TRUMAN, HARRY S., President . Typed letter signed ("Harry Truman") to Creighton C. Hart, Independence, Missouri, 25 February 1959. 1 page, 4to, on Truman's personal imprinted stationery, with a copy of Hart's letter to Truman. "A POLITICAL EUNUCH...IS A PERSON WHO HAS NO POLITICAL INFLUENCE, AND THAT IS THE SITUATION OF EVERY VICE PRESIDENT" "Thank you very much for sending me Mr. Justice Story's letter, which I read with a lot of interest. It is amazing that a Justice of the Supreme Court would stoop to using Daniel Webster's frank just to avoid payment of postage. "I am glad to have that information, however, because the members of the American Bar Association always take a holier-than-thou attitude regarding the actions of their profession. They usually try to get around any obstacle in a seemingly lawful manner, and this wonderful letter is a rather blunt and arrogant example. Then, responding to Hart's question concerning Truman's use of the term "political eunuch" in his letter of 6 April 1945 to Hugh Williamson (see preceding lot), Truman explains: "A political eunuch -- which, by the way, comes from the Greek word 'eunochos' -- is a person who has no political influence, and that is the situation of every Vice President."
TRUMAN, HARRY S., President . Typed letter signed ("Harry Truman") to Creighton C. Hart, Independence, Missouri, 25 February 1959. 1 page, 4to, on Truman's personal imprinted stationery, with a copy of Hart's letter to Truman. "A POLITICAL EUNUCH...IS A PERSON WHO HAS NO POLITICAL INFLUENCE, AND THAT IS THE SITUATION OF EVERY VICE PRESIDENT" "Thank you very much for sending me Mr. Justice Story's letter, which I read with a lot of interest. It is amazing that a Justice of the Supreme Court would stoop to using Daniel Webster's frank just to avoid payment of postage. "I am glad to have that information, however, because the members of the American Bar Association always take a holier-than-thou attitude regarding the actions of their profession. They usually try to get around any obstacle in a seemingly lawful manner, and this wonderful letter is a rather blunt and arrogant example. Then, responding to Hart's question concerning Truman's use of the term "political eunuch" in his letter of 6 April 1945 to Hugh Williamson (see preceding lot), Truman explains: "A political eunuch -- which, by the way, comes from the Greek word 'eunochos' -- is a person who has no political influence, and that is the situation of every Vice President."
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