The Dem’s will use it any way. He really was not that much of a President and his reputation is exaggerated. He came up in a very corrupt political machine. he tried to keep war restrictions. His administration was loaded with flunky's. He could not end Korea like Eisenhower did. Outside of the GI bill there was really no accomplishment in legislation. He could not maintain the dignity of the office and a lot of other things. He is very overrated. The only reason he is rated so high is because the Dem's write the books and teach the classes.
I think Truman would be ashamed of the Dems today. I'm sure his administration was plagued by the evils of the day (cronyism, liberal echo-chamber, bloated bureaucracy, et al). He withdrew troops from Korea in 1949 which was disastrous. But he did have the guts to drop two atomic bombs on Japan and (re)enter Korea in 1950 to fight communism, a move that stunned the Soviet Union. He loved the United States, unlike many of the Dems politicians today.
I never understood how Greenspan had so much cache, he seemed like a political hack to me, especially after I read about his letter defending Lincoln Savings and Loan's solidity in the 1980s, shortly before it failed. To me, he was a Paul Volcker wanna-be.
For Greenspan to say the war was for oil is meaningless. It's like saying the Civil War was about cotton.