369 | Steve Drummond: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win WWII

12/05/2023 44 min Episodio 394
369 | Steve Drummond: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win WWII

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Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiSteve Drummond, NPR journalist and author of The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two, joins The Realignment as part of the show's expanded history coverage. Steve and Marshall discuss how the Truman committee uprooted corruption while promoting readiness and efficacy, why previous wartime committee efforts during the Civil War and WWI failed, the role of Congress in foreign policy and national security, and then how Senator Truman's leadership model can inform today's oversight efforts.

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