Go to Where the Buck Stops
Sparxafire! Apparently, President Franklin Roosevelt was the first president to propose to leave behind his presidential legacy in the form of a library/museum. Thus, we only have 12 presidential libes so far, and the Greater Kansas City, Mo. area is proud of its Harry S. Truman Library, located in Independence, Mo.
Since hosting a presidential library is one of the things that makes Kansas City rare, let me invite you explore the Truman Library.
Truman was a cool president, scrappy little guy, plain spoken, no nonsense and a snappy dresser. On the one hand, sheepishly abused by his wife, here’s the guy who decided to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima, thus ending WW II in the Pacific. Woo.
A totally dark horse candidate for vice president, Roosevelt only chose him kinda because the Southern states grudgingly approved of a Missourian, and his Senate committee on war spending had saved the country billions of dollars.
Snappy dresser rises to the challenge! Actually, Truman did more than just drop that bomb. He integrated the military, which was just about as controversial as you could imagine it would be in the late 1940s.
He has many characteristics of people who live in and around Kansas City… He did not have a political mind. He was neck deep in politics, mind you, and he could cope on the fly, but he did not have that dark strategy streak that manipulates and zigs and zags to get to Point B. He just blurted out, “Point B.” That’s true of our area… what political maneuvering that does attempt go on here is clumsy and unskilled. Nothing slick about Harry Truman, nothing slick about Kansas City.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
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