Posted on 02/09/2017 1:33:11 PM PST by nikos1121
A LINE has been drawn under a famous episode in American presidential folklore with the death of a mild-mannered music reviewer once threatened with serious physical injury by President Harry Truman. Paul Hume, The Washington Post's music critic, wrote a gently damning review of the singing of Margaret Truman, the president's daughter, at a 1950 Washington recital. "Miss Truman is a unique American phenomenon with a pleasant voice of little size and fair quality," Hume wrote of the performance. "She is extremely attractive on stage, yet Miss Truman cannot sing very well. She is flat a good deal of the time. . ." Truman was livid and fired off a letter, branding Hume "an eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay". Then he added: "Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!"
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Apparently the media and the clowns of the democrat party are lining up to criticize Donald Trump on defending his daughter, Ivanka, who's line of clothing has been dropped by Nordstrums and a few others.
THEY MAY HAVE FORGOTTON OR NOT KNOWN ABOUT HARRY TRUMAN'S LETTER SENT TO A MUSIC CRITIC WHO SLAMMED HIS DAUGHTER.
Truman was a democrat.
I grew up in the KC Mo TV market. Whenever the media wanted a salty quote about a Republican, they would send a reporter out to Independence to interview Harry.
If Harry Truman was alive today he’d be a Republican. That being said, my father hated his guts for getting his first born son killed in the first few months of the Korean “Police Action”.
Any relation to Brit Hume?
Truman was a 1940s-50s democrat. He dropped 2 nukes on enemies. He dropped the balll on Korea....but was proud to be an American.
Democrats today hate Americans.
I just finished McCullough’s biography of Harry Truman....President Trump and Truman have some very similar traits.
Mr. Hume would have been 18 or 19 in 1950. Pretty young to be a Washington Post music critic.
Thank goodness Harry Truman didn’t have Twitter. He might have told someone to go to heck.
Might want to check your math.
He was 34.
“Fume”? More like wildly over-react.
That letter is borderline psychopathic.
I now realized you published a 15 year old article. You should have made this clear.
Trump’s tweet is tame in comparison.
Great Bio!!! Didn’t he write the one on Lindbergh too?
Sorry, just wanted to make a point!
Odd that Democrats decry what they used to champion: slavery, segregation, internment camps, use of nuclear weapons, opposition to women’s suffrage. They champion what they used to decry, e.g. suppression of free speech, surrendering working class jobs to cheap labor. They have short memories, and no sense of shame.
Yes...almost 1000 pages...but it reads well...don’t know about Lindbergh
Truman threatened the guy with all kinds of bodily harm. Trump calls them “fake news”. Truman even hand-wrote the letter to the music critic, licked the stamp and everything, according to “Give ‘em Hell, Harry”. No doubt Harry “Trumpman” would have Tweeted. He was also “real big on nuclear”.
People don’t realize that he left office a poor man.
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