Missouri Mule

On February 3, 1940, Harry S Truman, a freshman Senator from Missouri, held a press conference to announce that he would run for reelection. Truman also said in that same press conference that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt should not run for a third term as president because, in Trumans words, There is no indispensable man in a democracy. Roosevelt ignored Trumans admonition, secured the Dem...