confidence and morale inspired by
death and funeral of
Eisenhower and
Europe and
Harvard commencement speech of
on HST
HST on
Japan and
Korean War and
MacArthur’s firing and
McCarthy’s attack on
Palestine issue and
at Potsdam
retirement of
as Secretary of Defense
as Secretary of State
Vinson mission and
in World War I
World War II and
Marshall, John
Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program; ERP)
authorship and naming of
conception of
congressional approval of
cost of
Harvard commencement speech on
Kennan’s role in
1948 campaign and
partition of Palestine and
Progressive Party’s denunciation of
Martin, Glenn
Martin, Joseph
background of
and firing of MacArthur
as presidential candidate
as Speaker of the House
Masaryk, Jan
Masons
HST’s membership in
Matheus, Elijah “Cap”
Mathias, Bob
Matthews, Francis P.
Matthews, T. S.
Mayerberg, Samuel S.
Mays, John
Mead, James
Meader, George
meatpackers’ strike (1946)
meat prices
meat shortages
medical care, see health care and insurance
Medicare
Médicis, Catherine de
Meisburger, Edward
Mellon, Andrew
Melton, Thomas
Memoirs (Truman)
Mencken, H. L.
Menefee, Walter
Menninger, William C.
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare)
Merman, Ethel
Messall, Victor
Mesta, Perle
Meuse-Argonne offensive
Mexican-American War
Mexico:
HST’s visit to
water treaty with
Meyer, Agnes
Miami Daily News
Middle East
see also specific countries
Miles, John
military
civilian control of
discrimination in
NSC-68 report on
strength of
unification of forces in
universal training for
see also defense spending; draft, military
Miller, Merle
Miller, Verne
Milligan, Jacob L. “Tuck”
Milligan, Maurice
Milwaukee Journal
minimum wage
mink coats
Minton, Sherman
Mission to Moscow (Davies)
Missouri
congressional districts in
Depression in
General Order No. 11 and
migration to
slavery in
see also Jackson County, Mo.; specific cities and towns
Missouri Compromise
Missouri River
Mitchell, Richard
Mitchell, Samuel
Mitchell, Stephen A.
Molotov, Vyacheslav M.
Monroe, Elizabeth Kortright
Monroe, James
Monroe Doctrine
Monroney, A. S. Mike
Montgomery, Emmett
Moore, Charles H.
Moore, Elizabeth
Moran, Lord
Morgan, David
Morgan Oil and Refining Company
Morgenthau, Henry
Morison, Samuel Eliot
Mormons
Morris, Newbold
Mostyn-Owen, Willy
Mount Palomar
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mr. Citizen (Truman)
Mr. President (Hillman)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Muccio, John
Müller-Grote, Gustav
Mundt, Karl Earl
Murphy, Charles
Murphy, Harry
Murphy, Robert
Murphy, Tom
Murray, Matthew S.
Murray, Phil
Murrow, Edward R.
Mussolini, Benito
Myers, Hank
Mylander, William
Nagasaki, bombing of
Nagoya, bombing of
Napoleon I, Emperor of France
Nash, Frank “Jelly”
Nation
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Bank of Commerce
National Conference of City Planning
National Defense Advisory Commission
National Defense Mediation Board (NDMB)
National Guard
National Old Trails Association
National Security Act (1947)
National Security Council (NSC)
Korea and
military strength report (NSC-68) of
Z Committee of
NATO, see North Atlantic Treaty Organization
natural resources
Navy, U.S.
contracts for, see defense spending
Navy Bureau of Ships
Nazis, see Germany, Nazi
NDMB (National Defense Mediation Board)
Nebraska
Neild, Edward F.
Nelson, Donald M.
Nesbitt, Henrietta
Neutrality Act (1936)
Nevins, Allan
New Deal
Communists and
Second Hundred Days of
New Republic
Newsweek
election poll in
New Yorker
New York Herald-Tribune
New York Post
New York Sun
New York Times
see also Krock, Arthur
New York Times Book Review
New York Times Magazine
Nicholson, Henry
Niles, David K.
Nimitz, Chester A.
Niños Héroes, Los
Nitze, Paul
Nixon, Pat
Nixon, Richard M.
Nixon, Robert
Noland, Ella Truman (aunt)
Noland, Ethel (cousin)
Noland, Joseph (uncle)
Noland, Nellie (cousin)
Noland House
Norman, Lloyd
Norris, George W.
Norstad, Lauris
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
North Attleboro Chronicle
Noyes, David M.
NSC, see National Security Council
NSC-68 report
nuclear weapons, see atomic bomb, atomic energy
Nude Descending a Staircase (Duchamp)
Nuremberg
Nye, Gerald P.
Nye Committee
Odlum, Floyd B.
Odum, Reathel
O’Dwyer, William
Office of Defense Mobilization
Office of Economic Stabilization
Office of Emergency Management (OEM)
Office of Facts and Figures
Office of Production Management (OPM)
Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion
Ogburn, Charlton, Jr.
Ogden, Betty
Ogden, Sue
O’Hara John
O’Hare, William
Ohrdruf-Nord
oil industry
Middle East and
Okinawa
Oliphant, Charles
Olympic Games (1948)
Omaha Morning World Herald
O’Malley, R. Emmett
OPM
(Office of Production Management)
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Order No. 11 (Bingham)
Oregon Journal
organized crime
Osborne, John
Osmeña, Sergio
Ott, Natalie
Oxford University
Pace, Frank, Jr.
PACs (Political Action Committees)
Paderewski, Ignace Jan
Palawan Massacre
Palestine
Arabs in
Forrestal and
Great Britain and
partitioning of
U.N. and
Zionists and
see also Israel
Palmer, Ardelia Hardin
Palmer, W. L. C.
Parent, Thomas
Park, Guy B.
Parkman, Francis
Parks, Lillian
Paterson, Newell
Patterson, Robert
Patterson, Roscoe Conkling
Patton, George S.
Patton, Melvin
Pauley, Ed
Pavlov, V.N.
Paxton, Mary
Payne, Robert
Peabody, Endicott
Peacock, James
Peale, Rembrandt
Pearl Harbor attack
Pearson, Drew
Forrestal and
Vaughan and
Pegler, Westbrook
Pendergast, James “Alderman Jim”
Pendergast, James M.
Pendergast, John
Pendergast, Kathleen
Pendergast, Michael
Pendergast, Mrs. Thomas
Pendergast, Robert
Pendergast, Thomas Joseph “T.J.,”
Benton and
character and appearance of
death of
downfall of
HST’s first meeting with
HST’s relationship with
HST’s Senate campaign and
illness of
Lazia and
Pendergast, T. J., Jr.
Pendergast political machine
as stigma on HST
Pentagon
see also Defense Department, U.S.
Pepper, Claude
Perkins, Frances
Perlman, Philip B.
Perón, Juan
Perry, J. Lester
Perching, John J.
Pétain, Henri Philippe
Peters, Mize
Petrillo, James C.
Petroleum Administration
Phelps, Margaret
Philadelphia Record
Philippines
Phillips, Cabell
photographers
Pierce, Franklin
Pilgrims
Pine, David A.
Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company
Pittsburgh Courier
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Press
Pius XII, Pope
Plain Speaking (Miller)
Plunkett, J. P.
Plutarch
PM
Point Four Program
Poland
Potsdam Conference and
Soviet occupation of
Policy Planning Staff
Political Action Committees (PACs)
“Politics of 1948, The” (Rowe)
Polk, James Knox
poll taxes
Potsdam Conference (1945
atomic bomb and
central issues at
HST’s quarters at
results of
Potsdam Declaration
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.
Powell, Hettie
Powell, Jane
Prague
Pravda
presidential flag and seal, redesigning of
President’s Economic Council
press conferences, SIS-819
press photographers
Prettyman, Arthur
Progressive Citizens of America
Prohibition
Proxmire, William
Pruden, Edward
Public Utility Holding Company Act (1935)
Puerto Rico
Pugh, Conley
Pugh, Noah E.
Purcell, E. T. “Buck,”
Pye, John
Quantrill, William
Rabaut, Louis C.
racial prejudice
HST and
in military
see also civil rights
Radford, Arthur
radio
Railway Labor Act (1934)
railway strike (1946)
Randall, Clarence
Rash, Bryson
Rayburn, Sam
funeral of
HST’s reelection campaign and
1948 Democratic Convention chaired by
Truman Doctrine supported by
as vice-presidential candidate
Reagan, Ronald
Reason Why, The (Woodham-Smith)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Reddig, William
Redding, Jack
Red Legs
Reece, Carroll
Reed, Clyde Martin
Reed, James A. “Fighting Jim,”
Reed, Nell Donnelly
Reed, Stanley F.
Regan, Phil
Remington, Frederic
Reminiscences (MacArthur)
rent control
Republican National Committee
Republican National Conventions:
of 1944
of 1948
of 1952
Republican Party
Jewish votes and
1946 congressional elections won by
1950 congressional elections won by
see also election of 1948; elections; specific individuals
Resolution
Reston, James
Results of County Planning
Reuben James
Reuther, Walter
Reynolds, Frank A.
RFC (Reconstruction Finance Corporation)
Rhee, Syngman
Rice, John
“Richard Cory” (Robinson)
Richardson, Seth
Richetti, Adam
Rickenbacker, Eddie
Ricketts, Floyd
Ridge, Albert
Ridgway, Matthew
in Korean War
Riedel, Richard
Rigdon, William
Roberts, Roy
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Robinson, Harold
Robinson, Joseph T.
Robinson, S. M.
Rockefeller, John D.
Rogers, Ginger
Rogers, Will
Romania
Roosevelt, Alice
Roosevelt, Eleanor
HST endorsed by
husband’s death and
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt, Franklin Jr.
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
“arsenal of democracy” speech of
background of
Barkley and
blacks and
bombing and
Byrnes and
Churchill and
Clark and
Congress and
Court-packing plan of
death of
declining health of
Dewey and
dog of
electronic surveillance and
Ferdinand Magellan and
Flynn’s influence on
Four Freedoms of
fourth term of
funeral of
Good Neighbor Policy of
health of
Herbert Hoover and
HST compared with
HST on
HST’s relationship with
“inspection tour” of
King and
Lend-Lease program of
Long and
loyalty issue and
MacArthur and
Map Room esta
blished by
Marshall and
New Deal of, see New Deal
1944 elections and
office of
OPM and
Palestine issue and
Pauley and
Secret Service and
seizure suffered by
Soviet Union and
Stalin and
Stark and
Truman Committee and
Wallace and
War Production Board established by
at Yalta
Roosevelt, James “Jimmy,”
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roper, Elmo
Rose, Billy
Rosenbaum, Bluma, see Jacobson, Bluma Rosenbaum
Rosenberg, Anna
Rosenman, Dorothy
Rosenman, Sam
Ross, Charlie
death of
on HST
as HST’s childhood friend
HST’s reelection campaign and
loyalty of
at Potsdam
press secretary appointment of
Vaughan and
Wallace’s New York speech and
Ross, Mike
Rovere, Richard
Rowe, James A., Jr.
Rowley, Jim
Royall, Kenneth C.
Royce, Morton
rubber production
Rummel, Henry
Rusk, Dean
Russell, Richard B., Jr.
S-1, see Manhattan Project
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Star-Times
Saint-Mihiel
Salisbury, Frank O.
Salisbury, Spencer
Saltonstall, Leverett
San Antonio Express
Sanderson, Julia
San Francisco Conference (1945)
San Francisco Examiner
Sargent, John Singer
Sato, Naotake
Saturday Evening Post
Saturday Review
Saudi Arabia
Sawyer, Aaron
Sawyer, Charles
Schenectady
Scherer, Ray
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.
Schneider, Edward L.
Schoeneman, George J.
Schultheiss, Paul
Schwartz, Harry
Schwellenbach, Lewis
Scott, Hazel
Scouten, Rex
Seattle Times
Sebald, William
Secretary of Defense, creation of office of
Secret Service, U.S.
assassination attempt and
at Potsdam
Senate, U.S.:
Appropriations Committee
Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
District of Columbia Committee
Hoey Committee
HST’s career in
Interstate Commerce Committee
Kefauver Committee
Military Affairs Committee
Nye Committee
Printing Committee
Public Buildings and Grounds Committee
Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, see Truman Committee
Tydings Committee
see also Congress, U.S.
Sermon, Roger T.
Sevareid, Eric
Seward, William H.
Shakespeare, William
Shanghai
Shannon, Joseph B.
Shannon, William V.
Shaw, George W.
Shaw, Mary
Sherman, Forrest
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Shertok, Moshe
Sherwood, Robert
Short, Dewey
Short, Joe
Shostakovich, Dmitri
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