Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip (35 page)

Bourbon, Illinois, 76

Bouvier, Jacqueline Lee, 126

Boyle, Bill, 77

BP (British Petroleum), 120

Brannan, Charles, 121

Brazel, Mac, 174

Brecht, Raymond C., 136

Breckinridge, John C., 58

Bridgestone/Firestone, 67, 68

Brinkley, Douglas, 231

British Petroleum (BP), 120

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka,
45

Brumidi, Constantino, 126

Bud’s Golden Cream, 51–53

Burleson, Albert S., 130

Bush, George H. W., 119, 229

Bush, George W., 228, 230–31

Butler, John Marshall, 129

Byrnes, Bill, 105

Byrnes, Elizabeth, 105–6

Calderon, Felipe, 152

Campbell, James A., 5

Camp David, 139

Cancellare, Frank, 212

Carnegie, Andrew, 130

Caro, Robert A., 125

Carter, Jimmy, 122–25,
124,
229

Caterpillar (company), 67

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 119–20

Challenge to Liberty, The
(Hoover, H.), 140

Chapman, Oscar L., 121

Chodorov, Jerome, 154

Chrysler automobiles, 27–33,
28,
39–40, 219, 233–38,
237

Churchill, Winston, 114, 142, 218

Cincinnatus (Roman general), 35

civil rights, 45–46, 134, 223

Clark, Alex, 204, 205

Clark, J. Murray, 207, 208–9

Clark, Janet, 208

Clark, Jim, 207–8

Clark, William, 85

Clay, Henry, 91

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 54.
See also
Twain, Mark

Cleveland, Grover, 129–30

Clifford, Clark, 116–17, 119

Clifford, Marny, 117, 119

Clifford, Randall, 117

Clifford home.
See
Rockville Pike farmhouse

Clinton, Bill, 19, 115, 124, 227–30

Clinton, Hillary, 227–28

Cocklin, Howard, 176

Coke bottles, 108,
108,
110,
110

Cole, Charles “Curly,” 182

Columbine II
(airplane), 189

Comden, Betty, 154

commercialization of presidency, 25, 228

communism

criticism of Truman and, 48, 139

McCarthy and, 5, 6, 92–93

Nixon, R., and, 127–28

Connelly, Matthew

on Stevenson campaign, 58, 59, 79

Truman’s last day as president, 13

walking with Truman, 146, 147

Conway, Rose, 23

Coolidge, Calvin, 114, 140

Cooper, D. B., 212

Country House restaurant, 168–69

Creason, Bob, 234, 236–37

Creason, Carey, 233–38

Creason, Gladys, 233–34

Crocker, Sewell K., 87

Crusade in Europe
(Eisenhower), 26

Cumberland Narrows, 106

Cushing, Richard J., 161

Daniel, Clifton, 219

Daniel, Margaret Truman.
See
Truman Daniel, Margaret

Decatur, Illinois, 60–61, 65–68, 69–70

Decatur, Stephen, 67

Decatur Adult Transition Center, 65–67

defense policies, 34, 136–37, 139

Democratic National Committee and Party, 76–77

Democratic National Convention (1948), 133

Democratic National Convention (1960), 126

Dennison, Robert, 222

Deshler (hotel), 181–85

Desmond, Frank, 93

Dewey, Thomas E., 10, 154

Diamond, Neil, 158–59

Dickinson, Angie, 114

Dillinger, John, 63

Dixie Clipper
(airplane), 186

Dixiecrats, 134

Dixon, George, 132

Dixon, Jeremiah, 95

Douglas, Stephen A., 57–58

Dulles, Allen W., 120

Eagleton, Thomas, 226

Edison, Thomas, 196

Eisenhower, Dwight D. “Ike”

death of, 226

as father of interstate highway system, 91

inauguration and speech, 7–9, 12–13, 229

Iranian coup, 120

at Kennedy funeral, 222

presidential airplanes of, 189

presidential campaign of, 6–7, 58–59

presidential pension legislation signed by, 221

at presidential retreat, 139

Rosenberg appeal, 48, 55

Truman and, 33–34, 222

Eisenhower, Mamie, 6, 189, 222

Elizabeth, Queen, 114

Ellington, Duke, 197

Empire State Building, 147, 151

espionage, 47–48, 55, 68–69

Exner, Judith, 114

ex-presidents.
See also specific names of ex-presidents

addressing Senate, 129

bonding of, 225, 229

careers of, 11, 227–28, 229

commercialization of presidency, refusal of, 25, 228

government paid expenses of, 230

group photographs of, 229

income of, 3, 11, 227–28

longest tenure, 225

office expenses (2008) of, 229

partisan politics and media technology, 139–40

pensions for, 129–30, 221–22, 229–30

Secret Service protection of, 223

Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), 186

Famine Emergency Committee, 144–45

Federal-Aid Highway Act, 91

federal civil service system, 5

federal highway policies, 86

Felker, Grace, 100

Ferdinand Magellan
(train), 14, 59, 211–12

FHA (Future Homemakers of America), 183–84, 185–86

Field, Marshall, III, 153

Fields, Joseph, 154

Fike, Stanley, 35–36, 149

Fillmore, Millard, 24

Firestone Tires, 67

first ladies.
See also specific names of first ladies

longest-lived, 226

Secret Service protection of, 223

widow pensions, 130

Fleming, Jack, 157

Flying White House, The
(terHorst and Albertazzie), 187

Flynn, Edward J., 9–10

Ford, Gerald, 19, 113, 228, 229

Ford automobiles,
32,
37, 89

Former Presidents Act, 221

Fort Necessity, 95

Frankfurter, Felix, 45

French and Indian War, 95

Frostburg, Maryland, 99–105

Future Homemakers of America (FHA), 183–84, 185–86

Gallagher, Tom, 167

Gallup Poll, 224

Garfield, James, 5

Garroway, Dave, 156, 158

Gasper, Harry, 204

Gates, George Porterfield, 20

Gates-Wallace House, 20–21

General Electric, 67

Gennett, Henry, 196

Gennett Records, 196–97, 200,
200

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(film), 149

Gentry, Sue, 42

George Washington Hotel Company, 178, 179

Goldwater, Barry, 191

Grandview, Missouri (Truman farm)

as Truman Library location, 21, 24, 154, 219

Johnson, Lyndon B., and public library donation, 125

sale of Truman farm, 220

Truman’s farming career in, 76

Grant, Ulysses S., 11, 54, 129

Great Depression, 90, 144, 151

Green, Adolph, 154

Greenglass, David, 47

Gromyko, Andrei, 159

Grover, Wayne, 59

Grove’s (restaurant), 69–70, 72–73

Guide to the National Road, A
(Raitz), 90

Guiteau, Charles, 5

Gulf station at Frederick, Maryland, 106–10,
108, 110

Hais, Alan, 30–33

Hall, Leonard W., 139

Hammarskjold, Dag, 162