Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip (36 page)

Hangge, Pierce, 212

Hannibal, Missouri, 51–53

Harding, Warren, 130

Harriman, Averill, 26

Harry S. Truman Library

dedication of, 219

fundraising for, 25, 153–54

location plans of, 21, 24, 154, 219

photographs displayed at, 117

Truman burial sites at, 226

Truman’s office at, 220

Truman with schoolchildren at, 220

Hartnett, Francis, 61, 70

Hastings, Ed, 141

Heinman, Arthur, 63

Hellmuth, George, 213

Hellmuth, Yamasaki, and Leinweber, 213

Henderson, Fletcher, 197

highways, U.S.
See also
roads

development of, 89

interstate system of, 91, 96

numbering system of, 91

turnpikes, 170–71

Hilton, Conrad, 181–82

Hiroshima bomb, 163, 223

Hofamberg Inn, 214

Hoff, Horace, 61, 70

HOK architectural firm, 213

Holiday, Billie, 69

Holiday Inn, 64

Holloway, David P., 199

Hoover, Herbert

death of, 225

finances as ex-president, 11, 222

income as president, 222

Mayflower Hotel and, 114

political activities as ex-president, 140

residence as ex-presidential, 19, 143, 145–46

title as ex-president, 15

at Truman Library dedication, 219

on Truman’s bathtub accident, 224–25

on Truman’s house security, 20

Truman’s relationship with, 144–45, 219–20

Waldorf-Astoria grand opening, 151

Hoover, J. Edgar, 63, 114

Hoover Dam, 145

Householder, Vic, 217

House Un-American Activities Committee, 127

HSMHost, 214

Humphrey, Hubert, 128

Hunt, Leigh, 118

inaugurations

Eisenhower’s, 7–9, 12–14, 229

hat fashion and, 7, 58

televised, first, 157

Independence
(airplane), 188–89, 189, 190–91

Independence, Missouri, 19–22, 206

interstate highway system, 91, 96

Iran, 119–20

Islamic Revolution in, 120

J. Fred Muggs (chimpanzee), 157, 158

Jackson, Andrew, 224

Jackson, Edward, 194, 195

Jackson, Horatio Nelson, 87

Jackson, Richard, 196

Jacobson, Eddie, 9

Jefferson, Blind Lemon, 197

Jefferson, Thomas, 11, 86, 224

Jeffrey, Donald C., 115

Jemison, T. J., 46, 47

Jenner, William, 129

Johnson, Andrew, 129

Johnson, Lyndon B.

African Americans and road trip difficulties, 44

ambassador appointment by, 210

as Clifford home guest, 119

death of, 226

presidential pension bill of, 221

Secret Service protection of Trumans and, 223

at senate luncheon, 3, 125, 126, 128

Truman and, 125, 225, 226

Jones, Jim, 194

Julia (United Nations tour guide), 162–63, 164

Kaufman, Irving, 48

Kefauver, Albert, 106, 107,
108

Kehne, Carroll, 106–8, 108, 109–10

Kehne, Carroll, Jr., 107, 108, 110

Keller, K. T., 27–28, 29

Kennedy, Joe, 126

Kennedy, John F.

as Clifford home guest, 119

death and funeral of, 222

inauguration hat choice, 7

marriage of, 126

Mayflower Hotel and mistresses of, 114

presidential airplanes used by, 190

at senate luncheon, 3, 125, 126

Truman and, 125, 126

on Truman’s Nixon comment, 218

Kerwin, Glenn, 61

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 47

Kissinger, Henry, 153

Knowland, William, 128

Korea, 15, 80, 94, 113, 120, 136

Kovacs, Ernie, 155

Kristen (Rockville Pike homeowner), 117–18

Ku Klux Klan, 194–95, 199

Lambert Field, 212–13

Landry, Robert B., 175

Lauer, Matt, 158

Leahy, William, 41

LeBlanc, Fred, 46

Lefkowitz, Harry,
148

Legionnaires’ disease, 138

Leland Hotel, 198, 200–2

LeMay, Curtis, 191

Lewinsky, Monica, 115

Lewis, Meriwether, 85

libraries, presidential, 59–60, 213, 229.
See also
Harry S. Truman Library

Lincoln, Abraham

ex-presidents during presidency of, 228

papers of, 24

political allies of, 57–58

presidential library of, 59–60, 213

presidential ranking of, 224

Springfield statue of, 57

Lingle, Lester, Jr., 167

Lloyd, David, 115

Longwell, Daniel, 148

Love, Mary, 184–85

Lovett, Robert, 121

Lyons, Leonard, 149

MacArthur, Douglas, 143, 144, 145–46, 189

Machael, Thelma, 79, 82

Mack, C. J. “Neal,” 111–12

Madonna of the Trail statues, 50, 197–98

Marshall, George, 6, 7

Martin, Mary, 185

Mason, Charles, 95

Mason-Dixon Line, 95–96

Mayflower Hotel, 111, 112–13

McCarthy, Joseph, 6–7, 92–93, 129, 154

McCormack, John, 221

McCullough, David, 7

McGaffey, Ernest, 90

McGranery, James, 121

McKinney, Frank, 58, 76–79, 78, 80, 205, 209–10, 218

McKinney, Frank, Jr.,
78,
79

McKinney, Kathy, 206

McKinney, Margaret,
78,
79, 205, 218

McKinney Clark, Claire, 77,
78,
79, 204, 205, 207–8, 209

McKinney reception, 203–5

McLure House, 91, 92–94

McNamara, Robert, 37

Meeropol, Abel, 69

Meeropol, Anne, 69

memoirs of Truman

contracts and deadlines for, 25–26, 54

first volume, 218

second volume, 218

third book, 21, 109, 123, 125, 219

writing style, 218–19

Missouri, 43–44

Mitchell, Stephen, 78, 80

Monroe, James, 11, 86

Monroe, Marilyn, 149

Morosco Theater, 164

Morton, Jelly Roll, 197

Moses, Robert, 161

Mossadegh, Mohammed, 119–20

“Most Admired Men” lists, 224

Mr. Citizen
(Truman, H. S.), 21, 109, 123, 125

“Mr. President” title, 15

Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 46

Murphy, Charles, 79

Myers, Frances, 23

Myers, Henry, 187, 188

My Three Angels
(play), 164

Nagasaki bomb, 163, 223

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 45

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 37

National Museum of the United States Air Force, 190–91

National Old Trails Road Association, 49–50, 197

National Road (Route 40)

deterioration and improvement bills, 198–99

expansion of, 91

federal funding of, 86

gorges, 106

highest point, 96

hotels on, 178

Interstate 64 and, 215

road numbering system and, 90

towns on, 178

Naud, Tom, 158

Negro Mountain, 96–97

Nemesis (purported namesake of Negro Mountain), 96