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The committee reportedly saved as much as $15 billion (equivalent to $230 billion in 2021),[102][103][104][105] and its activities put Truman on the cover of Time magazine.[106] According to the Senate's historical minutes, in leading the committee, "Truman erased his earlier public image as an errand-runner for Kansas City politicos", and "no senator ever gained greater political benefits from chairing a special investigating committee than did Missouri's Harry S. Truman."[107]

Vice presidency (1945)
See also: 1944 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection
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Roosevelt's advisors knew that Roosevelt might not live out a fourth term and that his vice president would very likely become the next president. Henry Wallace had served as Roosevelt's vice president for four years and was popular on the left, but he was viewed as too far to the left and too friendly to labor for some of Roosevelt's advisers. 