![]() ![]() But yes, there were the landing boats that famously took the men ashore at D-Day and on islands in the Pacific. INSKEEP: In addition to saving money, did this save lives?ĭRUMMOND: Impossible to count that number, I say in the book. So the very first report was very critical, made headlines around the country. That was the way war was being fought, and the Army was, you know, way outdated. There were no facilities for mechanized war, which - that was the deal. ![]() He criticized the Army for building camps, what he said, along civil war lines. They found that after World War I, when the government had done this once, nobody could find the plans for building Army camps. With the Army camps - their very first report, they found $100 million being wasted on Army camps. But there was a lot of money being spent, a lot of it being wasted. Many of them would go on to, you know, be the story that we know. ready for war, there were contracts being let overnight, over the phone, handshake deals. And nevertheless, Truman took that little bitty window and drove a truck through it.ĭRUMMOND: So not surprisingly, in this incredible race to get the U.S. It was a bit of a steam valve to say, hey, it looks like we're keeping an eye on things. They gave him a teeny, tiny appropriation. However, it soon became clear that if a Democrat didn't do this, there were plenty of Republicans itching to launch their own investigations. There was very fierce opposition in the Senate among Truman's Senate leaders. ![]() STEVE DRUMMOND, BYLINE: Franklin Roosevelt was not crazy about this idea of a junior unknown senator poking his business into the administration's handling of the defense buildup at the time. Drummond writes of Truman's work in a new book called "The Watchdog." But how did Truman ever rise to that position in the first place? Our colleague Steve Drummond investigated that story by researching an earlier part of Truman's political career. In many ways, Truman presided over the creation of the world order we live in now. ally, and while there stops at Hiroshima, which on Truman's orders was destroyed. INSKEEP: President Biden expects to witness some of Truman's legacy next week when he visits Japan, which is now a U.S. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. Truman oversaw the allied victory in Europe and also ordered the use of a new kind of weapon against Japan. Truman of Missouri assumed office when Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945. We have a little-known chapter in the life of a well-known president. ![]()
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