On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Jim Farmelant wrote:
> Was Harry Truman all that charismatic?
Truman would never have been nominated if he hadn't been the sitting president due to FDR's death. In fact in 1952 he couldn't get nominated even though he *was* the sitting president. He was that unpopular.
But he was greatly charismatic, both on the 1948 campaign trail and in the famous Truman committee hearings that originally catapaulted him to prominence. Even his worst enemies conceded that he'd run an incredible campaign -- arguably the best ever run.
Michael