1953: Truman and the Justice 🧵
One summer day, a man in a rumpled suit and hat enters Mt. St. Helens Lodge. Harry Truman notices. "Tell that old coot if he wants a cabin, we don't have any." The man leaves.
Another guy tells Truman that's SC Justice William O. Douglas. “I'll be goddamn go to hell!”
One summer day, a man in a rumpled suit and hat enters Mt. St. Helens Lodge. Harry Truman notices. "Tell that old coot if he wants a cabin, we don't have any." The man leaves.
Another guy tells Truman that's SC Justice William O. Douglas. “I'll be goddamn go to hell!”
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"We don’t have a cabin vacant now," he tells Douglas, "but we do have a nice room up in the lodge you can have. And I’ve got some great horses."
Douglas perks up at "horses."
Douglas loved Truman’s bluntness, something he missed while in Washington D.C., while Truman admired Douglas’s power and intellect.
Two distinct worlds, yet a shared respect.
One night at camp, Truman’s pants caught fire. Refusing help, he opted for “drugstore ointments.”
In 1969, Douglas wrote to Harry on his 40th anniversary at Spirit Lake: "Harry, make the next forty years the same as the first forty. But do be careful; and remember that I am not always there to take care of you."
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