The New Yorker, April 7, 1951 P. 42
PROFILE of President Truman. Dr. Graham, the Presiden physician, comes from Kansas City, & Mr. Truman has known his father all his life, but had never met Dr. Wallace Graham until he went to the Potsdam Conferenc Dr. Graham had landed on Omaha Beach with a hospital unit, then he'd been with an airborne outfit in Holland, and got wounded, and at the time of the Potsdam conference was the head surgeon of a hospital at Stutgart. The President asked him to come to Potsdam, & asked if he'd like to come to Washington to take care of somebody. Dr. Graham said no thank you. He had had about a dozen years of training, and was dedicated to the alleviating the suffering of the greatest possibl number of people, and that he had a hospital full of men who had shed blood for their country; he couldn't leave them. Mr. Truman then asked if he knew who he was talking to, Dr. G. replied "Yes, sir. I'll obey orders, sir." So he stayed with the hospital until all the wounded men were discharged, and then he came to the White House.