Truman · The Buck Stops Here · Heritage Holiday Ornament
Truman · The Buck Stops Here · Heritage Holiday Ornament
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Truman. A crowd in hats and good coats, a new sign going up, and someone holding up a milk bottle the way you would hold champagne at a ship launching. It is 1945, and a little prairie community has just picked its new namesake.
On April 12, 1945, with no warning at all, Harry Truman was sworn in as president, and he said afterward that it felt as if the moon and the stars had fallen on him. Within five months he had seen the war end in Europe and then in the Pacific. He kept a small sign on his desk that read The Buck Stops Here, and he meant every word of it.
Across the country, people took to the plain-spoken Missourian. Out on the Texas prairie that November, a crossroads of a couple hundred souls called Thin Gravy was so taken with the new president that it voted to take his name instead, then christened the sign with milk, because they were dairy country and milk is what they had. Give 'em Hell Harry had admirers in the unlikeliest places.
Drawn for us in sepia tones and set in crystal so the crowd, the hats and the lettering read under the lights. Three inches across; 1945 at pocket size.
For Truman admirers and presidential history readers, anyone who loves 1940s America, and anybody who still thinks the buck should stop somewhere. Profits go to hunger relief.
Faceted crystal, three inches across, with a white back so the line work reads from across the room once the tree is lit. Red ribbon. Boxed in gold or white, your call at checkout. Ships free anywhere in the U.S.
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