Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President to enter office with no college degree. He had a sign over the oval office that read "The Buck Stops Here" He also pulled off one of the biggest political upsets of all time. How? He outworked his competition Truman launched a "whistle stop" tour by train. He traveled over 21,000 miles across the country, giving more than 350 passionate, unscripted speeches from the back platform of the train In an age before AI and Google, his team scoured local news for top issues before every stop, and Truman then included local issues into customized speeches he never gave twice. His rival, Thomas Dewey, on the other hand, ran a safe and slow paced campaign, embracing the polls and speaking as if he had already won. The odds were so heavily stacked against Truman, the newspapers printed the headline of his loss before it happened Minting one of the greatest political upsets in U.S. History