The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-23
Will Take Wife
And Daughter
With Hin.
BY ERNEST 3 vAccARo

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into all over Jackson County to-
day was Harry S. Truman.
Just to look at him, strolling
along the sidewalks, with an in
fectious grin on his face, you
would never guess three days ago
he was president of the United
States if you hadn't seen his pic
ture in the papers so often.
The new ex-President was TAX
ing the problem of adjustment af-
ter nearly eight years in the White
House, with all its attendant bur-
dens, in easy stride.
And so was Jackson County
Kansas City, where he has his
new private offices; independence,
where he and Mrs. Truman live in
the big white frame house on North
Delaware Street; and Grandview,
where his family has a farm.
When you consider that this S.
year-old man, with the blue eyes
twinkling beneath his thick lensed
Spectacles, came home only Thurs
day night after turning over the
White House to Dwight D. Eisen-
hover, you had to admit that the
adjustment was coming along fine.
This reporter. bumped into Tru-
man at his offices on the 18th floor
of the Federal Reserve Bank Build
ing, where the ex-PreSident tack
led the job of answering hundreds
of letters and kilograms.
81 feel like a country boy in
the big city again." Truman as
serted.
! He said that he didn't know what
kind of job he would take and
qoulsn't make a decision for some
time on the many offers he has
received.
"But / won't do anything that
would reflect on, or commercial
ize, the great office / have held"
he said.
| At the present time, he added,
he does not consider there is any
possibility that he viii run for con-
gress, and he doesn't think that
he viii seek any office again.
What he would like to do is to
get away with Mrs. Truman and
his daughter Margaret for long
rest. After all, he pointed out,
practically everybody else who
participated in last years hectic
political campaign has done so.
The most noticeable thing about
Truman when you run into him
in Jackson County nowadays is the
absence of the Secret Service body
guard that surrounded him when
he was president.
But he does have two body
guards, both former members Of
Battery D. of the 35th Divisions
129th Field Artillery which Tru-
man commanded in France in 1918.
They are Sgt. Arthur Bell, a
member of the state highway pa
troll who was assigned to guard
Truman during a period of adjust
ment, and 1t. Fred Rollers, of
the Kansas City police department,
to look after him when he goes
into Kansas City.
Truman's big interest now is to
see construction get under way on
a library and cultural center on
the family farm at Grandview to
house his presidential papers and
serve as a student research mecca.
He invited reporters to join him
at Grandview today to look over
the site of the proposed library
for which private funds now are
being sought by personal friends.
The project is estimated to cost
Ia million dollars.
The ex.PreSident, after driving
to nearby Kansas City from indie
pendence yesterday in a aeate
highway patrol car. walked over
to the Muehlebach Hotel for lunch.
Almost anyone who wanted to,
strolled into his offices to shake
hands and ask questions. As he
told one old friend:
You don't need an appointment
TO see me now"