Somebody Else?

Harry Truman got a medal and dropped a hint last week. For his "endeavors on behalf of the state of Israel," the National Committee for Labor Israel gathered in the White House rose garden to present him with the 1951 Histadrut Humanitarian Award. General Chairman Joseph Schlossberg, in reading the citation, hoped God would grant the President "many more years in the service of our country and humanity."

After the ceremony, the President was asked if he really felt fine in spite of all his troubles. Said Harry Truman: "Well, I'll let somebody else shoulder the troubles." Some political soothsayers took this sibylline pronouncement as a hint that Truman did not intend to run again.

Last week the President also: P: Signed a revision of the Taft-Hartley Act to permit union-shop contracts without an NLRB-supervised election. P:Laid the cornerstone for a Red Cross building in Washington and appealed for blood donations.

P: Welcomed 48 veterans of the Korean war, representing 19 nations, on the sixth anniversary of the U.N. and told them. "If there's anybody around the country that doesn't treat you right, why, you tell me!"

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