there's nobody in this room younger than margaret truman at that point. [laughter] to get out first. [laughter] >> that wasgate x5rmob, though. there was a bad mob that was -- and they had more than( umbrellas. they had ball bats and tire irons. so as these things go, we'll call that the bad mob. we're at the m's already. n, neighbors, they could not be improved by a good fence. outcast. i have a kid name lemoncats whose father throws him in kind of a high school kid, one of those kids that's it from the day he first starts school. everybody is picking on him at the playground. so finally his father makes him go out for football in high school to make a man of him and it's one of >> it is one of those deals i have never been on an athletic team that i have not been on the outcast. i keep saying i, but keep in mind it is a novel, not a memoir, but at any rate this guy would smuggle baby ruth candy bars into practices and he would go and hide behind a block of demi's -- a demi's and he gets caught and the coach with him up and had bought him. and makes him

the room was this size but it was completely full of people mostly to hear margaret truman. margaret shows up, doesn't say

truman ate lunch here june 21st, 1953. they went to washington and saw friends he gave the speech in philadelphia and went to new york and spent eight interesting days with margaret as their guide sightseeing in new york. they stayed at the waldorf towers. i was curious how harry was to afford this at the truman library, he saved everything. harry never wrote a letter that he didn't save and he has -- they have all the correspondence with the general manager of the waldorf towers and soon after the waldorf heard harry was going to be making a trip and they wrote him a letter you know would you like to stay with us for free and harry wrote back and said i think that would be all right. [laughter] >> so that's how harry truman, former leader of the free world now cash-strapped was able to afford eight nights at the waldorf. it's kind of interesting harry was in -- i'm going to forget the floor. his suite was directly above herbert hoover's. hoover lived at the waldorf at the time. and truman and hoover had a sort of back and forth -- they had a complex relationship. truman kind of rehabilitated hoover's reputation after roosevelt died, they changed the name what wa

mentioned he was looking for a silver dollar minted in 1924, the year of margaret's birth silver dollars poured in by the dozens. trumanestimated that less than one-half of 1% of the letters came from crackpots. a statistic that surprised him. i expected more, he said. i had many chances to make people mad. truman maintained an open door policy in just about anybody who dropped by was likely to get an audience with the former president. many people, he said, feel that a president or an ex-president are partly there and they have a right to call upon him. his office telephone number was listed in the kansas city directory. baltimore 6150. his home number was unlisted. probably indeference to bess. when he wasn't answering mail, entertaining mail visitors or taking telephone calls truman was busy raising money for the library. it would serve for a repository for his papers which for the time being were stored in 400 four-drawer filing cabinets in a room in the fourth floor in the jackson county courthouse. he envisioned it for a research center for colleges in the midwest. he wasn't interested to an memorial. i'll be cus

truman ate lunch here june 21st, 1953. they went to washington and saw friends he gave the speech in philadelphia and went to new york and spent eight interesting days with margarets their guide sightseeing in new york. they stayed at the waldorf towers. i was curious how harry was to afford this at the truman library, he saved everything. harry never wrote a letter that he didn't save and he has -- they have all the correspondence with the general manager of the waldorf towers and soon after the waldorf heard harry was going to be making a trip and they wrote him a letter you know would you like to stay with us for free and harry

truman slept in. in indianapolis they crashed with friends as people often do on road trips. they stayed at the house of the former democratic national committee chairman frank mckinney and his wife margaret and i spoke with their daughter, claire mckinney, who told me that she came home that night from a night of dancing only to find harry truman playing their family's living room piano, you know, in the early morning hours. apparently, harry, had a couple of bourbons that night. in frostburg, maryland they stopped at the princess restaurant a great town in far western maryland. they splurged on the chicken dinner. the cook was an old army mess sergeant and harry, of course, was his old commander in chief so there's no getting away from it there. and soon, of course, business was booming at the princess and phones were ringing all over town. and the princesst