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...Home at last," said Rafael Cancel Miranda, 49, as he stepped out of the plane, fist high in the air. Echoed a tearful Oscar Collazo, 67, who had stormed Blair House in an attempt to shoot and kill President Truman in 1950: "I am so happy to be in a place where I am not afraid to express my emotions." (His 45-year-old niece rushed to embrace him, apparently suffered a heart attack, and died minutes later on the way to a hospital.) A third man, Irving Flores Rodriguez, 54, declared that liberty "has to be conquered by blood...
...President Truman said if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. All politics is kitchens, and Harvard is like a breath of pure oxygen," he says...
...dull metallic click startled White House Guard Donald Birdzell as he stood watch at Blair House, where President Harry Truman was staying while the Executive Mansion was being remodeled. Birdzell turned to face a German P-38 automatic pistol held by Oscar Collazo, a Puerto Rican Nationalist. Both men began shooting. Birdzell was hit in both legs. Collazo sprawled on the sidewalk, wounded. Almost simultaneously another Nationalist, Griselio Torresola, attacked a nearby guard post with a Luger, killing a White House guard, Leslie Coffelt, and injuring Plainclothesman Joseph H. Downs. Before he died, Coffelt killed Torresola. From an upstairs window...
...veteran. The four men, aided by half the wits in Manhattan, brainstormed for months and recruited more than three dozen writers from such places as the Lampoon, the New York Times, Harper's, TIME, New York magazine and The New Yorker. George Plimpton wrote an unsigned parody of Truman Capote's long-unfinished Answered Prayers ("He thought about the smooth leather of the banquettes under his rear end and how he would look out and think about his enemies"). Fugitive Abbie Hoffman mailed in word of the Checker Cab Co.'s new nonpolluting taxi: a rickshaw pulled...
...Harry Truman took a liking to Joe Stalin, but when he got a case of the old dictator's best vodka, Truman gave it away, wondering about any man who would drink the stuff over bourbon. Truman watched with fascination as Secretary of State Dean Acheson verbally diminished Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, who had the idea he should be a larger figure around the White House...