The History of Henry Wallace

The red scare that overtook America in the 1950s was only a sequel to the decades of anti-communism dating back to World War I. FDR did not exactly consider the Reds a part of the New Deal coalition. Like the Japanese who were interned, communists were offered up on the sacrificial altar of imagined American unity in wartime. Here's Harry Truman in a clip we played moments ago, talking about his relationship with Wallace years later.