F.U.N Facts About Harry S Truman =P

~ first president to use air travel within the country
~ proposed a 182 cent per hour wage increase to settle the labor dispute between U.S. Steel and the United Steel Workers union

~The middle initial "S" in Truman's name is not an abbreviation and has no significance.His parents could not seem to agree on whether to honor his paternal grandfather Anderson Shippe Truman or his maternal grandfather Solomon Young. The letter S was the result of a compromise, since both names contain the letter

~His vice precidential acceptance speech was less than a minute

~The President's personal office is called the oval office. Any plane he flies on is called Air Force One, and any helicopter is called Marine One.

~read every book in the library of his hometown in Lamar Missouri

~most famous quote " the buck stops here"

~At the age of 92, back in Independence, Truman's mother broke her hip when she tripped in her kitchen and the President flew out to see her. Looking up at him from her bed of pain as he walked into the room she said: "I don't want any smart cracks out of you. I saw your picture in the paper last week putting a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial."









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