The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I stepped on one, which I think was either cucumber or watercress. I scraped it off on the curbing, left it there for germs. I'll tell you this, though: No germ is going to leave the Solar System eating sissy stuff like that. Plutonium! Now there's the stuff to put hair on a microbe's chest. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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A couple of days after being released from prison, Harry S. Truman wrote to his sister, “Well, I don't think it's any fun to be in jail.” He had been in the White House for four years when he wrote this letter, and had served as vice president for eight, president for two. But when he wrote about the tedium of prison life, he was talking about his time in the White House. Truman was bored in the White House. He hated the pomp and circumstance that surrounded him.

He had often complained that the people in Washington were always trying to prove they were something more than they were. Truman didn’t like it when people in Washington made him feel like they might be better than him, so he tried to avoid them whenever possible. He saw no reason to pretend he was something he wasn’t, so he avoided the pomp and circumstance of the White House whenever possible.

When Truman was in prison, however, he didn’t want to pretend he was somebody else; his friends had called him Harry instead of Mr. President since high school, but he didn't want to pretend that didn't exist anymore either!

Source: Hocus Pocus

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