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Clark Clifford, an adviser to several Presidents, remembers that "on Truman's desk was the famous sign 'The Buck Stops Here,' and there was another sign quoting Mark Twain: 'Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.' That is what Mr. Truman did." Clifford can still hear the ring of Truman's voice in 1948 when his Gallup was at 36%, and he was told he faced certain political defeat unless he changed his stance on civil rights to woo the South. "I am not going to change one single...
...Well to get off this passing the buck business...
Like his songs, a Haggard concert is simple and direct. No fancy cowboy suits, rhinestone decorations or hand-tooled boots for him. He may introduce his wife Bonnie Owens, a well-known singer who divorced Country Star Buck Owens twelve years before she married Haggard in 1965. Or he will tease his fans by saying "Merle Haggard isn't here tonight. I'm filling in for him. Those of you who aren't country music fans, you're in the wrong damn place...
...buck up Sparling, and the cause of the G.O.P., the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee gave $35,000 to the fight. The Michigan G.O.P., as State Chairman William McLaughlin later lamented, "put every penny we had into this race." Percy paid a visit to help out. But there were early intimations of disaster. Volunteer workers were hard to come by. Vice President Gerald Ford, whose home district lies some 100 miles southwest, could not assist, it was said, because of "scheduling problems." Most disconcerting of all, a local Republican chairman took off on the eve of the election for a month...
...arms and singing one of the most famous commercials-the one that accompanied Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy: "Won't you buy Wheaties, the best breakfast food in the land! Won't you try Wheaties ..." The melody lingers on, but Jack-and Little Orphan Annie and Buck Rogers-are only memories. Recordings of their series have disappeared and, radio fans fear, are probably lost forever...