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That night, Señior Mike was Harry Truman's guest at a gold-plate state dinner in the White House. He slept there, too. Next morning, the President of the U.S. saw him off on a busy round of sightseeing and wreath-laying. "I think he's having a good time," said Harry Truman. "He's a grand...
...olive wreath to you for the forthright article on the subject of aid, morally and financially, to Greece, the birthplace of democracy [TIME, March...
...both a ruthlessly honest critic and a warmhearted patron. Tennyson, who was a proud man, as well as crotchety and hypochondriacal, readily accepted from FitzGerald unwavering criticism and hundreds of pounds. "This really great man," said FitzGerald, "thinks more about his bowels and nerves than about the Laureate wreath he was born to inherit." He was almost as observing about himself: "I know that I could write volume after volume as well as others of the mob of gentlemen who write with ease; but ... I have not the strong inward call, nor cruel-sweet pangs of parturition, that prove...
...beneath Mexico City's historic Chapultepec Castle. As Harry Truman's black, bulletproof Lincoln stopped in the deep shade, the cadets stood rigidly at attention. The President of the U.S. stepped out, walked to a stone shaft which stood amid the trees. An aide handed him a wreath. He laid it down, stood for a few moments, bowed, walked back to his car. A few cadets wept silently. The presidential procession rolled...
...Celebrated Lincoln's Birthday by standing at rigid attention under a wan February sun while Major General Harry Vaughan laid the presidential wreath at the foot of Daniel Chester French's brooding statue of Lincoln...