THE PRESIDENCY: Vigil

When he got a call one day last week that his 94-year-old mother was gravely ill, Harry Truman hopped into the presidential plane and flew to her home in Grandview, Mo. It was his fifth visit with her since she had broken her hip in a fall last February. This week, as she wavered, he was at her side.

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