![]() ![]() “I stood it as long as I could,” said Harry Truman, “and I said, ‘If you say another word about Roosevelt, I’m going to throw you out that window.’” Kennedy, Jr., blown up with his bomber on a dangerous mission. ![]() “And he commenced throwing rocks at Roosevelt, saying that he had caused the murder of his own son by bringing on a war.” Joe meant Joseph P. Truman was with Bob Hannegan, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Bob was hitting up old Joe for some money for the campaign in which Roosevelt was running for a fourth term. In that antediluvian year he remembered being at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston, and “who should be in the suite but old man Kennedy,” Joseph P. He was having a taping session with two friends, William Hillman and David Noyes, and his yet very active mind-he was seventy-seven in 1961-went back to 1944, when he was running for the Vice Presidency. Truman told it was pretty good, even for that eminent storyteller. ![]()
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