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...Clark Clifford is paying back a little bit of what he and the nation owe Harry Truman. From Harvard to St. Louis, Clifford is lecturing almost daily about Truman and his times. Tuesday is Truman's 100th birthday, and the celebrations climax with a town party in Independence, Mo., a joint session of Congress, a luncheon with Ronald Reagan as host, and a huge reception in Washing ton for the dwindling band of men and women who were with Truman and for the growing army of those who wish they had been...
There are people today who express wonder that figures like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams wrote a good number of personal letters every day (and made copies too) and still found time to run the country. Or even that Harry Truman regularly wrote to his wife. There are people today who receive a wedding invitation and answer with a telephone call, or forget to answer at all. There are people today who are psychologically unable to write a letter to anybody on any subject. Meanwhile, the postal system has silted up with all the debris of computerized commerce: catalogues from...
...event opened with the first public screening of "Truman: a Self Portrait," a collection of still photographs and film clips tracing Truman's childhood and political career, produced by the Smithsonian Institution for the centennial retrospective...
Yesterday afternoon, Clifford conducted a seminar on Truman's leadership qualities for Kennedy School students...
...goal of the Forum discussion was simply "to elicit Harry Truman," William Trucheart. Director of the IOP Forum, said yesterday, added. "He is someone who is not familiar to people of college age, but is a man who is very much worth remembering...