1945: Year of Decision by Harry S. Truman

Author:Harry S. Truman [Harry S. Truman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography and Memoirs/Presidents and Heads of State
ISBN: 9781612308074
Publisher: New Word City, Inc.
Published: 2014-08-25T16:00:00+00:00

On June 16, I found time to write Mama and Mary another letter.

Dear Mama & Mary: - The deed came day before yesterday and that gives you a rent-free home for the rest of your life anyway - and that goes for you both. So now take good care of yourselves and live as long as you can - ”forever” the Mesopotamian Kings used to say to each other - ”O King, live forever.” But they never did, only in statuary, and vandals usually carried that off to decorate some other building than the king’s tomb or used it for a hitching post.

I am having a strenuous time. Every day I see some notable of some sort, pin medals on heroes and make world-shaking decisions. It seems to agree with me for I’ve gained twelve pounds since last January: I guess it’s because I have nothing to look forward to but retirement. . . .

Had a dozen people over for dinner last evening - just the military aide and his wife and kids and the Naval aide and his wife and Marine sergeant boy - a nice kid by the way - and John Snyder and his wife and lovely daughter. She’s about Margie’s age. Vaughan’s daughter is about sixteen and his boy is ten - 13 at the table.

Three generals came in to see me yesterday, and General Patch gave me Herr Goering’s baton. I always get those dirty Nazis mixed up but it makes no difference. Anyway it’s the fat Marshal’s insignia of office. It is about a foot and a half long, made of ivory inlaid with gold eagles and iron crosses with diamond studded end caps and platinum rings around it for engraving. Must have cost several thousand dollars - maybe forty - to make. Can you imagine a fat pig like that strutting around with a forty thousand dollar bauble - at the poor taxpayer’s expense and making ‘em like it? It goes to a military museum.

Monday I entertain Eisenhower, a real man. Tuesday I go to Olympia, Washington - Saturday a week from today San Francisco, Sunday back here, Monday June 25th appear in the Senate and Wed. 27th Independence, 28th K.C. and home for a few days and July 3rd Governors Conference at Mackinac, Mich., and then get ready to go to Berlin. How would you like to be the President des Etats Unis? It’s a hell of a life.

Love to you both.

Harry

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