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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d58e8f3e-b6a5-4a94-8b4c-7cbbc500b40a/3A94A227-700B-43BC-8071-604FE097A4E2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2008/10/10/sarah-palin-john-mccain-george-w-bush--harry-s-truman-historian-robert-dallek-says-no.html" href="http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2008/10/10/sarah-palin-john-mccain-george-w-bush--harry-s-truman-historian-robert-dallek-says-no.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.usnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2008/10/10/sarah-palin-john-mccain-george-w-bush--harry-s-truman-historian-robert-dallek-says-no.html"><P>The rush to embrace Truman tells us more about contemporary politics than about the realities of his career. Unlike Palin, as demonstrated by her interviews, Truman had schooled himself in history and biography. He was the only 20th-century president without a college degree, but he was better educated than most of his predecessors or successors. Moreover, by the time Truman got to the vice presidency in 1944, he was a seasoned politician who had served as the chief judge of Jackson County, which was equivalent to being the mayor of Kansas City, and had served 10 years in the U.S. Senate, where he won prominence as chairman of a subcommittee investigating wartime waste in industrial mobilization. It netted him a <EM>Time </EM>cover<EM> </EM>and accolades as one of the country's most accomplished civilian contributors to victory in World War II.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3A94A227-700B-43BC-8071-604FE097A4E2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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