A lot of people ride trains just to get somewhere. For the rest of us, the experience is quite different and it affects each of us in different ways. In 1948, Harry Truman won re-election as president in an upset victory over New York governor, Thomas Dewey. Credit is usually given to Truman’s “whistle-stop tour”…
“When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.” Harry Truman, to reporters after the death of Franklin RooseveltApril, 1945 —————————————————————————– “I’m ready.” Sarah Palin, to ABC’s Charles GibsonSeptember, 2008
Harry Truman became the 33rd president of this country in April of 1945 when, as Vice President, he succeeded Franklin Roosevelt, who had collapsed and died at his retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia. Truman finished out FDR’s term, then ran in his own right in 1948.I think historians would agree that a train was a…
He once said, “You get a real feeling of this country and the people in it when you’re on a train.” He was right, too. When you take a long-distance train ride across America, you have time to look and, more importantly, to think about what you see: factories and farms, mountains and plains; scenes…