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Article: Blair House Remembrance;Honoring Officer Who Died Protecting Truman
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- The Washington Post
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- November 2, 1990
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In the basement of Blair House, the president's elegant guest
quarters, is the rather plain day room of the Secret Service
Uniformed Division.
Yesterday in a ceremony it became something more: the Leslie W.
Coffelt Memorial Room, honoring the White House police private who on
Nov. 1, 1950, died saving the life of Harry S. Truman. By the door
is a plaque. Inside are a photograph of Coffelt, a scrapbook telling
his story and a frame holding his three medals and a letter from his
stepdaughter, Cora Jane Coffelt Miller, presenting the medals for
his heroism to his successors.
Forty years ago, on an Indian summer day much like yesterday,
President Truman was living in Blair House while ...