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Title	Missouri Historical Review, Volume 87 Issue 1, October 1992
Volume	87
Issue	1
Month	October
Year	1992
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2008
ISSN	0026-6581

Title	Page 36
Page Number	36
Article Title	President Harry S. Truman: Independent Baptist From Independence
Author	Bolt, Robert S.
Subject	Religion; Biography
County	Jackson
Volume	87
Issue	1
Month	October
Year	1992
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2009
ISSN	0026-6582
Transcription	^fgff State Historical Society of Missouri President Harry S. Truman: Independent Baptist From Independence BY ROBERT BOLT* A story that made the rounds when the Trumans occupied the White House had a distinguished woman hurrying to the Executive Mansion, urging Bess Truman to intercede with her husband concerning his language. The concerned lady had become aware that the president had labeled a comment he had heard as "a bunch of horse manure." In response to the woman, who thought the statement vulgar, Mrs. Truman calmly replied, "You don't know how many years it took to tone it down to that."1 Anecdotes such as this, Truman's penchant to excoriate certain individuals and the fact that he on occasion interjected "damns" and "hells" into his public utterances have led some to ♦Robert Bolt is a professor of history at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He holds the B.A. degree from Calvin College, the M.A. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University, East Lansing. 1 J. B. West, Upstairs at the White House: My Life With the First Ladies (New York: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, Inc., 1973), 78. 36

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