Historian visits Dole Institute

The Dole Institute of Politics will play host to a free event Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. “Words to the Wise from Harry S. Truman,” will feature Neil Johnson, historian and interpreter. Johnson will impersonate President Truman.

Johnson will answer audience questions as if he were Truman.

“We’re guaranteed a lively question-and-answer session after Niel Johnson’s well-researched Truman persona takes over,” said Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute. “Obviously, it’s the closest we’ll ever get to conversing with such a historical figure.”

Johnson is regarded as a Truman expert because he was an archivist and oral historian at the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri and he authored “Power, Money and Women: Words to the Wise from Harry S. Truman.”

He will sign books at the end of the program.

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