This famous sign was on the desk of Harry Truman during his presidency in the White House. It was made at the federal reformatory in El Reno, Oklahoma. That would put it on Route 66. Fred M. Canfil, then a US marshal from the Western District of Missouri and a Truman friend, saw a similar sign while visiting and asked the warden if a sign like it could be made for the president.
It was made and then shipped to the president on October 2, 1945. The 2 and a half-inch X 13-inch sign is mounted on a walnut base. It has the words, "I'm from Missouri" on the other side.
The saying comes from a slavery expression, "Pass the Buck" meaning to pass responsibility on to someone else.
That Is One Famous Sign. --Cooter
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