Michael Madigan <> wrote:
> 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.
I thought that he fell into depression after giving the approval to drop the
bombs, and getting the truth about what really happened to all those people
as we learned what radiation poisoning was all about.
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