at which point he became editor of The New Republic. At the time TNR’s foreign policy involved being too far left rather than too far right, so Wallace denounced the Truman Doctrine and lay the groundwork for his 1948 Presidential Campaign on the Progressive Party ticket. The Wallace agenda was in many ways admirable—he stood foresquare for civil rights, voting rights for African-Americans, and universal health care. The campaign was also shot-through with Communists being controlled by Moscow, and there’s some indication in the Mitrokhin Archive that Wallace himself was considered a KGB asset at the time.
Commerce Cabinet Crisis X: Henry Wallace | ThinkProgress
8. In my opinion, the quicker we share our scientific knowledge the greater will be the chance that we can achieve genuine and durable world cooperation. Such action would be interpreted as a generous gesture on our part and lay the foundation for sound international agreements that would assure the control and development of atomic energy for peaceful use rather than destruction.
Henry Wallace, letter to Harry S. Truman (24th September, 1945).
If Wallace was President, Stalin wouldn't have needed the Rosenbergs.
