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Former U.S. president, Harry S Truman was an artillery Captain in World War One. (“The war to end all wars”).
    One dark, rainy night, his artillery battery was on the move.  Captain Truman was horseback, They used horses to tow the artillery pierre (cannons) the.  As he rode, he missed seeing a real tree limb which struck him in the face - knocking his glasses off. 
Harry Truman was virtually blind without his glasses.  He about panicked; he wasn’t carrying an extra pair of specks.  Thinking he was in a pickle, he made his way the best he could until they stopped the next morning.  Captain Truman thought there was no need of backtracking trying to find his glasses somewhere back there in the mud.  There really was no need to do that.    As he dismounted he sighted his glasses resting on the horses’ rump.  They had ridden with him...still in good shape.
Harry Truman was not only a habitual reader, he was no doubt one of the most astute students of world history of all the presidents of his era.  This helped him in foreign policy later in his office.  The snobbish bunch from up-East : the Lowells, the Cabot's, the Harrimans, and the Lodges, were not at all impressed with this “high-school graduate only” from a one - horse town in Missouri.
“Fact is when Vice President Truman became U.S. President after the sudden death of President Franklin Roosevelt; former ambassador to “Lower Slobovia”, Averell Harriman said, “I was astounded how much truman knew about the ins-and-outs of the oval office.    As Vice-President he had read every communique that ever came through the Oval office - except the ones: “For the President’s Eyes Only!”
Mrs Truman (Bess) frequently visited her aging mother back in Missouri.  Once after a lengthy visit in Missouri, the next morning, after arriving back at the White House -  as the Head Usher tells it: “:Mrs Truman came to me and like a blushing bride said, “Would you please check the President’s bed, I believe a slat has fallen out.” 
So much for the passing parade…
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