Harry Truman Museum & Library

                     Today we spent a few hours at the Truman Museum & Library in Independence, MO.

                                Here's Judy exiting the Truman oval office under a large mural.

                                                Again, no flash pictures were allowed.

                                          Judy thought Harry was short but he's still taller!

Harry & Bess (along with their only daughter and her husband) are buried in the Museum/Library courtyard.

It was a very interesting visit.  we started with a 45 minute video of Truman's life, from the son of a bankrupt farmer, to bank clerk, to WWI artillery officer, to clothing store owner, to local politician, to senator, to VP to president.  One of his goals, unfulfilled, was national health care, sound familiar?  It was quite interesting that all the political crap going on today is not new.  This leads me to understand politicians through history are all crooks.  Seems to me they have had way too much practice and experience.