Even in the midst of the Korean War, Truman was still thinking wistfully about “Locksley Hall.” Riding in his limousine after an early morning walk with the author John Hersey in 1951, Truman took the folded piece of paper our of his wallet and let Hersey read it. “Notice the part about universal law,” said the president. “We're going to have that some day. I guess that's what I've really been working for ever since I first put that poetry in my pocket.”
Strobe Talbot, The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 210.
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