Truman, of course, became his Vice President.
Truman was chosen over prior VP Henry Wallace as Democratic insiders were concerned about Wallace's far left leanings. People have wondered about how far Wallace went in that direction, but The New Republic, which ironically was featured here just yesterday, and for which Wallace was an editor after he was no longer VP, actually stated that he was a Communist in its 75th anniversary issue. He was certainly very far left.
He was also an expert on chickens.
Truman had been a small businessman before entering politics and was the last U.S. President to lack a college degree.
Roosevelt in many ways created much of the modern state which the current Republican Party, once again flirting with isolationism, threatens to tear down under Donald Trump, something that got started with Ronald Reagan.
US fighters strafed a Red Army column near Niš, mistaking it for a German column. Soviet aircraft responded. There were losses on both sides, but what exactly occured is confusing as it remains classified.
The US took Bloody Ridge on Leyte.
The USS Albacore struck a mine off of Hokkaido and was sunk.
SOE operative Hannah Szenes, age 23, was executed in Hungary, which was controlled by Hungarian fascists at the time.
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