How Truman did it

Fox' Chris Wallace is having a new book: "Countdown 1945" covers the 116 days between Harry S. Truman’s becoming President and the destruction of Hiroshima.

Researching the book, Wallace was stuck by Truman’s “decisionmaking process.” The novice President famously owned all final decisions – a plaque reading the buck stops here really was on his desk – but decided only after soliciting advice widely. The question of whether to deploy the atomic bomb was mulled by a committee that included the president of Harvard, physicists Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Oppenheimer, and other great minds.

“The inclusiveness and the deliberateness of that process does seem to contrast with the way decisions are made these days,” Wallace says, naming no names. “I wasn’t looking to do that. But it became evident as I researched the book.”

https://time.com/5847957/chris-wallace-interview/