In May 1948, as President Harry Truman ... him a cushy federal job if he would forgo a re-election bid so the president could maneuver a favored crony into his seat. Truman’s reply to a ...

The weight of history presses upon the shoulders of every president of the United States ... hunger for power while others, like Harry S. Truman, step forward reluctantly, guided not by personal ...

In a scrapbook in Pogany’s house is a 1949 letter President Harry S. Truman wrote to her ... “It’s the same thing we face.” Roberts met Truman before he was president, when he lived ...