Friendly, gregarious Harry Truman had his fun during his half-week trip to Missouri with Winston Churchill. Their Baltimore & Ohio private train was out of Washington less than an hour when the President walked its length, shaking hands with reporters, cameramen, secret service men, crewmen. Up in the cab of the diesel engine he delighted himself and cameramen by pulling on a pair of cotton work gloves and sitting at the controls while the long, blue train rumbled through the West Virginia hills.
Churchill stuck to his bedroom for much of the journey. But the President was on the rear platform at...
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