While shopping at the local supermarket, I saw a Newsweek on the checkout stand, and on the cover there's a photograph of Harry S Truman, with a few of the 2008 presidential contenders on the top page, asking, and this may not be an exact quote, "Is there a Harry Truman among this bunch?"
Well, there could be. Or the could be one in office right now. As the Korean War dragged on at the end of his presidency, Truman suffered from very low presidential approval poll numbers, numbers I believe only Richard Nixon exceeded.
A half-century later, Truman is celebrated as a successful president, if not a great one, then a near-great.
In the White House now lives a man who refuses to abandon an unpopular war.
Maybe we have a Truman already there.
Meanwhile, the approval level for Congress is also quite low.
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