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Tom Pendergast personally chose Harry Truman to run for the United State Senate in 1934. But by 1940, when Truman was seeking re-election, Pendergast was in prison and Harry Truman’s political future hung in the balance, as his two democratic primary opponents roundly decried Truman’s association with the corrupt political machine.
Tom & Harry: The Boss and the President, the definitive telling of the Pendergast Machine and Harry Truman’s participation in it, is chock-full of interesting film clips and photographs from the 19th century up to the 1940s. At its release, the film premiered at four theaters simultaneously in Kansas City.
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