TRUMAN HARRY S Typed Letter Signed as President to Emil Hurj

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SHARES HIS HAND-SHAKING TECHNIQUE TRUMAN, HARRY S. Typed Letter Signed, as President, to Emil Hurja, sharing techniques for avoiding fatigue when hand-shaking. 1 page, 4to, with integral blank, White House stationery; light soiling, faint paperclip stain, horizontal fold. (TFC) Washington, 1 February 1947

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". . . I have a technique of my own on the hand-shaking business. I never yet have had a sore arm from that sort of experience for the simple reason that I take em first. I have shaken hands with as many as five thousand people in one day and as many the next and still didn't have to go to bed.
"Mrs. Truman and I had twenty-five hundred people through the line last week at The White House and about all I got out of it was a case of laryngitis."
Emil Hurja (1892-1953) was known for revolutionizing political opinion polls, was instrumental in FDR's landslide re-election victory in 1936, and was featured on the cover of Time Magazine earlier that same year.