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Authors: David McCullough

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in Wallace’s campaign

see also
Soviet Union

Cold War,
The (Lippmann)

Colgan, Emma Truman (aunt)

Collado, Emilio

Collazo, Oscar

Collier’s

Collins, Joe

Collins, Lawton

Combs, Freda

Commager, Henry Steele

Commerce of the Prairies
(Gregg)

Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)

Communists, communism

in China

civil rights movement and

Eisenhower on

fear of infiltration by

Forrestal and

in Greece

HST on democracy vs.

HST’s Loyalty Program and

J. Edgar Hoover’s warnings about

in Korea
see also
Korean War

McCarthy’s charges and

Marshall’s speech and

Nazism compared with

Progressive Party and

Taft-Hartley Act and

see also
House Un-American Activities Committee

Community Savings and Loan Association of Independence

Compton, Arthur H.

Compton, James V.

Compton, Karl T.

Conant, James Bryant

Confederate Army

Congress, U.S.:

aid to Turkey and Greece approved by

civil rights messages delivered to

“do-nothing” description of

farm support and

House committees of,
see
House Un-American Activities Committee; House Ways and Means Committee

HST’s presidential “honeymoon” with

Joint Committee on Atomic Energy

Korean War and

Lilienthal confirmation and

Marshall confirmation and

national health insurance proposals and

1946 Republican electoral victories and

1950 Republican electoral victories and

postwar domestic program and

presidential papers and

presidential pensions and

Senate committees of,
see
Senate, U.S.

southern Democrats in

special “Turnip” session of

Truman Doctrine speech delivered to

Congressional Record,

Conkling, Roscoe

Connally, Tom

Connelly, Matthew J

Constitution, Twenty-second Amendment to

consumer credit

containment policy

Conway, Rose

Cooke, Alistair

Coolidge, Calvin

Cooper, Gary

Cooper, James Fenimore

Copeland, Royal

Corcoran, Thomas “Tommy the Cork,”

Costello, Frank

Council of Foreign Ministers

Cowherd, William S

Cox, Eugene

Cox, James

Crawford, Kenneth G

Crim, Howell

Crisp, Colonel

Cronkite, Walter

Crump, E. H. “Boss Ed,”

Crusade in Europe
(Eisenhower)

Cuba

Culbertson, Jerry

Curley, James Michael

Curtiss-Wright

Cutting, Bronson

Czechoslovakia

coup in

Dahlberg, Edward

Dailey, David

Daily Telegraph
(London)

Danford, Robert M

Daniel, Clifton Truman (grandson)

Daniel, Elbert Clifton, Jr. (son-in-law)

Daniel, Elbert Clifton, Sr

Daniel, Harrison (grandson)

Daniel, Hawthorne

Daniel, Mary Margaret “Margie” Truman (daughter)

attempted kidnapping of

birth of

character and appearance of

childhood of

children of

Constitution Hall concert of

diary of

engagement and marriage of

first full-length concert appearance of

health of

on her grandmother

at Hollywood Bowl

HST’s biography written by

HST’s death and

Daniel, Mary Margaret “Margie” Truman (daughter)

HST’s letters to

HST’s presidency and

HST’s reelection campaign and

HST’s relationship with

Hume’s review of

Independence summers of

piano of

plays put on by

radio debut of

Roosevelt’s death and

singing career of

White House quarters of

Daniel, Thomas (grandson)

Daniel, William Wallace (grandson)

Daniell, Raymond

Daniels, Jonathan

Daniels, Josephus

Daughters of the American Revolution

David, Daniel H

David Copperfield
(Dickens)

Davidson, Joseph

Davies, Joseph E

Davis, James J

Davis, John W

Davis, Manvel

Dawson, Donald

Dean, William F

Deane, John R

“deep freezers,”

Defense Department, U.S.

see also
War Department, U.S.

Defense Plants Corporation (DPC)

defense spending

Byrnes and

contracts in
see also
Truman Committee

Forrestal and

Korean War and

Delaney, Denis W

Delano, Laura

democracy, HST on communism vs

Democratic National Committee

Democratic National Conventions:

of 1944

of 1948

of 1952

of 1956

of 1960

Democratic Party

Dixiecrat split in

Jewish votes and

Progressive Party and

southern faction of

see also
election of 1948; elections;
specific individuals

Denver
Post,

Depression, Great

Deschler, Lewis

Des Moines
Register,

Des Moines
Register and Tribune,

Detroit
Free Press,

Detroit Symphony

Detroit
Times,

Dewey, Frances

Dewey, John

Dewey, Thomas E

background of

character and appearance of

as district attorney

film on

as governor

HST compared with

Lippmann and

presidential campaign of (1944)

presidential campaign of (1948)

as presidential candidate

presidential election defeat of (1948)

speeches of

train incident and

Dewey, Tom, Jr.

Diaz, Armando

Dickens, Charles

Dieterich, William H.

Dill, John

Dillard, Harrison

Dillinger, John

Dirksen, Everett

Displaced Persons Act (1948)

Dixiecrats

Dixon, Frank M.

Doherty, Jim

dollar-a-year men

Doniphan, Alexander

Donnelly, Eugene

Donnelly, Nell

Donovan, Robert

Don Quixote
(Cervantes)

Doohan, John

Doubleday

Dougherty, Charles, Sr

Douglas, Helen Gahagan

Douglas, Paul

Douglas, William O

Downs, Joseph

DPC (Defense Plants Corporation)

draft, military

railway strike and

Drescher, George

Drury, Allen

Dryden, Mildred

Dubinsky, David

Duchamp, Marcel

Dulles, John Foster

Dun, Angus

Duncan, Dick

Dunham, Walter L

Dunn, James

DuPont Company

dust storms

Eagles

Earle, George

Early, Steve

Easley, Harry

Eaton, Charles

Eban, Abba

economy

Eden, Anthony

Edgar Thomson Works

Edgerton, Glen E

education

Einstein, Albert

Eisenhower, Arthur

Eisenhower, Dwight David

death of

Forrestal and

HST and

inauguration of

Korean War and

McCarthy and

Marshall and

as NATO commander

as presidential candidate

reelection of

retirement of

on Stalin

vice-presidential candidacy declined by

Eisenhower, John

Eisenhower, Mamie

election of 1948:

Barkley as vice-presidential candidate in

Clifford’s role in

Democratic Convention and

Dewey’s campaign in

Dewey’s candidacy in

Dewey’s defeat in

Eisenhower considered in

HST’s campaign funds for

HST’s campaign in

HST’s election in

Republican Convention in

Ross’s role in

Thurmond and Dixiecrats in

Wallace’s candidacy in

elections:

of 1910

of 1912

of 1924

of 1932

of 1934

of 1936

of 1940

of 1944

of 1946

of 1948,
see
election of 1948

of 1950

of 1952

of 1956

of 1960

see also specific candidates

electrical workers’ strike (1946)

Elks

Elsey, George M

on HST

HST’s reelection campaign and

at Potsdam

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

employment

Employment Act (1946)

England, Clarence

Eniwetok Island

Epstein, Elihu

Equal Rights amendment

Ethridge, Mark

Etzenhouser, Madeline

European Recovery Program (ERP),
see
Marshall Plan

Evans, Tom

Evening Standard
(London)

“Everyman in the White House” (Crawford)

Ewing, Thomas

excess profits tax

 

Fair Deal

Fair Employment Practices Committee

Fairless, Benjamin F

Farley, James A

farmers, federal support for

Farm Tenancy Act (1937)

Farrell, Thomas F

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Dewey campaign aided by

HST’s distrust of

see also
Hoover, J. Edgar

Federal Employees Loyalty and Security Program

Ferdinand Magellan,

see also
Whistle-stop Campaign

Ferguson, Homer

Fermi, Enrico

Field, Lyman

Fields, Alonzo

Fields, W. C

Fillmore, Millard

Finklestein, Paula

Finklestein, Sam

Finklestein, Siegfried

Finland

Finletter, Thomas K

Finnegan, James P

Fired On
(Remington)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Fitzpatrick, Daniel

five percenters

Flanner, Janet

Flavin, John

Flintom, A. D

Floyd, “Pretty Boy,”

Flynn, Edward Joseph

Foch, Ferdinand

Folliard, Edward T

Forde, Margaret Ann

Ford Motor Company

Foreign Affairs,

foreign policy,
see specific countries, individuals, and issues

Formosa:

MacArthur’s views on

U.S. defense of

see also
China; Chinese Nationalists

Formosa Strait

Forrestal, James

atomic bomb and

Berlin crisis and

criticism of

Dewey and

resignation of

as Secretary of Defense

suicide of

Fort Leonard Wood

Fortune

France

Lend-Lease and

Franco, Francisco

Frankfurter, Felix

Franklin Roosevelt Library

Franks, Oliver

Freeman, Douglas Southall

Free-Soilers

Frémont, John Charles

Freud, Sigmund

Friendly, Alfred

Froman, Jane

Fuchs, Klaus

Fulbright, J. William

Fulton, Hugh

Fussell, Paul

 

Gabrielson, Guy George

Gagnon, René

Gallup, George

Gandhi, Mohandas K. “Mahatma,”

Garfield James A

Garner, John Nance “Cactus Jack,”

Garr, Vietta

Garrett, Will

Gates, George Porterfield

Gates, Madge,
see
Wallace, Madge Gates

Gates, Marvin

Gates, Mrs. George Porterfield

Gavin, Tom

Gearhart, Bertrand W

General Electric

General Motors

General Order No

Gentry, Alonzo H

Gentry, Sue

George, Todd

George VI, King of England

German Federated Republic (West Germany)

Germany, Nazi

atomic bomb and

defeat of

Soviet pact with

surrender of

U.S. business agreements with companies in

war criminals of

Germany, occupied

division of navy of

Gestapo

GI Bill

Gibson, Charles Dana

Gibson, John W

Girl from Utah, The

Glass, Carter

glass workers’ strike (1946)

Gleam, The

Glenn Martin Company

Gnefkow, Bernard

Goebbels, Joseph

Goering, Hermann

Goldman, Frank

Goldwyn, Sam

Goodman, Benny

Gore, Albert

Gould, Jack

Graham, Billy

Graham, Frank

Graham, James H

Graham, Wallace H

Grant, Ulysses S

Great Britain

atomic bomb and

decline of

Greece and Turkey aided by

Korean War and

Lend-Lease and

Palestine and

Soviet Union and

U.S. relations with

Wallace’s New York speech on

Great Depression,
see
Depression, Great

Greater Kansas City Plan Association

Great Men and Famous Women

Greece

British aid to

Soviet Union and

U.S. aid to

Greenglass, David

Gregg, Josiah

Gregg, William

Grew, Joseph C

Gromyko, Andrei

Grover, Wayne

Groves, Leslie R.

Guffey, Joe

Gunther, John

 

Hadrian, Emperor of Rome

Hagan, John

Hagerty, James C

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