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Now it can be told. A veteran Air Force One pilot, Ralph Albertazzie, recalls in People magazine that Harry Truman “had a running feud with Senator Robert Taft, the Ohio Republican. Every time Truman flew over that state he’d go to the bathroom, flush the toilet, and order Hank Myers, the pilot, to dump it.” Truman never consulted Congress about the secret bombing, but he destroyed the state’s Republican infrastructure. Not to mention Lake Erie.

“An angry” President Carter has told House leaders that if congressmen keep voting against his programs, he is going to use the full prestige and influence of the White House to retaliate. Several hundred congressmen immediately joined the anti-Carter ranks.

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Now it can be told. A veteran Air Force One pilot, Ralph Albertazzie, recalls in People magazine that Harry Truman “had a running feud with Senator Robert Taft, the Ohio Republican. Every time Truman flew over that state he’d go to the bathroom, flush the toilet, and order Hank Myers, the pilot, to dump it.” Truman never consulted Congress about the secret bombing, but he destroyed the state’s Republican infrastructure. Not to mention Lake Erie.

“An angry” President Carter has told House leaders that if congressmen keep voting against his programs, he is going to use the full prestige and influence of the White House to retaliate. Several hundred congressmen immediately joined the anti-Carter ranks.