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When he arrived in Independence, he was met by his brother Vivian and his old crony, U.S. Marshal Fred Canfil (see cut). That night he pointedly stayed away from the Democratic rally in the Memorial Building, instead drove over to Grandview to visit his 93-year-old mother. In his absence Mayor Roger Sermon explained the facts of life to Harry Truman's puzzled fellow citizens. "He'd give his right arm to be here tonight, but there are some things he can't do. He must preserve the dignity of his office...
Picnic & Politics. But no worries showed on Harry Truman's face. When the big plane landed at Grandview the crowd noticed only that the President seemed a little more tired than usual...
...Grandview, Mo. airport to meet him were his mother, who had been in bed with a cold, his brother, Vivian, and his sister, Mary Jane Truman. Visitors were banned. After a night in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, the presidential party drove some 50 miles to 97-year-old William Jewell College at Liberty...
They landed long after the President had hurried off to see his mother at Grandview. It was midnight before they caught up with him. It had been a wearing, tedious, all-but-newsless...
...Martha Ellen Truman, the President's mother, reached 93 in Grandview, Mo., swore that she would reach 100. Son Harry surprised her with a spur-of-the-moment flight from Washington. "I had a notion to do this," he said...