Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover: An Unlikely Friendship
In 1945 , as World War II struggled towards its eventual close , a foreboding Oval Office meeting between Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman over Europe ’s fate sparked what became not only an effective professional relationship , but adeeply personal one as well , despite their huge partizan conflict . “ Yours has been a friendly relationship which has reached deeply into my lifetime than you know , ” Hoover once wrote of Truman , a persuasion often reciprocated by the latter president ....