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Next day the lackshirt President was deluged with shirts. Eddie had managed to get a half dozen, and "some red hot bow ties" to boot. So had Henry Bradley, a St. Joseph newspaper publisher. At "noon Kansas City's Jesters Club gave him three more—two the wrong size. Grinning, the President gave the Jesters some outside political talk: "When I hear the Republicans saying I'm doing all right, I know damn well I'm doing wrong. . . ." Two hours later Alf Landon visited him, came out praising him to the skies.
The President went off for a last visit with his 92-year-old mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, at Grandview, Mo., then drove back to Independence. Next morning he was aboard the presidential plane (which he calls "The Sacred Cow"), on his way to Washington and points east.