Returning to the '' Times '' in 1946 as a Washington correspondent , he followed President Truman around the country " on a ski lift , train , airplane , seaplane , tender , destroyer , crash boat , bus , jeep , ferry , and by foot , " and wrote many major stories about landmark speeches and actions by Truman , including his 1948 State of the Union address , his introduction of the military draft , his multiple refusals to cut Marshall Plan funds , his June 1948 warning to the Soviets that they had the entire " free world " ranged against them , and his April 1949 assertion that he would not hesitate to use the atomic bomb again if necessary . Leviero was in the White House when two members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party tried to assassinate Truman at Blair House . Leviero ran across the street and wrote a report on the attempt . After Truman left the White House and returned to Missouri , Leviero visited him there and profiled him for the '' Times '' . " He has slipped back to the soil that nurtured him – which is not to say that he has slipped , " wrote Leviero . " H is mood is that of a prisoner released . He is carefree yet careful ... He is accessible . " When Truman turned 70 in May 1954 , Leviero visited him again , finding him busy working on his memoirs
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Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman
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