FYI: Expectations were not high for Harry Truman when he became president in 1945.
Truman was a failed retailer, a failed farmer, a failed zinc miner, a failed oil driller, a senator held on a leash by local Missouri bosses, a vice president who never asked for the job and whom Franklin Roosevelt had met just once before accepting him on the ticket as other candidates fought in the Democratic party. A former manager said he had “very little ability and will never amount to much.” His mother in law used the same phrase.
Biographer David McCullough writes about the day FDR died and Harry Truman became President:
Regards,
Ted
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