Truman's name, notably the Department of State's documentary series Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, the Department of the Army's United States Army in World War II and two major publications of the Office of the Federal Register, Public Papers of the President - Harry S.

Authoritative publications produced by the Government Printing Office consistently use the period in Mr. Truman Library) thus seeming to contradict themselves. Authors choosing to omit the period in their texts must still use it when citing the names of organizations that employ the period in their legal titles (e.g. Most published works using the name Harry S.

Government Printing Office Style Manual states that the period should be used after the 'S' in Harry S. According to The Chicago Manual of Style all initials given with a name should 'for convenience and consistency' be followed by a period even if they are not abbreviations of names. Several widely recognized style manuals provide guidance in favor of using the period. He was later heard to say that the use of the period dated after 1962 as well as before. In explanation he said that the 'S' did not stand for any name but was a compromise between the names of his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young. Truman apparently initiated the 'period' controversy in 1962 when, perhaps in jest, he told newspapermen that the period should be omitted.

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