Oliver Stone's Untold History [View all]

[avebury]

OK I am late to the game. While cat sitting for a friend (who gets Showtime) I am working my way through Oliver Stone's Untold History. I am currently on Episode 4 on the Cold War. Between Episodes 3 & 4 it seems to me that Truman was in over his head when he became president. Knowing that the US might have put the planet on the road of self destruction it seems like he had no problem with threatening the continue to use the atomic bomb. He strikes be as short sighted and bull headed. The series is making me want to read more about Henry Wallace.

The other thing that makes sense, given the road we have followed is that there were people in the Roosevelt/Truman presidency who thought that the US needed a military that would be kept a permanent war footing. I can't remember the names of who favored it.

I kind of wish I were taking notes so that I could research some of what is in the show.