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This outline of the facts of his mother's life was penned by President Truman ten weeks ago. Afraid then that she was dying, he was speeding to Grandview on the presidential plane. There was more to remember...
...yellow clapboard house in Grandview, "Momma" Truman kept to the small, daily rituals of a lifetime. Whenever Harry could, he stopped by. Always, when she bade him goodbye, she said: "Now, Harry, you behave yourself." He always answered: "You raised me right. You know I'll always behave." He liked to say about her: "They don't make them like her any more...
Hardy Martha Truman had rallied briefly when her son first arrived, again when Mary Margaret canceled her Pittsburgh concert to fly to Grandview, Mo. Mrs. Truman had pork chops for lunch one day, fried chicken for dinner the next, wheat cakes and syrup for breakfast. With all her determined firmness, she announced: "I'm going to get better tomorrow...
...strain was beginning to tell on the President. Each morning he drove the 17 miles to Grandview from his suite in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, spent the day working on urgent letters and messages to the Capitol. Whenever his mother woke, he joined the rest of the family at her bedside. In the evening he returned to Kansas City to work again until bedtime...
This week, as Mrs. Truman wavered fretfully between rally and relapse, the President decided to stay on in Grandview indefinitely. To an expression of sympathy, he replied: "She's sat up with me many times when I needed her, and I want to reciprocate when she needs me. Whenever she wakes up, she wants to talk to me. I want to be there...