With the air of a man on his way to the dentist, Harry S. (for nothing*) Truman boarded the presidential yacht Williamsburg. He was headed for a meeting with Governor William Munford Tuck, a leader of the Southern revolt against his civil-rights program. Both the President and Tuck, along with Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and her Governor General, starchy Viscount Alexander of Tunis, were to receive honorary doctorates of laws (Truman's eleventh honorary degree) from the College of William and Mary.
"Glad to See You." The trip started badly....
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