TRUMAN WENT LOWER President Bush's 29% approval rating leaves him still more popular than Harry Truman at the low point of his presidency. Truman's rating dipped to 22%.
History regards Truman better than Americans did in 1952, says Alonzo Hamby, Ohio University history professor and Truman biographer. Truman's prosecution of the Korean War was unpopular at home. The conflict, which ended in 1953 and cost 36,000 American lives, is looked on more favorably today by historians for helping to establish a stable democratic South Korea, Hamby said. Among Truman's controversies, he fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur, whom many considered a hero. Suspicions of communist infiltration of the U.S. government led Truman to initiate loyalty reviews that led to hundreds of dismissals. He seized the steel industry in 1952 to prevent a strike. And scores of officials resigned in a bribery scandal at the IRS. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-07-09-bush-poll_N.htm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
