369 | Steve Drummond: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win WWII
The Realignment
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Harry Truman: The Vice President
Harry Truman came to the Senate in 1934 and he was widely and derogatorily considered the Senator from Pendergast. He did almost nothing there for six years that anyone noticed in 1941 when he formed this committee, virtually unknown outside of Missouri. And then suddenly because of finding his feet with this investigative committee, three years later, he was Vice President of the United States.
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