TIME's continuing series of special issues on the 100 most influential people of the 20th century will culminate in December, when we will name a single figure as the Person of the Century. To help the magazine's editors make the choice, we are asking a select group of people to tell us whom they would pick. Here are the latest thought-provoking nominations:
HARRY TRUMAN, who had been a little-known and perhaps ill-prepared Vice President, found himself in 1945 facing the most daunting of responsibilities: ending World War II and containing Soviet communism. Truman's foreign-policy leadership gave the U.S. an unprecedented role...
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