Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip (38 page)

Toben, Sylvester “Bud,” 50–53

Toben, Toni, 51

Tobin, Maurice J., 121

Today
(television show), 3, 156–57, 158

Tolson, Clyde, 114

traffic regulations, 82

traffic-safety programs, 82–83

train cars, presidential, 14–16, 59, 211–12

Trayser, George M., 196

Tri-Manor (motel), 67, 68

Trohan, Walter, 15, 224

Truman, Anderson Shipp, 20

Truman, Bess (Elizabeth Virginia Wallace)

air travel and, 188–89

daily routines, 23

death and burial, 226

description, 184, 185

driving restrictions imposed by, 35, 42

Eisenhower’s inauguration and, 7–9, 13–14

family home of, 20–21 as first lady, 81–82

with future husband in automobile,
27

on happy marriage secrets, 204

with husband and daughter,
8

with husband and McKinney family,
78

with husband at home,
221

with husband in automobile,
166

with husband on road trip,
43

on husband’s vice president candidacy, 10

later years, 226

marriage of, 149–50, 219

McKinney porch press conference, 81, 82

nicknames of, 8

on Secret Service protection, 223

sports, favorite, 21, 226

train ride to Missouri, 14–16

Women’s National Democratic Club tea, 121

Truman, Harrison, 88–89

Truman, Harry S.

alcohol consumption, 155–56

automobiles of, 26–30,
27, 28, 32,
40,
40,
219

book signing rituals started by, 123

at Bud’s Golden Cream,
52

Bush, George W., compared to, 230–31

character of, 28, 70–71, 95

childhood of, 54

as civil rights supporter, 44–45

on coping with mobs, 116

daily routine as ex-president, 22–24, 25

on daughter’s husband, 219

death and burial, 226

in Decatur, Illinois,
62

early political career, 9–10

education of, 11

Eisenhower’s inauguration and, 5–6, 7–9, 12–13

employment as ex-president, 23–24

on ex-president titles, 15

family of, 11, 44, 50

finances as ex-president, 3, 12, 18, 25

food preferences, 82

on French roads, 49

health and exercise routines, 10–11,
13, 22,
22–23

honorary degrees of, 218

later years, 223–25, 226

love of driving, 40–41

love of packing for trips, 39

marriage of, 149–50, 219

at Mayflower Hotel,
112

on memorials to living, 24

middle initial of, 20

in New York with cabbies,
148

on 1952 election, 206

with Nixon, R.,
127

political activities as ex-president, 218

as president, 5–6, 10, 12, 15, 224

president-to-citizen transition, 35, 217

on raising daughters, 204

reading preferences, 54

reelection rumors, 113

religion of, 147

at Reserve Officers Association convention,
135

residence of, 20–21

St. Louis post-election photographs, 211–12

train ride to Missouri, 14–16

with wife and daughter,
8

with wife and daughter in automobile,
166

with wife and McKinney family,
78

with wife at home,
221

with wife on road trip,
43

Truman, John, 49

Truman, Martha (mother), 44, 88–89, 109

Truman, Vivian, 219

Truman Corners, 220

Truman Daniel, Margaret

birth of, 20

at Eisenhower’s inauguration, 7

father’s comments about, 81, 143

at Kennedy funeral, 222

marriage of, 219

as New York resident and tour guide, 143

nicknames, 8

with parents,
8, 166

on parents’ residential plans, 121

presidential airplane flights, 188

on presidents and bonding, 225

recollections of, 33, 39, 42, 125, 223

as unofficial road trip press secretary, 91–92, 111

Women’s National Democratic Club tea, 121

Truman Speaks
(Truman, H. S.), 220

Twain, Mark, 11, 54

21 Club, 154

Tyler, John, 11

United Defense League (UDL), 46

United Nations, 159–64

Updegrove, Mark K., 228

Van Buren, Martin, 11, 198–99

Veatch, Tom, 49

Vinson, Fred, 8, 45, 117

Waldorf-Astoria, 141–42, 143–44, 145–46, 150–52

Wallace, Elizabeth Virginia.
See
Truman, Bess

Wallace, Henry, 9

Wallace, Madge Gates, 20, 149

Wal-Mart, 104–5

Ward, Howard, 100–101

Warren, Earl, 45

Washington, George, 95, 177, 224

Washington, Pennsylvania, 177–78

Washington National Airport, 175–76

Werve, Helen, 72–73 Westwood, Mike, 22, 223 Wheeling, West Virginia, 91–94 Whiskey Rebellion, 177–78

Whitehouse, Joseph, 85

Whittaker, Reed, 236

Wilcox, George, 174

Williams, Dent, 94–95

Williams, Gene, 44

Willkie, Wendell, 209

Wilson, Edith Bolling, 121

Wilson, Kemmons, 63–64

Wilson, Lowell, 193, 197

Wilson, Ora, 193, 197

Wilson, Woodrow, 19, 121, 224

Wonderful Town
(musical comedy), 154–55, 156

Woodward, Sara, 218

Woodward, Stanley, 218

World Trade Center, 213

World War II, 90, 163

Wright, Wilbur, 194

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 186, 190–91

Yamasaki, Minoru, 213

Year of Decisions
(Truman, H. S.), 218

Years of Trial and Hope
(Truman, H. S.), 218

Young, Solomon, 20, 86–87

Youngblood, Rosita, 96–97

Zacko, Joe, 176

Zearing, Herbert, 167

Zeckendorf, William, Sr., 161

Zerfowski, Floyd, 71–72, 73

Ziegner, Ed, 205

An Excerpt from Matthew Algeo’s New Book,
The President Is a Sick Man

O
N
F
RIDAY
, J
UNE
30, 1893, President Cleveland awoke around seven and read the morning papers over his usual breakfast of beefsteak and eggs. The headlines must have troubled him as greatly as the rough spot on the roof of his mouth. They told of more failed banks, more closed mines, more foreclosed farms, and more bankrupt businesses. Wheat prices were at an all-time low: seventy cents a bushel. Interest rates on Wall Street were at an all-time high: 74 percent. Stocks were plummeting accordingly.

But amid the tales of financial disaster in the papers that morning were stories reflecting the almost naïve optimism of what has come to be called the Gilded Age. Arctic explorer Robert Peary was on his way to Greenland for the second time. The massive engines of the navy’s newest battleship, the
Maine,
were successfully tested at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. At the World’s Fair in Chicago, final preparations were underway for the grandest Fourth of July celebration ever. And excited crowds were packing National League ballparks, eager to see the results of the new, longer distance between the pitcher’s mound and home plate: sixty feet, six inches. They rarely went home disappointed. Batting averages rose faster than interest rates.