Serving under the iron rule of the corrupt political boss Tom Pendergast, Brother Harry S. Truman was once described as "The only honest man in Jackson County Missouri government." Still, Pendergast befriended Truman and it was only through his blessing that Truman became a US senator. Truman had just become Vice President when Pendergast died January 26, 1945. Without exception, Truman's advisers told him it would be political suicide to attend Pendergast's funeral. Truman, always his own man, ignored them all and went to the service saying, "I never forget a friend."
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