Soon after the trains stopped running last week, President Truman went to a White House garden party, sipped some lemonade and calmly ate a dish of ice cream. It was a party for disabled war veterans, arranged several weeks before. Harry Truman shook hands with some 900 wounded men, many of them in wheel chairs. One disabled man asked the President how the railroad strike was going. Said Harry Truman: it was still on.
He knew at that moment what he was going to do about the strike and about the threat of a resumed coal strike. For weeks he had...
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