On March 8, 1943, Truman appeared on the cover of Time. The committee, according to the story, “had served as watchdog, conscience and spark plug to the economic war-behind-the-lines.” It was “one of the most useful Government agencies of World War II.” Truman himself was the “Billion Dollar Watchdog,” and it was all kind of bizarre, Time stated, because Truman’s seat in the Senate was itself the result of strange circumstances, involving a patron now at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.
