Back in Independence, Missouri, they...
Back in Independence, Missouri, they say that Harry Truman was a man of his word. So reported Merle Miller in his oral biography of the man who said he came to the presidency by accident. In Plain Speaking, not only Mr. Truman, but other citizens of Independence reported that it was routinely expected of a person down home that one lived up to the promises that one made. Mr. Truman explained how this pertained to any kind of bargain or trade that one made. Regardless of how circumstances or prices may have changed, one just lived up to what one had agreed to earlier. Mr.
