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...just great," remembers Bob Donovan, who, as a young reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, was with Truman the whole way. "We saw this country like never before; the wheat fields, the mountains and the little towns. Thousands and thousands of people came out and gathered around the train. It was Harry Truman's country and his kind of people. He loved...
...greatest of all the trains ran for Harry Truman in 1948, when he clicked off 31,700 miles and delivered 356 speeches (16 in one day). Truman astonished his own political experts and the world that year by beating Republican Thomas Dewey, who was so confident of victory that he was choosing his Cabinet before any vote was cast...
...those early days, Ford was invited to the White House by the natty, peppery Harry Truman, who wanted $5 million to renovate the crumbling building. Ford got the full treatment, with amateur architect Truman pointing out sagging floors and the lack of closets. Truman got his money. (When Ford became President, he was deeply grateful for Truman's home repair, especially for the famous Truman Balcony on the rear of the White House.) And Truman got more: Ford's support on foreign policy, even when Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur, though Ford still glows a bit when he recalls MacArthur...
...sofa so she could take pictures of them with their famous grandfather. He died of a sudden heart attack five days after he stood on the deck of the battleship Missouri to watch the Japanese surrender. The obituary ran on the front page of the New York Times; President Truman sent condolences...
...Truman dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a crisp dispassion...