A year had passed since Harry Truman picked up the burden that he had dreaded would fall on him. He had known that whatever he did as President would inevitably be judged by what the people believed his predecessor might have done. This week heavily burdened Harry Truman realized full well that among his towering problems of leading the U.S. people was the still towering shadow of Franklin Roosevelt.
In his first few months in the White House Harry Truman had enjoyed a personal popularityit was almost indistinguishable from sympathythat few Presidents had ever achieved. At one time this popular...
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