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From: Alok Tholiya
Sent: 08/09/2011, 6:08 AM
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Subject: [rti4empowerment] : Harry Truman - Amazing Sincerity!!!!!-CAN INDIAN MPs and MLAs learn something from this ?????????????
Will someone pls forward this to all our MPs and MLAs?
We will never see this again!
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Thought you'd enjoy this!
It's one you want your
Children and Grandchildren to read.
They won't believe this happened, but it DID.
Harry & Bess
(This seems unreal.)
Harry Truman
was a different kind of President. He probably made as many,
or more important decisions regarding the history of the USA as any of the
other 42 Presidents preceding him.
However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left
the White House.
The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in,
which was in Missouri.
His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than
their years in
the White House,
they lived their entire lives there.
When he retired from office in 1952 his income was a U.S.Army pension
reported to have been $13,507.72.
Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking
them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of
$25,000 per year.
After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to
Missouri by themselves.
There was no Secret Service following them.
When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating,
"You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't
belong to me.
It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."
Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the
Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing,
"I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for
any award,
Congressional or otherwise."
As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.
Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the
Presidency, resulting in untold wealth.
Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become wealthy while
enjoying the fruits of their offices.
Politi
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