Subject: Re: Bob is now in Truman?
From: twain@blake.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin)
Date: 1991-02-26, 11:33
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <6623@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@bird.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
> >In article <59940045@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> richardh@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Richard Hancock) writes:
>> >>
>> >>Wasn't the "S." in "Harry S. Truman" a phantom initial? Or did it stand for
>> >>the name of a Communist (or am I thinking of some other American?)
> >
> >Yes, partly.  President Harry S Truman's middle name really was
> >nothing more than the letter S -- I remember once readong someting
> >about him not liking his middle name, or being disgusted by the idea
> >of middle names, or something, and dropping all but the first letter.
> >Or maybe he was named that from the start -- I don't know.
> >

[Stuff about OUR Harry S. Truman deleted]