" The day Harry and Bess moved out of the White House, he turned around at the door and waved good-bye to staff members. He had served as president for seven years, nine months, and eight days. He hesitated one last moment before leaving “the Great White Jail,” then repeated a joke he often told. He said, “You know, many times in my despair at the White House, I’ve always wondered whether the nation and the world would have been much better off if Harry Truman, instead of being President of the United States, had played piano at a bawdy house.” “Then,” recalled a photographer who was there that day, “he turned around and left. "

― , The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World