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When Vaughan's turn came, he remembered how he had tried to stop "all this foolishness" of Vice President Truman's playing the piano with Lauren Bacall draped languorously over the top of the instrument at the National Press Club. Of course the picture became famous...
Beth Short, Truman's correspondence secretary, contributed an anecdote about the Truman reputation for salty language, much of which is faithfully reproduced in the new play. She told about the time she was on an elevator with Truman and a bunch of men. He used a swear word. "When we got to the lobby," recalled Mrs. Short, "he saw that I was on the elevator. He came over not only to speak to me but to say, 'I beg your pardon, Beth. I didn't realize you were on the elevator or I never would have said...
...Webb, who was Truman's budget man, recalled how Truman used to jump up and shake his hand every time he entered the Oval Office. Finally Webb said, "Mr. President, you don't need to do this. I've been here before." Truman said, "Oh, no. You don't know how the presidency operates. If I didn't shake hands, somebody would say, 'The President's mad at the budget director...
Germany was in ruins, the only trace of Hitler was an oil spot on the ground outside his Berlin bunker, Japan was desperately seeking escape from impending disaster, and the atomic bomb was being rushed to completion in the U.S. Harry Truman packed tuxedo, top hat and tails, as he wrote his mother back in Independence, Mo., and set off jauntily for Potsdam in July 1945 for a victors' summit with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill...
Churchill appears underbriefed, garrulous, exhausted. One day he offered the Soviets access to the Mediterranean; on another he almost gave away the German fleet (then in British hands). Stalin comes carrying plans for a neo-czarist empire stretching across half of Europe. Dapper Harry Truman arrives with such members of his old Missouri gang as his "personal rascal," General Harry Vaughan...