On Fri, 5 May 2006 16:15:00 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
writes:
> Colin Brace quoted:
>
> >Harry Truman was no centrist, and neither was he a radical. Still,
> >listening to his ferocious ad-libs back in 1948 (which was,
> >incidentally, not during the Great Depression), his audience could
> >have had few doubts about what the Democratic Party stood for.
>
> The CIA, the Bretton Woods Institutions, NATO, the Red Purge...
Truman could talk like a lefty, when that suited his political interests, but that's not the way that he actually governed.
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