{"id":27854,"date":"2019-07-15T15:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27854"},"modified":"2019-07-15T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:39:05","slug":"givem-harry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27854","title":{"rendered":"Give&#8217;m Harry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48292868961_d2465bbafd_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I read the following wonderful summary of Harry Truman on Facebook today. Then I looked at the apparently pro-Trump author&#8217;s Facebook Page. He didn&#8217;t write it so I searched for the actual author. It seems no one has taken credit for it. The description of the man who was President when I was born accords with everything I&#8217;ve previously read although I can&#8217;t entirely vouch for its full accuracy. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation&#8217;s history as any of the other 32 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8216;allowance&#8217; and later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.<\/p>\n<p>When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, &#8220;You don&#8217;t want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn&#8217;t belong to me.. It belongs to the American people and it&#8217;s not for sale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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, &#8220;I don&#8217;t consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.<\/p>\n<p>Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today , too 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    <\/p>\n<p>Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, &#8220;My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there&#8217;s hardly any difference!<\/p>\n<p>We ought to have cloned him for telling it like it is and being frugal with our tax dollars!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That a pro&#8211;Trumper would circulate something that so diametrically contradicts Donald Trump and which I find so compelling suggests to me that our mutual admiration for Harry offers hope to America. And by the way. Truman&#8217;s order to integrate the US Armed Forces began the stampede of Southern Democrats out of the Democratic Party and eventually into the once hated Party of Lincoln&#8230;&#8230;where they promptly forgot about the sixteenth President.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reestablishing my old domain Givemhellharry.org to advertise my 2019 school board campaign. I&#8217;ll be taking book orders from there as well.<\/p>\n<p>READERS WHO CAN&#8217;T STOP THEMSELVES FROM VISITING LINCOLNDEMOCRAT&#8230;IF YOU LIKED THIS CONSIDER BUYING THE BOOK THAT WILL HELP ME FINANCE MY SCHOOL BOARD CAMPAIGN. $15 will cover printing for 500 books. A little extra will help with other campaign costs.<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/><br \/>\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"RXG2R2TNZMBSE\" \/><br \/>\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" title=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" alt=\"Donate with PayPal button\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read the following wonderful summary of Harry Truman on Facebook today. Then I looked at the apparently pro-Trump author&#8217;s Facebook Page. 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