Truman (196 page)
Authors: David McCullough
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Presidents & Heads of State, #Political, #Historical
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HOTOGRAPHIC
A
RCHIVAL
S
OURCES
Harry S. Truman Library • Jackson County Historical Society • Joseph C. Pruett • Kansas City
Star
• Library of Congress • National Archives • United States Senate Historical Office • Washington
Star
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