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第2课导读 《自然英语》视频请到共享下载 英文字幕Lesson 2 Obama’s America----The price of the freedom （2） Harry Truman，One of the most-quoted least appreciated presidents，And right now, Obama could use more than a nod in Truman’s direction. Like Truman, Obama finds himself in the midst of a crisis he can not duck. Like Truman, he’s put his presidency on the line for a costly war. Independence Missouri, It does not get any more heartland than this. Truman’s home town, something of the frontier spirit of this town rubbed off on its most famous son. To his many distracters, Harry Truman looked and sounded like a hick. But beneath the farm boy haircut and corn belt grin was a serious tough minded thinker. Harry Truman’s obsession was history. He searched it for answers to that most difficult question, what price should America pay to defend its freedom? In 1917, the UNITED STATES went to war to keep democracy safe, as the recruiting posters said. Truman answered the call. The young captain saw the worst the war could do. So you’d think, when he came home, Truman would join those many Americans who wanted no part of the hellish mess that was EUROPE. Not a bit of it. Elected judge, then senator, he was one of the most vocal critics of isolationism. When the survival of democracy was at stake again, Truman did everything he could to help America win the war against fascism. In 1944, the Missouri farm boy became vice president, but nothing could have prepared him for what happened next. When he heard that his chief was dead, his simple humanity expressed itself in these words to Mrs Roosevelt，what can I do to help? In April 1945, with the war nearly over, President Franklin Roosevelt died of a massive stroke. Truman needed his history now. The fate of the world was in his hands. Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now, he said to reporters. I do not know whether you fellas ever had a load of hay fall on you, but I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets h