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Truman Committee became the model for scrutinizing giant public expenditures

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How the Truman Committee helped win World War II and paved the way for a presidency

Harry Truman was a nationally little-known junior senator from Missouri before elevating his profile as the architect of the Truman Committee. A new book from NPR's Steve Drummond looks at how the ...
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What Sen. Harry Truman could teach today’s Capitol Hill Republicans

In early 1941, as America launched a massive military buildup in preparation for World War II, a backbench Missouri senator named Harry Truman became shocked by the corporate profiteering in the ...
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Truman Committee became the model for scrutinizing giant public expenditures

We have a little-known chapter in the life of a well-known president. Harry S. Truman of Missouri assumed office when Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945. That was near the end of World War II. Truman ...