there was something mighty familiar about the way Harry Truman was acting. Almost every time he got a chance to say a few words in public, he had a mouthful of invective for his opponents and fulsome praise for his Administration.
One day he dropped in at an electric-power consumers' conference in Washington's Willard Hotel and shot a 2,200-volt charge into the private power business. Harry Truman barked that the companies are carrying on a multimillion-dollar propaganda campaign against public power development, and hinted that he might call for an investigation. Said he: "What these private power companies...
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