What we have understood is that Harry Truman was the first US President to own a Vulcain Cricket.
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| Original photo credit to ACME Newspictures, inc. (Public Domain). |
This is very much a case of "two things being true at once". In the picture above (dated February 2, 1951) you will note two future Presidents of the United States - Dwight David Eisenhower on the left, and Lyndon Baines Johnson on the right. While we cannot be certain of what is on Ike's left wrist, it appears to be a Vulcain Cricket that the Senator from Texas is wearing.
This was nearly two years before President Harry Truman would be presented a gold Vulcain Cricket by the White House News Photographers Association in 1953.
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| Original photo credit to ACME Newspictures, inc. (Public Domain). |
So where, when, how, and why did LBJ first come to own his first Vulcain Cricket? In truth? At this point nobody knows. Or to put it another way, those who know won't say. And those who will say?
They don't know.
My updated book, The Cricket and the Presidents - An Anecdotal History is available now.
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