David M. Eastis (CA '83), author of 7: The Magical, Amazing and Popular Number Seven, was kind enough to compile seven little-known facts about President Truman (along with a bonus seven-word quote):

• Harry S. Truman was ranked 7th most popular U.S. President in a Wall Street Journal poll in 2005.
• Senator Truman wrote Bess a letter in 1937 telling her about driving 70 miles and being so tired that he slept from 7 at night until 7 in the morning.
• The U.S.S. Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) was christened on the seventh day of September in 1996.
• It was on 7 May 1945 that Truman made an announcement about the plan of Germany’s surrender.
• Truman served as President 7 after Theodore Roosevelt and 7 prior to Ronald Reagan.
• Truman gave his seventh State of the Union address in 1950.
• The same year, he ordered the Seventh Fleet to Taiwan.
• 7-word quote from HST:  “America was built on courage, on imagination...”

David M. Eastis (CA ’83), an enthusiast and authority on the number 7, is author of 7: The Magical, Amazing and Popular Number Seven, the first-ever book which explores the magnetism that the vastly popular number 7 has exerted, from ancient cultures to the present day. For more information visit: http://www.theSevenBook.com/