Truman (196 page)

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Authors: David McCullough

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Political Profiles: The Truman Years.
New York: Facts on File, 1978.

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The American Presidents. Special Report.
New York: Time, Inc., 1976.

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Washington White House Historical Association with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society, 1979.

Young, Brigadier Peter, ed.
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Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Harry S. Truman Library • Jackson County Historical Society • Joseph C. Pruett • Kansas City
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• Library of Congress • National Archives • United States Senate Historical Office • Washington
Star

Index

Acheson, Alice

Acheson, Dean

atomic bomb and

attacks on

background of

China and

Churchill and

death of

defense spending and

Europe and

farewell luncheon for Trumans given by

Greece and

Hiss and

on HST

HST’s correspondence with

HST’s library and

HST’s memoirs and

and HST’s remarks on Kennedy and civil rights

HST’s retirement and

HST’s Yale visit and

influence of

Kennedy and

Korean War and

MacArthur and

McCarthy’s attacks on

on Marshall

Marshall Plan and

NATO and

Nixon’s attack on

NSC-68 report and

physical appearance of

as Secretary of State

Truman Doctrine and

as Under Secretary of State

on Z Committee

Acheson, Mary

ADA (Americans for Democratic Action)

Adam, John

Adams, Abigail

Adams, John

Adams, John Quincy

Adams, Sherman

Adenauer, Konrad

Adonis, Joe

AEC,
see
Atomic Energy Commission, U.S.

Age of Jackson, The
(Schlesinger)

Agricultural Adjustment Act (1938)

Aiken, George

aircraft production

Air Force, U.S.

Alamogordo, atomic tests at

Alaska

Albright, Robert C.

Alcoa (Aluminum Company of America)

Alemán, Miguel

Allen, Charlie

Allen, Fred

Allen, George E.

Allen, Robert S.

Alsop, Joseph

Alsop, Stewart

Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa)

aluminum production

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America

America First movement

American Federation of Labor

American Jewish Congress

American Legion

American Lithofold Corporation

American Magazine

American Mercury

“American Relations with the Soviet Union” (Clifford and Elsey)

Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)

American Weekly

American Zionist Emergency Council

Anami, Korechika

Anderson, “Bloody Bill,”

Anderson, Clinton

Anderson, Reuben

Anderson, Vernice

Andrew Jackson
(James)

Andrews, Bert

anti-trust laws

Arabs, Palestinian

armed forces,
see
military

Armory Show of 1913

Army contracts,
see
defense spending

Arnold, Henry H. “Hap,”

art, HST’s views on

Arthur, Chester A.

Arvey, Jake

Atlanta
Constitution

Atlanta
Journal

Atlantic Charter

atomic bomb, atomic energy

Acheson and

Alamogordo test of

in attacks on Japan

Bikini tests of

Forrestal and

hydrogen,
see
hydrogen bomb

Interim Committee on

Korean War and

Manhattan Project and

military vs. civilian custody of

morality of

as nonmilitary weapon

Soviet Union and

Atomic Energy Commission, U.N.

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), U.S.

Lilienthal as head of

superbomb and

Attlee, Clement

Atwell, Lester

Audubon, John James

Aurthur, Robert Alan

Austin, Warren

Australia

Austria

automobile industry

auto workers’ strike (1946)

Axtell, Enos

Ayers, Eben

Vaughan and

Aylward, James P.

Azerbaijan

B-26 bomber

B-29 bomber:

in Berlin Airlift

in fire bombing of Japan

Babcock, Gaylon

Bacall, Lauren

Baker, Russell

Baldwin, Hanson

Balfour, Arthur, Lord

Balfour Declaration

Balkan states

Ball, George

Ball, Joseph H.

Baltic provinces

Baltimore
Sun

B. Altman & Company

Bankhead, Tallulah

Bankhead, William B.

Banning, Mr. and Mrs. William

“Barbara Frietchie” (Whittier)

Bard, Ralph A.

Barkley, Alben

death of

HST as seen by

HST’s Senate reelection and

as majority leader

prop-stop campaign of

as vice-presidential candidate (1944)

as vice-presidential candidate (1948)

Barnes, James M.

Barr, David

Barr, Robert

Barry, Frank

Barrymore, Ethel

Bartky, Walter

Baruch, Bernard

Bataan

Battery D (2nd Battalion, 129th Field Artillery)

Battle, Lucius

Battle of Britain

Baughman, U.E.

Baydur, Huseyin Ragip

Bay of Pigs

Bean, Louis

Beatty, Earl David

Beaverbrook, William Aitken, Lord

Bechtel, Stephen

Belair, Felix, Jr.

Bell, Art

Bell, Elliott

Bell, Jasper

Benedict XV, Pope

Bennett, David A.

Benny, Jack

Bentley, Elizabeth

Benton, Thomas Hart (artist)

Benton, Thomas Hart (senator)

Berenson, Bernard

Berenstein, David

Bergen, Edgar

Berger, Meyer

Bergheim, Myrtle

Bergin, Thomas G.

Beria, Lavrenti

Berlin

Berlin, Irving

Berlin crisis

airlift in

turn of tide in

Vinson mission and

Bernadotte, Folke

Bernstein, Carl

Bernstein, Leonard

Berry, Lucian D.

Best Years of Our Lives, The

Bevin, Ernest

Bidault, Georges

Biddle, Francis

Biffle, Les

Bikini

Bingham, George Caleb

Binnagio, Charles

Birdzell, Donald

Black, Hugo L

Blackmore, Dwight

blacks

Byrnes and

murders of

Roosevelt and

as voters

see
also civil rights; racial prejudice

Blair, Frank

Blair House

Blandy, William

Blaustein, Jacob

Blitz, Samuel

Block, Herb

Boeing

Boettiger, Anna Roosevelt

Boettiger, John

Bogart, Humphrey

Boggs, Lilburn W.

Boggs, Lindy

Bohlen, Charles “Chip,”

on Marshall

at Potsdam

Bolich, Daniel A.

Bonesteel, Charles

Boone, Daniel

Boone, Daniel Morgan

Borah, William E.

Border War

Boring, Floyd M.

Boston
Globe

Boston
Post

Bourgholtzer, Frank

Bowles, Chester

Bowman, Frederick

Boyd, William

Boyle, Clara

Boyle, William

accusations against

background and character of

resignation of

Bradley, John H.

Bradley, Omar

atomic bomb and

Berlin crisis and

Korean War and

MacArthur and

Brandeis, Louis D.

Brandeis, Mrs. Louis D.

Brandt, Raymond

Brewster, O. C

Brewster, Owen

Brian, Donald

Brice, George

Bricker, John W.

Bridges, Styles

Brooks, Curley

Brooks, Philip C

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Brotherhood

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen

Browder, Earl

Brown, John

Brown, John Mason

Brown, Matilda D. “Tillie,”

Brownell, Herbert, Jr.

Bryan, William Jennings

Bryant, Paul

Buchenwald

Buck, Pearl S.

Bud Billiken Day

budget, national

Bulgaria

Bulger, Miles

Bundschu, Henry

Bunnelle, Robert

Burke, Ken

Burns, James MacGregor

Burrus, Florence

Burrus, Rufus

Burton, Harold H.

Busch, Noel F.

Bush, Vannevar

Business Week

Butler, Hugh

Butterfield, Roger

Buxton, Ethel Lee

Byrd, Harry Flood

Byrnes, James

atomic bomb and

blacks and

defense spending and

HST’s difficulties with

HST’s Senate reelection and

on Interim Committee on S-1

Japan and

at Potsdam

railway strike and

resignation of

Resolution 71 and

as Secretary of State

Soviet Union and

On Stalin

Truman Committee and

as vice-presidential candidate

Wallace’s New York speech and

Cadogan, Alexander

Cahn, Albert

California, University of

California, University of, at Berkeley

California and Oregon Trail, The
(Parkman)

Callas, Maria

Call Me Madam

Campbell, William J.

Canfil, Fred

at Potsdam

Canin, Stuart

Cannon, Pat

Canol Project

Capehart, Homer

Capone, Al

Capra, Frank

Carnegie-Illinois Steel

Carpenter, Donald F.

Carr, Albert Z.

Carter, Jimmy

Carter, John Franklin

Carthage Hydrocel, Inc.

Casablanca Conference (1943)

Cather, Willa

Catholics

Catledge, Turner

Caudle, T. Lamar

CCC (Commodity Credit Corporation)

Celler, Emanuel

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Central Intelligence Group

“Certain Aspects of the European Recovery Problem from the United States Standpoint” (Kennan Report)

Chambers, Whittaker

Changing Times

Chapman, Oscar

Charles, Prince of Wales

Chase, Salmon P.

Chavez, Dennis

Chiang Kai-shek

MacArthur and

Chiang Kai-shek, Madame

Chicago
Sun

Chicago
Sun-Times

Chicago
Tribune

child care

Childs, Marquis

Chiles, Elijah

Chiles, Henry

Chiles, James J. “Jim Crow” (uncle)

Chiles, Morton, Jr.

Chiles, Sarah Ann “Sallie” Young (aunt)

Chiles, Sol (cousin)

China

civil war in

Marshall and

Soviet Union and

see also
Formosa; Manchuria

China, People’s Republic of:

inauguration of

Korean War and

China Lobby

China White Paper

Chinese Communists

see also
China, People’s Republic of

Chinese Nationalists (Kuomintang)

see also
Chiang Kai-shek; China; Formosa

“Chorus from Ajax” (Sophocles)

Chou En-lai

Christian Science Monitor

Christina’s World
(Wyeth)

Chrysler

Churchill, Clementine

Churchill, Jenny Jerome

Churchill, Mary

Churchill, Sarah

Churchill, Winston

Acheson and

background of

Berlin tour of

death of

election defeat of

HST as seen by

HST on initial meeting with

HST’s admiration of

HST’s Berlin crisis letter to

“iron curtain” speech of

map room of

on Marshall

at Potsdam

in return to office

Roosevelt and

Stalin and

World War II history written by

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

see
Mormons

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

Cieplinski, Michel

Cincinnatus

Citizens Security

Civil Aeronautics Act (1938)

civil rights

anti-lynching legislation and

black vote and

HST’s Harlem speech on

HST’s Lincoln Memorial address on

HST’s private vs. public views on

HST’s senatorial reelection campaign and

sit-ins and marches for

southern Democrats and

“Turnip” congressional session and

Civil Rights Commission

civil service

Civil Service Commission

Civil War, U.S.

Lincoln’s problems with McClellan in

Clark, Bennett Champ

HST attacked by

as HST’s choice for President

Milligan supported by

in World War I

Clark, Champ

Clark, John L

Clark, Tom

Clay, Lucius D.

Clayton, William L.

Cleveland, Grover

Clevenger, Cliff

Clifford, Clark

background of

on Bess Truman

character and appearance of

coal strike and

government post left by

on HST

as HST’s legal counsel

HST’s presidential reelection campaign and

on loyalty issue

Marshall Plan and

as naval aide

Palestine issue and

preparation in work of

report on U.S.-Soviet relations by Elsey and

Clifton, Chester

Clinton, J. H.

coal mines

coal strike (1946)

Coates, Willa

Cochran, John J. “Jack,”

Coffelt, Leslie

coffinmakers’ strike (1946)

Cohen, Ben

Cold War:

Acheson’s view of

Berlin Airlift and

Churchill’s “iron curtain” speech and

Clifford-Elsey Report and

containment policy and

end of

HST’s view of

Kennan’s “Long Telegram” and

as 1948 election issue

origins of

Truman Doctrine and,
see
Truman Doctrine

U.S. atomic bomb monopoly ended in

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