Ryan Holiday
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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So it's weighing those other concerns.
So is it the smartest thing to do?
No, but is it the right thing to do?
Is it what I want to do?
Yes.
So that's why I'm doing it.
Yes.
Well, Truman is a character in the book for precisely this reason.
He's in some ways one of the most ethical and least corrupt of the American presidents, one of the most thoughtful, in some ways one of the most progressive.
He desegregates the armed forces.
He challenges the Southern Democrats in his own party as he begins to tackle race.
And, you know, one of the only presidents not to make himself very rich while holding the office.
In fact, the reason there is a presidential commission is that Harry Truman was so principled out of office and refused to cash in on having been the president that they thought he might end up bankrupt.
And so Congress allocated a pension for him.
On the other hand, as president, he had to make a lot of difficult decisions.
That's what being the president is.
And the decision to drop the atomic bomb is one of the obviously most morally consequential choices of the 20th century.
One of the flaws for Truman is that I don't think he ever really thought of not doing it.
It was a project he inherited from
His predecessor, the military, was united in its recommendations that they drop it.
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