The tale of financial woe Truman was telling the television public was the same one he had been repeating privately to leaders of Congress, as he pushed for a bill to provide him with a pension. They’re just allowed to starve.” Truman went on to claim that only his recent inheritance of the family farm was keeping him off the welfare rolls: “If I hadn’t inherited some property that finally paid things through, I’d be on relief right now.” “You know,” Truman told Murrow, “the United States government turns its chief executives out to grass.
Among various other topics, the great journalist asked Harry Truman about how he was getting along financially.Īs was his custom, the plainspoken Missourian minced no words about his situation. Murrow’s CBS program See It Now was treated to a historical first: a television interview with a former president of the United States. In February 1958, the immense prime-time audience that tuned into Edward R.
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