Harry Truman excelled at piano lessons, and at a young age, he memorized numerous sonatas by Beethoven, Chopin, and Mozart. Years later, Truman jokingly said, “My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. … And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.”
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