By Matthew Algeo
On June 19, 1953, Harry Truman received up early, packed the trunk of his Chrysler New Yorker, and did anything no different former president has performed ahead of or seeing that: he hit the line. No mystery provider security. No touring press. simply Harry and his formative years sweetheart Bess, off to go to outdated pals, absorb a Broadway play, rejoice their marriage ceremony anniversary within the ny, and blow a little the cash he’d simply acquired to write down his memoirs. expectantly incognito. during this vigorous heritage, writer Matthew Algeo meticulously information how Truman’s plan to mixture in went splendidly awry. Fellow diners, bellhops, cabbies, squealing kids at a destiny Homemakers of the USA conference, and one very by-the-book Pennsylvania nation trooper all unknowingly conspired to blow his hide. Algeo revisits the Trumans’ direction, staying on the comparable inns and consuming on the similar diners, and takes readers on short detours into subject matters akin to the postwar American automobile undefined, McCarthyism, the nation’s street method, and the decline of major road the United States. by means of the top of the 2,500-mile trip, you have got a brand new and heartfelt appreciation for America’s final citizen-president.
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Not until the Social Security Act was signed by FDR in 1935 were most workers guaranteed at least some income after retirement. As a government employee, however, Harry Truman did not qualify for Social Security. And he’d left the Senate too soon to qualify for a congressional pension. His only income was that army pension. 2 Independence, Missouri, Winter and Spring, 1953 No twentieth-century president retired to more humble surroundings than Harry Truman. When not traveling the world, Teddy Roosevelt returned to Sagamore Hill, his estate on Long Island.
Steering issues notwithstanding, Harry Truman loved his New Yorker. With its wire wheels, whitewall tires, and gleaming chrome trim—not to mention its famous driver—the big black sedan soon became the most recognizable vehicle in Independence, a distinction that made Truman proud. As he tootled around town, running errands with Bess or just taking it out for a spin, passing motorists would honk and wave, bringing that famous toothy smile to the ex-president’s face. Harry cared for the New Yorker the same way he cared for all his cars: with a meticulousness that bordered on the compulsive.
It was something he hadn’t been able to do in eight years, to move about as he wished, unencumbered by Secret Service agents. When he walked into one car and the passengers began to rise in deference, Truman stopped them. “Don’t get up,” he said. ” At 7:15 on the morning after the inauguration—Truman’s first full day as ex-president—the train stopped for a fifteen-minute layover in Cincinnati. Truman disembarked with the other passengers and waited patiently in line to buy the morning papers at the station’s newsstand.