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Show DREW PEARSON I President's Bank Account XT HEN and If Harry Truman leaves the White House, he will have saved up until 1948 just about $4,000 a year out of the total $75,000 annual salary which the people peo-ple of the United States pay their presidents. In the year 1948, thanks to a Republican tax cut, Mr. Truman Tru-man will save more. The President sat down with paper pa-per and pencil the other day and figured that his job as president had paid him only $1 an hour up until theJOP tax cut. He estimated that, getting up early in the morning as he always does, he had averaged 4,200 hours a year on the job. After taxes and other heavy expenses of entertaining and travel, he saved ?4,000 the first year and $4,200 the second or about one dollar an hour. However, In 1948, thanks to the Republican'tax cut, his net income will be $12,000. "And 1 vetoed that bill," chuckled the President. Today Mr. Truman is out on the hustings trying to break through his usual wall of bodyguards, servants and secretaries in order to show the people his human side. The truth is, that . despite the steady stream of callers Truman receives daily and the reams written about him, only a few close friends know the real man inside the White House. Actually, he is a lonesome man. Not many people know, for Instance, In-stance, that Truman keeps two large anthologies of poems on a desk by his bedside and, before dropping off to sleep at night, likes to prop himself him-self up in bed and read from the classics. His favorites are Shelley and Keats, but he can also recite at length from "Alice in Wonderland." One passage the President likes to quote is the Red Queen's remark to Alice: "Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place." Truman also likes to read history especially the biographies and autobiographies au-tobiographies of his predecessors because, he told a friend, "It is men who make history." |