Twenty years later, as the nation's 33rd president, Truman opted again for what he described as the lesser of evils when he ordered two atomic bombs dropped on Japan. Truman later said:
''It occurred to me that a quarter of a million of the flower of our young manhood were worth a couple of Japanese cities, and I still think they were and are.''
They clearly believed he was to blame for the Depression, and they despised him for bringing them so much misery and suffering. They held him responsible and despised him.
