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...Harry Truman called his Cabinet and staff together last week in Washington. Margaret stuck her head in too. There was some thunder, a great many jokes, roars of laughter and peppery irreverences about people and politics...
...Whitmore, the actor who plays the part in Give 'em Hell Harry! at Ford's Theater. The National Press Club had him come for a lunch, and just to make it seem like old times they invited a lot of men and women who had worked with Truman...
Whitmore claimed he knew less about Truman than anyone there, that he got the part in the play because of "bone structure." But in that confession there was a bit of Harry. "I have no story about Mr. Truman," said the actor. "I never met him. I voted for someone else...
...most eloquent moment in his Truman portrayal, said Whitmore, is the little bit where the President writes a letter to his daughter, then takes a 3? stamp out of his wallet and puts it on the envelope. "Very often the audience applauds," said Whitmore. "When you think about that, and I have, we have a hunger and thirst for simplicity and for people of integrity...
Clark Clifford, the White House counsel in Truman's time, told a story of how the President dragged General Harry H. Vaughan, the controversial military aide who hated the water and boats, along on a fishing trip. When Truman caught a fish called a Schoolmaster, he showed it with pride to Vaughan. "Look, Harry," said Truman, "I caught a Schoolmaster." Vaughan, slumped miserably on the deck, said, "I don't give a damn if you caught a superintendent of education...