Fudging of accounts and cutting corners

Kiran Bedi's misdemeanor tells loudly that our parameters of honesty and probity in public life have taken a big hit.

Anna and his team will do well to read Harry Truman


Measure of Truman'greatness can be gauged from what he did after he left the White House.

The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Missouri . His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives here.

He was paying for his stamps and personally licking them. As President he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.

When his successor Eisenhower became president, Harry and his wife Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.

When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."

Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."



Bhartendu Sood