21 Great Leaders: Learn Their Lessons, Improve Your Influence - Plot & Excerpts
TRUMAN The Buck Stops Here Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. HARRY S. TRUMAN In the early 1990s, when I broadcast my radio show live from a restaurant in Orlando, I had Colonel Paul W. Tibbets Jr. as my guest. During World War II, he flew the mission that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was sobering to hear him describe the fateful mission that ended the war. I asked if he could feel any effects from the bomb as he flew away from Hiroshima. He said that when the bomb exploded, he felt a tingling in the fillings of his teeth. As he banked the B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay, and turned toward home, he looked out the side window and saw the towering mushroom cloud and realized that an entire city had disappeared. Still, he was relieved that the bomb would end the war, and millions of Americans and Japanese would live out their lives instead of dying in an invasion of the Japanese mainland.
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