The resources available at the web these days.. seems like huge archives are put out on youtube in just the last two years. Studying history is more fun and fulfulling than ever – with pics, text, audio and video available right at your fingertips.
Anyways – here’s Harry being inaugurated after winning his first Presidential Election in ’48, after enduring a 22.000 miles criss-cross Whistle-Stop tour around the country (about the circumference of the earth) in the campaign – and beating all conventional wisdom in papers and pollings about the Republican candidate Dewey winning the race by a landslide.
And as the Gop was so sure of winning – they had already passed a $80.000 spending bill for the most lavish inauguration seremony in history, and Truman and the Democrats enjoyed every cent of it.
