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...indicted Guardsmen were getting support from others too. At least three Ohio organizations have set up defense funds; one fund alone has already received $10,000. At the Cleveland Trust, the state's largest bank, a special account has been opened for contributions. In an editorial, the Cleveland Plain Dealer urged the state of Ohio to cover the Guardsmen's legal expenses because "these men were sent to Kent State by the state on a police mission . . . higher employees of the state were responsible for their arming and deploying...
...PLAIN SPEAKING is an entertaining experiment in oral biography that works fairly well because Harry Truman had a folksy and unpretentious way of expressing himself. The book consists of interviews conducted in the early 1960s with Truman, his family, and many of his friends and colleagues as well as commentary by Merle Miller...
Unfortunately Plain Speaking is little more than such an exposure to Harry Truman's views on the major personalities and events of his time. Miller makes no real attempt to go beyond the anecdotes--interesting as they are--to work at some sort of psycho-historical interpretation. His admiration of Truman is so intense it approaches hero-worship. The result is that Miller's questions are largely set-ups, which fail to press Truman in the least, and merely afford the ex-President an opportunity to display his nobility of purpose and character...
...BOOK COMES complete with Miller's homespun philosophy: "We need more Presidents who have run from fights and admit it. We must run from more fights. That's our only hope." Plain Speaking could do with more probing of Truman's personality and less banal simplicity...
...early sixties. But apparently as a result of residual McCarthy era anti-Truman sentiment, he was still too hot a subject for television to handle at the time. The series was never produced. Miller's interviews probably would have made a remarkable television event. But as a biography, Plain Speaking leaves much to be desired...