![]() ![]() Now at 60, he was President of the United States No one in Washington had ever even heard of Harry Truman before he was 50. NARRATOR He was only a high school graduate, a farmer until he was 33, a haberdasher gone bankrupt at 38. Roosevelt replied, "For you are the one in trouble now." "Is there anything we can do for you," Mrs. "Is there anything I can do for you," Truman asked. Truman entered the first lady's second floor study.Įleanor Roosevelt put her arm around his shoulder. ![]() As he ran through the corridors of the Capitol, he refused to face what lay ahead: "I thought I was going down there to meet the President," Truman said later, "I didn't allow myself to think anything else." Truman received a call urging him to come quickly and quietly to the White House. ![]() In all his life, Truman told a reporter, he had never had such a terrifying nightmare.Īpril 12, 1945. He had dreamed that Franklin Roosevelt had died, and he, Harry Truman, was President of the United States. One night in his private pullman car, he awoke in a cold sweat. New Orleans, Houston, Portland, Seattle, Boston, New York City, Washington, Pittsburgh, St. ![]() NARRATOR: In 1944, a little-known Senator from Missouri was campaigning for the office of Vice-President. ![]()
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