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Just like Harry S Truman "Since the S did not stand for a name, Harry didn't use a period after it for most of his life."

https://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/key-west/president-tr...

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Similarly Oppenheimer, of the Manhattan project

He thought assuming that leading J made him seem more posh and WASPy

Interesting story, but, unfortunately, it's not true. Wiki gives his full name as "Julius Robert Oppenheimer." Julius was apparently his father's name as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer

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