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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,568 posts) Mon Dec 26, 2022, 06:06 AM Dec 2022

On this day, December 26, 1972, former President Harry S. Truman died in Independence, Missouri.

Noted a year ago by Sherman A1

Sun Dec 26, 2021: December 26, 1972, former President Harry S. Truman dies in Independence, Missouri.

Then-President Richard Nixon called Truman a man of “forthrightness and integrity” who had a deep respect for the office he held and for the people he served, and who “supported and wisely counseled each of his successors.”

Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, in 1884. The son of a farmer, he could not afford to go to college, so he too worked as a farmer before joining the army in 1916 to fight in World War I. After the war, Truman opened a haberdashery in Kansas City. When that business went bankrupt in 1922, he entered Missouri politics. Truman went on to serve in the U.S. Senate from 1934 until he was chosen as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s vice president in 1945; it was during his Senate terms that he became known for his honesty and integrity.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/truman-dies

Sun Dec 26, 2021: Former President Johnson, greatly upset, after viewing the casket of the late President Truman ...

Former President Johnson, greatly upset, with his family, after viewing the casket of the late President Truman, Independence, Missouri, tomorrow 1972. Lady Bird Johnson once told me that LBJ’s distress contributed to his own death less than four weeks later: #Maple

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