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...next morning, ready for the 20-mile drive to Grandview to visit his 92-year-old mother. He found her well, "as fine as she could be." As usual, she gave him a maternal admonition. "Mother just told me to be careful and I'm trying to follow her advice...
Next morning, instead of going to church ("it creates such a disturbance"), he stayed home and read the Sunday papers. Then he drove back to Grandview, and at the little airport said goodbye to his family. Reaching up to kiss him, his mother got in a final word: "You be good, but be game, too." The hometown weekend was over...
...celebrating inside the White House that night, there was no official word of it. The best guess: Harry Truman, Jimmy Byrnes and a few others got together around highballs. But happy Harry Truman had two telephone calls to make: 1) to his 92-year-old mother in Grandview, Mo., to make personal the news she had heard on the radio;* 2) to Eleanor Roosevelt, to say that he wished Franklin Roosevelt could have been in Washington that...
...President went off for a last visit with his 92-year-old mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, at Grandview, Mo., then drove back to Independence. Next morning he was aboard the presidential plane (which he calls "The Sacred Cow"), on his way to Washington and points east...
...House came the President's 92-year-old mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, and his 55-year-old sister, Miss Mary Truman. Harry Truman had sent the big presidential transport plane (which carried Franklin Roosevelt to & from his transatlantic conferences), his naval aide and a Secret Service man to Grandview, near Kansas City, to bring Mrs. Truman to Washington for Mother...