Constellation Similarity Assertions
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
American president Harry S. Truman considered himself a common, forthright man with a superior attention to detail. Born and raised in Missouri, he never attended college, instead working odd jobs before joining his family to run a large farm. He fought in World War I, and made several poor business investments before starting a successful political career, beginning a long affiliation with the corrupt political machine of Boss Tom Pendergrast. He went from local politics to the United States Senate to a compromise candidate for Vice-President to the Presidency after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death in 1945. Truman's presidential legacy is marked by the birth of the atomic age, McCarthyism, the Korean War, and the Cold War.
From the description of Harry S. Truman remarks on General George Marshall, 1964 May 29. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 70247617
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