> I don't think that's my take. Sorry, my bad. I'm honestly not sure to what extent Truman was his own man, politically speaking. He was the "senator from Pen

> I don't think that's my take. Sorry, my bad. I'm honestly not sure to what extent Truman was his own man, politically speaking. He was the "senator from Pendagrast" and then some bigwigs in Dem party who hated the idea of Wallace as President pushed him for VP in 1944. So when he writes "when I conceived of CIA" I'm not picturing Harry Truman deep in thought, rather sitting on his designated chair and being schooled by someone from Yale or thereabouts. He's the lesser Wilson, as a type, in my book. There is no question that power elites in this country clashed after WWII regarding how to operate. But I simply can't see Harry S. Truman in that company. So another possibility is he was being naive even when he wrote that?