Word: reelfoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal announcement, released at the White House, showed considerably more awareness of what the bomb meant to humanity, in good and evil. But a few weeks later he was again treating it with an oddly offhand air. He chose a fishing lodge at Tennessee's Reelfoot Lake, an informal "bull session" with newsmen against a background of bourbon and poker, to announce that the U.S. intended to keep the secret of the bomb to itself...
After five days away, Harry Truman had returned to Washington refreshed and fit, and more than ever in a hurry to get things done. While others fished at Reelfoot Lake, Tenn., he had two days of walking, loafing, taking a not-very-frequent drink, playing poker and sleeping late (until 8 o'clock one morning). He had his picture taken while giving a playful spank to moppet Mike Moffet. Back at his desk he swiftly cleaned up the accumulation of routine. One of his first decisions: to try to add Nashville, Tenn., and its James K. Polk sesquicentennial celebration...
Next day he was off to Reelfoot Lake, across the Mississippi in Tennessee, for bass and crappies fishing. There he told the world again that the U.S. does not intend to give away the "know-how" of the atomic bomb. Then he had a dam to dedicate at Gilbertsville, Ky., before he got back to the White House...
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