Tell Me A Story.
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Happy Birthday Marilyn Monroe!
(June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)
Marilyn Monroe, motion picture actress, appearing with the USO Camp Show, “Anything Goes,” poses for the shutterbugs after a performance at the 3rd U.S. Infantry Division area., 02/17/1954
Harry & Bess.. (This seems unreal.) Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation’s history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.
The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri . His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.
When he retired from office in 1952 his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an ‘allowance’ and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.
After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.
When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, “You don’t want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn’t belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it’s not for sale.”
Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, “I don’t consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise.”
As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.
Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices. Political offices are now for sale
Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, “My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference!”
I say dig him up and clone him!
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That great piece was Dan Wicklund
I so agree with Dan, we need more Harry Trumans! Our politicians should make Harry as their example. Unfortunately I don’t ever see that happening!
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Thanks for the info. We have found some things but its strange the way the VA proceeds with care. He is only given confirmation of things AFTER reporting symptoms rather than being educated in advance with “well this COULD happen.” I am sure they have a reason for it but its fruatrating!
Escaping with secrets of the German submarines
On May 31, 1918, the German submarine U-90 attacked and sank the USS President Lincoln. U.S. Navy Lieutenant Edouard V.M. Isaacs was captured and taken prisoner. While a prisoner on board the submarine, Isaacs managed to gather information about German submarine movements for the United States. Lt. Isaacs eventually escaped from a prison camp in Germany and brought Germany’s submarine secrets back to the Allies. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism.
The citation that accompanied his award is shown, along with excerpts from his detailed report on his capture, imprisonment and escape.
Grover Cleveland $20 Bill - 1914. Andrew Jackson first appeared on the $20 bill in 1928.
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The Constitutional Convention did not get off to an auspicious start. For the first twelve days, they convened only to adjourn until the following day because not enough states were represented.
But by May 25, 1787, delegations from seven states had arrived in Philadelphia, and the Convention at last had the necessary quorum to conduct business. By the Convention’s close, there would be a total of 55 delegates, but only 30 of them were present on the first day of business.
Those 30 delegates made three fateful decisions on the first day of the Convention. In a move that signaled the importance of the work before them, they first unanimously selected George Washington to preside over the Convention’s proceedings. The delegates’ collective knowledge of the theory and practice of government also led them to appoint a committee to draft standing rules of order for the Convention. Finally, they designated Major William Jackson to be the Convention’s secretary.
Jackson would prove to be rather lax in his recordkeeping duties. Much of what we know about the creation of the Constitution comes from journals kept by other participants, most notably James Madison.
On the first page of Madison’s journal [above] of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention, he recorded the delegates who made up that initial quorum and the states they represented.
Massachusetts: Rufus King
New York: Robert Yates, Alexander Hamilton
New Jersey: David Brearly, William Churchill Houston, William Paterson
Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Thomas Fitzsimons, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris
Delaware: George Read, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom
Virginia: George Washington, Edmund Randolph, John Blair, James Madison, George Mason, George Wythe, James McClurg
North Carolina: Alexander Martin, William Richardson Davie, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson
South Carolina: John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler
Georgia: William Few](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4sja9g4hp1r5j9hco1_250.jpg)
The Constitutional Convention did not get off to an auspicious start. For the first twelve days, they convened only to adjourn until the following day because not enough states were represented.
But by May 25, 1787, delegations from seven states had arrived in Philadelphia, and the Convention at last had the necessary quorum to conduct business. By the Convention’s close, there would be a total of 55 delegates, but only 30 of them were present on the first day of business.
Those 30 delegates made three fateful decisions on the first day of the Convention. In a move that signaled the importance of the work before them, they first unanimously selected George Washington to preside over the Convention’s proceedings. The delegates’ collective knowledge of the theory and practice of government also led them to appoint a committee to draft standing rules of order for the Convention. Finally, they designated Major William Jackson to be the Convention’s secretary.
Jackson would prove to be rather lax in his recordkeeping duties. Much of what we know about the creation of the Constitution comes from journals kept by other participants, most notably James Madison.
On the first page of Madison’s journal [above] of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention, he recorded the delegates who made up that initial quorum and the states they represented.
Massachusetts: Rufus King
New York: Robert Yates, Alexander Hamilton
New Jersey: David Brearly, William Churchill Houston, William Paterson
Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Thomas Fitzsimons, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris
Delaware: George Read, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom
Virginia: George Washington, Edmund Randolph, John Blair, James Madison, George Mason, George Wythe, James McClurg
North Carolina: Alexander Martin, William Richardson Davie, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson
South Carolina: John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler
Georgia: William Few
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President Coolidge: “I Do Not Choose to Run for President”
Though popular, Calvin Coolidge decided not to seek reelection in 1928. On August 2, 1927, Coolidge drove to his office at Rapid City High School in South Dakota and wrote: “I do not choose to run for President in nineteen twenty-eight” on a slip of paper. He then called a press conference and asked his secretary to make several copies of the note to pass around to members of the press, without taking any questions.
When it opened on May 27, 1930, the Chrysler Building (1,046 feet / 319 m) in New York City was the tallest man-made structure in the world, until April 30, 1931, when the Empire State Building opened.
CHRYSLER BUILDING, 05/1973
Chester Higgins, photographer. From the EPA’s DOCUMERICA series.
Draft of letter from Harry S. Truman to Eleanor Roosevelt, 05/17/1948
Truman explains his general low regard for most conscientious objectors in this draft to Eleanor Roosevelt. However he makes special mention of one, more than likely Desmond Doss, featured earlier this week. (Although Doss was an Army medic, not a Navy Corpsman.)
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