Word: kohen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price was something Harry Truman and Charles Kohen kept to themselves...
...Kohen showed him to an upstairs stockroom filled with paintings, told him to take his pick. "You've got too damn many pictures here," said the President ruefully as he started looking them over...
...that quickly caught his eye was a Dutch tavern scene showing men shooting dice. The President pulled up a chair to study the painting, and remarked that it would be a fine gift for soandso. (Afterward, Kohen loyally insisted that he could not remember the name the President used...
Then, one of the Secret Service men showed the. President a picture of a bare-shouldered girl. Dealer Kohen broke in to say that he considered it a bit questionable in taste; as a matter of fact he had tucked it out of sight just in case Bess Truman might be in the shopping party. The President appreciated that. "I think more of you now than I ever did," he grinned, and moved on after one look...
...that, Mr. President," said Kohen, "because I don't know the name myself." Harry Truman guessed that after all it really didn't matter. He told a Secret Service man to carry it down to the car; it was just the right size...