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Doug's avatar

Harry Truman as a stoic:

-grew up on a small farm in Missouri;

-he said “If you can’t stand the heat stay out of the kitchen”;

-when he and Beth left the White House in January 1953, he drove them back to Independence, Missouri by himself.

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Yes, and he used Stoicism, via Marcus Aurelius, to help him make big decisions.

Here's how he used it to choose the lesser evil: https://andrewperlot.substack.com/p/this-is-how-you-choose-the-lesser?utm_source=publication-search

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