Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Truman, already considerably mollified by phone calls from Kennedy and visits from his envoys, was waiting for Kennedy on the steps of the Truman Library. "Hello, Mr. President," said Kennedy. "How are you?" Beamed the 76-year-old Truman: ''Come on in here, young man. I want to talk to you alone.'' With a hand on Kennedy's elbow, Truman steered him away from Traveling Companions Stuart Symington and Democratic Chairman Henry Jackson for a 30-minute private talk. Obviously enjoying himself, the ex-President then led Kennedy to the library's auditorium, dominated...
After the press conference, Truman took Kennedy on a tour of the library, played him The Blackhawk Waltz on the piano...
Washington Music Critic Paul Hume's ears went red ten years ago when he got some blue language in the mail from the White House: Harry Truman didn't like Hume's musical judgment on Daughter Margaret's singing. That might have taught any other critic that music and politics don't mix. But after all, Washington is a political town. Lately, on his radio program called Guest Conductor, Critic Hume has been airing the favorite melodies of the 1960 candidates. By last week he had all four on record...
Died. Charles Homer Buford, 74, a railroadman for 43 years and president of the Milwaukee Road from 1947 to 1950, who for nine days in 1946 became czar of all 337 U.S. rail carriers on order of President Truman, who attempted to prevent a strike by seizing the lines; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
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