Truman left the proceedings forty minutes before it was over, catching a ride with a friend back to the Senate building. When he got to his office (he chose to keep the same one, suite 240, which he had recently moved into), a custodian was painting a new sign on the door: THE VICE PRESIDENT. He took the opportunity to call his mother. “Now you behave yourself,” Mamma Truman told him. With correspondence piled on his desk, Truman began his new job—what little of it there was.
