Harry Truman announces his candidacy for president--again.

Weekly Standard ^ | 05/21/2007

[trumandogz]

Here I am!

Trumandogz

[Fiji Hill]

Truman...sent Hiss to jail.

Truman called the Congressional investigation into Hiss "a red herring." It was Nixon who sent Hiss to jail.

[Fiji Hill]

McCarthy never once successfully exposed one single Communist agent.

How about Owen Lattimore, Irving Peress, and Annie Lee Moss?

[trumandogz]

"We could sure use a man like Truman Capote for our times."

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This week Newsweek had a cover story about finding "the new Harry Truman" written by the grandson of one of the men Truman had defeated in 1948 (no, not Dewey or Wallace or Thurmond).

It looked to me like they'd spectacularly and stupidly missed the point.

Bush is like Truman in a lot of ways. He has Truman's strengths and weaknesses.

We don't need another Truman. What we need is a new Eisenhower to clean things up.

In his own day, Truman left the Presidency hated and spurned by the public. People thought he just wasn't up to the job.

Truman has a good reputation now, first because he was on the scene at a pivotal moment in our history, the end of WWII and the beginning of the Cold War, and second because subsequent generations came to see him as more honest and truthful than later Presidents.

Now Truman's stock is due to sink, though there are limits as to how low he can fall.

[trumandogz]

For Truman, FDR was a tough act to follow.

[expat_panama]

It was Nixon who sent Hiss to jail.

Nixon may have tried to take credit for Hiss going to jail, but he was in the legislature.   Results are more important than talk.  No matter what Truman said about Hiss, it was Truman's administration of federal laws (laws not enacted by Nixon) that sent Hiss to jail.  Hiss was an actual KGB agent --according to the KGB.  Please post a link showing direct KGB links to George Marshal, Ike Eisenhower, Owen Lattimore, Irving Peress, and Annie Lee Moss.

[Fiji Hill]

Hiss apparently worked for the Main Intelligence Administration (GRU), which handled military intelligence, rather than the KGB, then known as the People's Committee for Internal Affairs (NKVD). Nonetheless, Truman’s Justice Department had no desire to prosecute him, and it was only after Whittaker Chambers, with the aid of Nixon, exposed Hiss that he was prosecuted for perjury.

I don’t know of anyone who has claimed that the KGB had direct links with George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower—although Bob Dylan referred to Ike as a “Russian spy” in one of his satirical songs. As for the others, this book ought to help you out.

[fhayek]

At least Democrats were still patriots back then...

[xc1427]

Here’s another one: Tom Pendergast.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

Do you know which President Bush reminds me of the most ?

Harry S.