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| | Commentary Magazine - Harry Truman, by Margaret Truman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | ...Truman's very ordinariness, his lack of side, his unabashed wearing, even when he was President of the United States, of the crazy shirts of the archetypical American tourist, his preference for such MiddleAmerican indulgences as hoisting a few with friends or drawing to an inside straight, established his reputation as a colorful "character... |
 | | ...Margaret Truman's memoir of her father is naturally a bit slanted: an only child, she was so overwhelmed by the concentration of parental love as to be blind to even such minor faults as her father, a candid man, cheerfully acknowledged... |
 | | ...Truman himself, though he fiercely defended his daughter's musical talents, was diffident about his own: "I quit taking piano lessons at the age of fourteen," he told Edward R. Murrow, "because I thought it was sissy... |
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