mr. pendergas play? > mr. pendergas, fascinating figure. a fun person to write about because he was this larger than life man. he had a bull frog head and bull frog eyes. extraordinarily powerful man. he was the last of the big city bosses. and he essentially picked this random -- seeming little random gentleman named truman with no political experience. up and gave him a political career. and the thing about it is, essentially you have to imagine harry truman at 38 years old. had been a partner in a haberdashery in 1922. and mr. pendergas found this boy who was friends with his knew few. he creates a career for him. mr. pendergas was involved in all sorts of illegalities. and true man had lived there so long. he was an honest man. people knew truman's father. this was an honest family. truman was thrust into these offices. you know, how rigged were these early elections? we really don't know. know a lot of people worked pendergas were con convict of fraud. he helped harry win the election. i think it was 1984. so harry goes to washington,

mr. pendergas play? a.j.: mr. pendergas, fascinating figure. a fun person to write about because he was this larger than life man. he had a bull frog head and bull frog eyes. extraordinarily powerful man. he was the last of the big city bosses. and he essentially picked this random -- seeming little random gentleman named truman with no political experience. up and gave him a political career. and the thing about it is, essentially you have to imagine harry truman at 38 years old. he had been a partner in a haberdashery in 1922. and mr. pendergas found this boy who was friends with his knew -- nephew. mr. pendergas was involved in all sorts of illegalities. and truman was an honest man. this was an honest family. truman was thrust into these offices. how rigged were these early elections? we really don't know. we know a lot of people worked pendergas were con convict of fraud. he helped harry win the election. i think it was 1984. -- he 1934. has a pretty bad reputation because of mr. penergas. when harry goes up for re-election. he was in leav