REAGAN’S FALL

According to “Mr. Citizen,” a book written by Harry S. Truman after he left the White House, the ex-President was an inveterate reader of newspapers. If Truman somehow got delivery of Los Angeles Times Magazine on March 4, he is for sure spinning in his Missouri grave.

“The thing that was most unbelievable was the number of different jobs that were proposed to me,” Truman wrote. One proposal, requiring only an hour of his time, guaranteed him a half million dollars.

“I turned down all of those offers,” Truman wrote. “I knew that they were not interested in hiring Harry Truman, the person, but what they wanted to hire was the former President of the United States. I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and the dignity of the office of the Presidency.”

DON BLUMENSHEIN

Leona Valley