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...Harry Truman...
...Truman lived in Independence from age 6 to 21, the formative years. His circle was made up of well-to-do youngsters, and his intellectual companions in a superb high school were Mark Twain, Dickens, Plutarch, Tennyson and Shakespeare. He studied Chopin, Mendelssohn and Paderewski on the piano. His heroes included Cincinnatus, Scipio and Cyrus II the Great. He never played football, basketball or baseball. You might even say that in his place and time he was elitist...
...Truman Library in Independence noticed a get-right-with-Truman surge about the time of Jerry Ford, who insisted on having his portrait in the Cabinet Room. Jimmy Carter asked for Truman's THE BUCK STOPS HERE sign. The library sent him a facsimile. Ronald Reagan had a paperweight on his desk that said THE BUCKAROO STOPS HERE. Bush had McCullough into the White House for a Truman lecture, set up Harry's portrait in the East Room and happily hovered around...
...forget, Truman was a lousy speller ("Deleware," "occation"). Grab it, Dan. Get right with Truman...
...Presidency: Bush's Truman impersonation needs work...