Trump’s War Inspires the Return of an Old Scourge: War Profiteers

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Harry Truman was certainly not FDR’s preference as his running mate at the Democratic Party’s 1944 convention. An obscure second-term Senator from Missouri, Truman was the pick of the cabal of conservative and racist Democrats who orchestrated the nomination of the country’s most popular president’s new running mate for what would be his fourth term in the White House. They chose Truman because they and the corporate leaders behind them desperately wanted to prevent...