Watched a documentary about Harry Truman.

It says he is an accident of democracy, maybe.

It says he spent last years of his life, searching for excused to defend his decision of dropping atomic bomb on Japan. It is rather sad, I think, because he probably know it wasn't right to drop the bomb on civilians, otherwise why did he give military to decide when and where to use the bomb at the beginning? (so called auto pilot in the film), and his decision is just "it's ok to use the bomb". Maybe he was trying to escape the responsibility, even though he knew he couldn't. Sad.

What touched me most is his relationship with his wife Beth, or rather the letters between them. Letter after letter, he repeated how he appreciated Beth's letter, how her letter made his day. It's nothing, or even laughable before they were married, everyone can write such letters, escpecially that kind of clumsy letter from a nerd. You can call that young love (even Truman wasn't exactly young at that time). But when he was over fifty at Washington as a senator, that plain language sounds like poem