Monday. Jan, 19. 1953 University Daily Kansan
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Truman Content feels He Served His Country Well
Washington — (U.P.)— The plucky little man who never thought he would be President put in his last day in the White House today, content he has served his country well.
For the first time in seven years and nine months, there were no crushing problems on Harry S. Truman's desk in the oval office in the west wing.
These were fled away carefully for the man who will take over the swivel chair after the inauguration shortly after noon tomorrow, President-elect Eisenhower.
For the 68-year-old former senator and county judge there were only memories now of tumultuous, historic years in which the nation rose of age and into conflict with the Communist colossus.
President Truman was expected to spend most of the day saying his personal goodbyes, arranging his effects for the move to Missouri tomorrow, and in gathering together a few personal records.
In his last days in office, the one time precinct captain's main preoccupation has been to lay the groundwork for a favorable mention in the histories of future years.
The outgoing President was not expected at any of today's inaugural festivities. He is scheduled to make his last public appearance at the inauguration ceremonies tomorrow.
After the swearing-in, Mr. Truman will attend a lunch Secretary of State Dean Acheson is giving for him and his cabinet. Four hours later, he will board the presidential railroad car to Independence, Mo.
President Truman's schedule was not firm but White House aides scotched rumors that he and Gen. Eisenhower planned a pre-inaugural meeting.
In spite of the controversies and the criticism, Mr. Truman did play the lead role in such momentous war decisions as the Marshall Owen, Greek, Turkish, and Iranian aid, and North Atlantic pact, the Korean war, and development and use of the atomic bomb.
He and his friends have started a $2,500,000 drive to build a Truman Memorial library in Missouri to house and display the President's record.
Mr. Truman said he thought a "million" other men would have made better Presidents when the death of the late Franklin Roosevelt propelled him into the job April 12, 1945.
But as he picked up experience, he grew more confident that on the big things—the things that counted as he said in his farewell address—he was doing right by the nation and the free world.
Fisherman Lost As Rescue Fails
Miami Beach, Fla. — (U.P.)—The Coast Guard searched today for the body of a courageous fisherman who was swept into the ocean from the hands of rescuers after their 30-minute battle to save him.
Two companion fishermen twice had Nelson L. Wheeler, 41, within reach after he fell early yesterday while throwing a cast net from a jetty pier at Baker's Haulover, ocean outlet for Biscayne bay, but the tide waters finally swept him out into the Atlantic.
Wheeler showed no sign of panic as Xavier Carrillo and C. L. Roy frantically to save him. Once he told them calmly: "Better hurry, follows, or I'm a goner!"
Wheeler came to Miami five months ago with his wife and two children from St. Louis so he could spend the rest of his life near the water.
Tunisian Violence Strikes
Tunis, Tunisia —(U.P.) Two persons were killed and six others injured last night when terrorists machine-gunned and bombed a sidewalk cafe in the worst outbreak of violence in more than six weeks.
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