Show ONCE OVER truman in a tub president truman in explaining the probable cost of around five million dollars to repair the white house declared my bathroom sagged so that I 1 had begun to fear it would go through the floor we cant see why the president was alarmed he would have been the first president ever to have fallen from one floor to another in his bath it would have made history fo for a century there might have been signs in the white house president harry S truman president of the united states landed here 0 or r on this spot harry S truman truma n made the first crash landing ever made in a white house ho u se bathtub glider type had harry kept his mouth shut let the building deteriorate and bravely crashed through the floor in his tub it might have been tar far from a calamity so far as hi his S fortunes are concerned people love the dramatic these days they crave entertainment and action as never before there on the ground floor in his second floor bathtub amid the rubble his head unbowed he would have won a new grip on the public the picture might have taken a place beside washington and the delaware in water exploits we can imagine some painter glorifying glorify ing it with an oil entitled truman crossing the dilapidated beams the accident would have given the people a new appreciation of what a president has to go through it would have kindled a mood of warm sympathy and understanding what man has ever stepped into a bathtub without at least a fleeting fear of an accident and how many have known what it is to take a tumble in one can you fancy their feelings for a president who had stepped into a tub gone down a flight or two I 1 this Is an era of rumor gossip and suspicion the story would have spread that the republicans public ans had undermined the timbers and this would have increased pity for or the president from coast to coast across mountains and valleys over brooks and rivers from log cabin to mansion the one cry would have gone up hows harry the world would have awaited breathlessly the hourly bulletins from the white house 10 AM the white house morning statement read the president is doing well but still suffering from his own amazement 1 I noon the president is resting his face is not so red by 10 degrees as was after the mishap I 1 P M mrs trumar was allowed to visit the president this afternoon she asked him simply it seems mighty funny to me that you and the tub went down two flights but your bathrobe remained on the hook book upstairs st 1 2 P M president truman got a telegram from thomas E dewey it read 1 I join the bathtub users of america in my deepest gratitude that you piloted the tub to a safe landing and I 1 sincerely hope you will soon be bathing again in the happiness and security which you have a right to expect from our country 3 P 51 henry wallace was asked to comment on the presidents bath tub accident and replied it was too far away tor for me to know the exact facts AU all I 1 know is that you hear of nothing like that happening in russia |