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In 1952 President Harry S. Truman was suffering from dismal approval ratings due to an unpopular war, a presidential candidate from his own party distancing himself from Truman, and a media barrage of criticism culminating with being referred to as the worst president since Harding, who’s term during the Great Depression almost certainly did more damage in the 1930′s. History has since remembered Truman as one of the great presidents in history who set the course upon which the Cold War was won four decades later.

To put this in perspective, Richard Nixon’s approval rating in 1974 was actually higher than Truman’s approval rating in 1952 by 2 full percentage points. Were polling available in the 19th century, I’m quite sure that Truman’s approval rating would have been lower than even Abraham Lincoln, who’s unpopularity leading up to and during the Civil War was unprecedented.