Word: muehlebach
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When the Sacred Cow landed at Kansas City he rode off to the Muehlebach Hotel, went to a suite for lunch. One hour and 30 minutes later he got back into a black Lincoln limousine with his physician, strapping Brigadier General Wallace Graham, and drove the 20 slushy miles to Mrs. Truman's neat, cream-colored bungalow...
Reassured, the President drove into Kansas City and spent the night at the Hotel Muehlebach. Next morning he was up at 5:45 for a stroll through the city's dark streets. After breakfast he drove out to Grandview again. At 2 p.m. he took off for Washington. He had another family duty ahead-a party for Daughter Margaret, who will be 23 this week...
...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...
...suite atop Kansas City's Hotel Muehlebach, Harry S. Truman heard the big news. He had spent a middling busy day. In the morning, he and his pleasant-faced wife drove from Kansas City to Independence (pop: 16,066) to vote. Then the Trumans drove to nearby Grandview, shepherded the Senator's 91-year-old mother to the polling booth. In the evening, he gathered with old friends in his hotel suite, joked: "Everybody around here is nervous...
Back in Kansas City, with a war buddy, he opened a haberdashery on Kansas City's Twelfth Street, across from the Muehlebach Hotel. This sole business venture crashed resoundingly, leaving Truman with $15,000 in debts, which he was still paying off 14 years later...