cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes fortunes2

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Tue Jun 1 00:28:59 PDT 2004


Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>   * Harry Truman had no actual middle name. The initial "S" was
>   added to his name to make him appear more statesmanlike. Therefore
>   it's not usually punctuated.

Wrong.  His middle name is S because his parents wanted to honor both
his grandfathers (whose first names both began with S) without
favoring one over the other.  Truman himself wrote his name with a
period, and so does the Truman library.

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/speriod.htm

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