Harry Truman, son of farmers who became senator from Missouri, was chosen by the Democratic Party to become in 1944 the vice-president of Franklin Roosevelt.
Upon his death on April 12, 1945, he unexpectedly became the 33rd President of the United States.
A little-known man of the apparatus, removed from strategic questions, he led America to victory over Germany.
He thus laid the foundations for world order and post-war growth, while at the same time developing the strategy which led to the internal disintegration of Sovietism in 1989. The unlikely president proved himself to be a statesman up to the task. of a key moment in the history of the 20th century.
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Joe Biden's fate is not without certain similarities to that of Truman.
By its trajectory, first of all, pillar of the Democratic Party in the Senate for half a century, vice-president remained in the shadow of Barack Obama and despised by Hillary Clinton.
By the challenges that come before him, then, and which have no precedent
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