I called it

Re: Our Century’s Harry Truman, Charles Krauthammer, April 26; The Actions Of Great Leaders, letter to the editor, Nov. 24, 2010.

On Nov. 24, 2010, the National Post had the acumen, sagacity and just plain old good taste to print one of my letters to the editor, wherein I wrote: “It took the great Ronald Reagan to finish what the great Harry Truman began; it will likewise take a future great president (certainly not the present one) to finish what the great G.W. Bush has begun.”

Well, you can imagine my glee when I happened upon Charles Krauthammer’s latest gem this weekend, in which he concluded: “Like Bush, Harry Truman left office widely scorned, largely because of the inconclusive war he left behind. In time, however, Korea came to be seen as but one battle in a much larger Cold War that Truman was instrumental in winning. He established the institutional and policy infrastructure (CIA, NATO, Truman Doctrine, etc.) that made possible ultimate victory almost a half-century later. I suspect history will similarly see Mr. Bush as the man who, by trial and error but also with prescience and principle, established the structures that will take us through another long twilight struggle, and enable us to prevail.”

Either great minds truly do think alike or Mr. Krauthammer’s been reading my mail; either way is OK by me! Joseph P. Curry, Chicago (P.S., the Stanley Cup is ours).