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TRUMAN, Harry S. and NIXON, Richard M. Photograph signed ("Harry S. Truman") and ("Richard Nixon"), both as former President, 25 April 1969 - 15 February 1990. 8 7/8 x 6 7/8 in, including mount. Both signatures on lower edge of mount, with Nixon recording two dates: 30 March 1969 (the date of their meeting depicted in the photo) and 15 February 1990 (the date Nixon signed it).
TRUMAN, Harry S. and NIXON, Richard M. Photograph signed ("Harry S. Truman") and ("Richard Nixon"), both as former President, 25 April 1969 - 15 February 1990. 8 7/8 x 6 7/8 in, including mount. Both signatures on lower edge of mount, with Nixon recording two dates: 30 March 1969 (the date of their meeting depicted in the photo) and 15 February 1990 (the date Nixon signed it). NIXON'S PILGRIMAGE TO INDEPENDENCE MISSOURI on 30 March 1969, to deliver Truman's old White House piano to the President's Library in Independence. The photo shows Nixon on Truman's right, guiding him down the front steps of Truman's home, while the elderly Truman steadies himself on his cane. "Give em Hell Harry" has become a thin, frail old man by 1969. It was a magnanimous gesture, for Nixon surely knew that Truman held him in contempt--a feeling that had not mellowed with age. Yet Truman was old, feeble, nearly deaf, and he went along with the photo op that Nixon imposed on him. When Nixon couldn't resist sitting down at the piano and banging out "The Missouri Waltz"--a tune Truman hated--the old man turned to Bess and in an overly loud voice asked. "What was that?"