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...Francisco 32nd or 33rd...
F.D.R. was President a long time, so long that newspaper editors in general forgot that he was the 32nd President. I took refuge in the thought that TIME [April 23], with all those researchers, would set everyone right. A broken reed! You cannot count either. President Truman is the 32nd person to be President. If one refers to him as the 32nd President, that is half-true. But when he is called the 32nd President of the U.S., you have permitted an error to creep in. Cleveland was both the 22nd and 24th President of the U.S. It is true...
...Thirty-one men have served 32 tenures as President of the U.S. Whether Harry Truman is the 32nd or 33rd President is, in the absence of any final authority, up to Mr. Truman. He has decided that he is the 32nd President of the U.S. The Congressional Directory, Senate Manual, and the numbered nameplates on the Presidential portraits in the White House concur with...
Said Jones: "President Truman could not have made a better appointment." The man who will now have many billions to spend was an artillery captain in the 32nd Division A.E.F. He is an eager reader, religiously reads four books a week. (Standard regimen: two biographies , one book of history, one novel.) Like many another of Harry Truman's Missouri friends, he plays a close game of poker. Unlike others he collects dimes (one of every U.S. issue) and pictures of airplanes (he considers them graceful...
...clasped a Bible between his hands, stood stiffly underneath Seymour Thomas' portrait of Woodrow Wilson. The clock on the mantel stood at 7:08. It took just one minute for the oath to be administered, and Harry Truman, 60, the neat, slim, spectacled man from Missouri, became the 32nd man to be President of the U.S.† The ceremony over, he lifted the Bible to his lips...