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Were told to stop and they did. Stan got me most of the way there on there was no decision. You can still at a certain level, truman as a president knew he bore ultimate responsibility. A decision not to intervene is, in a sense, a decision. When you put it in the context of truman takes over, as we know now with no preparation for that role or briefing. He announces he wants to execute the legacy of franklin roosevelt. If you do to these moments that hes in these early weeks, hes not the later, a man very much alone, finding his way. These very moving scenes you read about, he goes home with these great reading lists trying to figure out what was the legacy, what did the president really want to do. Hes searching ernlestly to find it. One of the areas he deals with, atomic policy, has been emphasized, he had enormous confidence in marshall, knew this was a policy roosevelt endorsed. Compared to other things he was facing, this seemed like a simple matter. This was the president s poli ....