"When people create delays for profit, when they sell poor products for defense use, when they cheat on price and quality, they aren't any different from a draft dodger and the public at large feels just the same way about it." - Senator Harry S. Truman, March 31, 1941 ~~~ As American war industry roared to life in 1941, Senator Harry S. Truman began receiving letters from concerned constituents. Money was being wasted. Badly. And all over the place. Truman jumped in his car and travelled t...

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33.A) The Truman Committee: An interview with Steve Drummond

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31.) Herbert Hoover 1929-1933

31.A.) The political evolution of Herbert Hoover, an interview with Thomas Schwartz

31.B) Herbert Hoover, the first businessman president, an interview with David Hamilton

31.C) Herbert Hoover & the origins of The Great Depression, an interview with Robert McElvaine

32.) Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945

32.A.) FDR and the New Deal, an interview with Eric Rauchway

32.B.) FDR's death & the history of presidential mourning, an interview with Lindsay Chervinsky & Matthew Costello

32.C.) FDR, Traitor to his Class, an interview with H.W. Brands

32.D.) FDR's mastery of radio, the press, and persuasion, an interview with Harold Holzer

32.E.) FDR's policy of Japanese internment, an interview with Paul Sparrow

32.F.) FDR & American Grand Strategy, an interview with Elizabeth Borgwardt and Christopher Nichols

32.G.) Eleanor Roosevelt, an interview with David Michaelis

Bonus! The Rough Rider and the Professor, an interview with Laurence Jurdem

33.) Harry S Truman 1945-1953

33.A) The Truman Committee: An interview with Steve Drummond

33.B) Truman and the Bomb, an interview with D.M. Giangreco

33.C) Truman and the Pendergast Machine, an interview with Jon Taylor

33.D) The blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the awakening of Harry S. Truman, an interview with Judge Richard Gergel

34.) Dwight Eisenhower 1953-1961

34.A) Ike v McCarthyism, an interview with Larry Tye

34.B) Ike & the Suez Crisis, an interview with Jim Newton

34.C) Isolationism v internationalism, Ike & the election of 1952, an interview with Chris Nichols

34.C) Ike, the Last General, an interview with Bryan Gibby

35.) John F. Kennedy 1961-1963

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35.A) The Assassination of JFK, an interview with Stephen Fagin

35.B) Joe Kennedy Sr., The Patriarch, an interview with David Nasaw

35.C) JFK & The Press, an interview with Harold Holzer

36.) Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963-1969

36.A) LBJ & Vietnam, an interview with Mark Lawrence

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