Gil Klein in the Newsroom of the National Press Club –
Changing his glasses, putting on a hat and modifying his voice, Clifton Truman Daniel transformed himself into his famous grandfather, President Harry Truman, and told a Sept. 2, 2020 National Press Club audience, “I never saw myself as president. I was just in the right place at the wrong damn time,” he said.
“Lots of folks could do a better job, but it became mine to do, and as long as you put me here, you will get the best I’ve got. I’ve always considered myself an ordinary man. I don’t have any special personal endowments. I don’t waste my time worrying about what I don’t have. I just try to do the best with what I do have.”
Scroll down here to see the Press Club’s “most famous picture” –
Taken during a World War II canteen for servicemen, then vice president Harry Truman played an upright piano while movie actress Lauren Becall sat on top and draped her long legs seductively over the side to the soldiers – and photographers – delight.
