MP2002-349 Former President Truman Describes Dining Alone While President

In this series of Screen Gems outtake, former president Harry S. Truman, seated by Bess Truman, says “When you live in the White House, you live pretty high and I’ll try to describe it to you.” He then reads his diary entry of November 1, 1949, about dining alone at Blair House. The reading is interspersed a couple of times with scenes of butlers, Fields and Barnett, in the White House. Mrs. Truman laughs several times during the reading. He ends by saying “. . . if you don’t believe I was getting service, you never saw it.”

This item is from the Screen Gems Collection. The Screen Gems Collection consists of outtakes created during the production of the film series, "Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman" which aired on television in 1964 and 1965. The copyright to this item is unclear. Portions that were shot in the White House have an unknown provenance and may be subject to copyright. The portions of Mr. Truman reading next to Bess Truman are in the public domain. Please credit: Screen Gems Collection, Harry S. Truman Library.

This film is part of the Motion Picture series at the Truman Library. Please see this link for the National Archives Catalog record: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/595162