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rpannier

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Thu Jun 4, 2020, 01:58 AM Jun 2020

70 years ago assassins tried to assassinate President Truman

On November 1, 1950 two men attempted to assassinate the late Pres Harry S Truman
Truman was staying in the Blair House while the White House was being renovated
The attack came too quickly to have moved President Truman to a safer location
As the Secret Service agents shot it out with the would be assassins, President Truman watched from a window upstairs (about 31 ft from the attackers).
Notice how he wasn't hiding under the bed or in a closet. He was actually watching the whole thing
il douche would have probably wet himself.

Also, to give you an idea of how much the better the man Truman ever was than trump; Oscar Collazo, one of the two would be assassins survived the encounter, while the other man Torresola was killed. He received a sentence of the death penalty. Truman commuted the sentence to life (eventually he was pardoned by Jimmy Carter).
He also recognized the importance of Puerto Rican independence to some. He ordered a plebiscite in Puerto Rico in 1952 on the new constitution to determine its relationship to the U.S. The people voted 81.9% in favor of continuing as a Free Associated State, as established in 1950.

il douche would probably have bombed the island. Cotton probably would have called on the police to attack every brown-skinned person that they saw.

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70 years ago assassins tried to assassinate President Truman (Original Post) rpannier Jun 2020 OP
"Truman commented that he was not frightened by the attack: since he was a combat veteran of WW1" Renew Deal Jun 2020 #1

Renew Deal

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1. "Truman commented that he was not frightened by the attack: since he was a combat veteran of WW1"
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 06:50 AM
Jun 2020

Afterwards, Truman commented that he was not frightened by the attack: since he was a combat veteran of the First World War, he "had [already] been shot at by professionals [i.e. German soldiers]."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Harry_S._Truman

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