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Ep. 55: OG Man

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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Harry Truman's Recognizing Real Limits

He is actually someone who at various points in his career recognized real limits at moments when it wasn't always so easy to do so. He was one of the few federal government high-ranking federal employees who criticized Japanese internment and he did not think laws should be passed outlawing the communist party because he thought that would be problematic. So he he does have some recognition of limits those were often based around okay but if I can just push a little bit and I'm not really pushing back but I want to just complicateYeah, there are American presidents who privately confide to their aides or in letters like Harry Truman John F Kennedy. There's a letter from Truman think back to Bass where he

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