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To: SuperLuminal
I wasn't around at the time but I don't think anybody seriously thought that dropping the bomb would hurt Truman at the polls.

Even the pro-Soviet Progressives didn't use Hiroshima and Nagasaki to attack Truman.

Truman's problem was more the economy and some scandals. Also he was seen as a petty little man after the larger than life Roosevelt.

10 posted on 10/18/2016 3:00:41 PM PDT by x
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To: Does so

After Pearl Harbor, there was only one vote in Congress against declaring war.


11 posted on 10/18/2016 3:11:07 PM PDT by Does so (Vote for Hillary...Stay Home...==8-O)
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