the project forced a hard lesson on him. In politics, issues do not always pit right against wrong. Sometimes a politician is forced to choose the lesser of two evils. Truman discovered that one of the two judges working under him was collecting kickback money in the road-building program. He was forced to look the other way in order to prevent more injurious crimes from occurring and to keep on the good side of Boss Pendergast, who had given him his career.
