甘木@欅道居士

Two months before he became president, Harry Truman got in big trouble with his wife over this photo. February 10, 1945. Truman was vice president. He stopped by the National Press Club canteen, where hundreds of servicemen were being entertained and sat down at the upright piano to play. Actress Lauren Bacall was there too. She was 20 and had just hit it big in To Have and Have Not. Her press agent told her to climb on top of the piano. The photographers took it from there. Truman looked like he was having a great time but Bess Truman certainly did not. She told him he should not play piano in public anymore. Their grandson later admitted all the women in the family hated the photo. Two months after it was taken, Truman was president. Bacall married Humphrey Bogart that spring. The piano is still at the Press Club, in a room now called the Truman Lounge.