Word: meenehan
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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Before going to Key West, Harry Truman had taken time off to dedicate a new children's wing of the Georgetown University Hospital. There he dropped in on three-year-old Sharon Meenehan, the victim of an automobile accident. Sharon, who had both legs in casts held straight up by overhead pulleys, was disappointed. She thought her mother had told her that "a present" was coming, not a "President." Next day, Harry Truman sent her a Mother Goose book. He wrote on the flyleaf: "Here's the present you thought you were getting. Get well in a hurry...
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