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

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by Matthew Algeo

Boyle, Bill, 77

  BP (British Petroleum), 120

  Brannan, Charles, 121

  Brazel, Mac, 174

  Brecht, Raymond C., 136

  Breckinridge, John C., 58

  Bridgestone/Firestone, 67, 68

  Brinkley, Douglas, 231

  British Petroleum (BP), 120

  Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 45

  Brumidi, Constantino, 126

  Bud’s Golden Cream, 51–53

  Burleson, Albert S., 130

  Bush, George H. W., 119, 229

  Bush, George W., 228, 230–31

  Butler, John Marshall, 129

  Byrnes, Bill, 105

  Byrnes, Elizabeth, 105–6

  Calderon, Felipe, 152

  Campbell, James A., 5

  Camp David, 139

  Cancellare, Frank, 212

  Carnegie, Andrew, 130

  Caro, Robert A., 125

  Carter, Jimmy, 122–25, 124, 229

  Caterpillar (company), 67

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 119–20

  Challenge to Liberty, The (Hoover, H.), 140

  Chapman, Oscar L., 121

  Chodorov, Jerome, 154

  Chrysler automobiles, 27–33, 28, 39–40, 219, 233–38, 237

  Churchill, Winston, 114, 142, 218

  Cincinnatus (Roman general), 35

  civil rights, 45–46, 134, 223

  Clark, Alex, 204, 205

  Clark, J. Murray, 207, 208–9

  Clark, Janet, 208

  Clark, Jim, 207–8

  Clark, William, 85

  Clay, Henry, 91

  Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 54. See also Twain, Mark

  Cleveland, Grover, 129–30

  Clifford, Clark, 116–17, 119

  Clifford, Marny, 117, 119

  Clifford, Randall, 117

  Clifford home. See Rockville Pike farmhouse

  Clinton, Bill, 19, 115, 124, 227–30

  Clinton, Hillary, 227–28

  Cocklin, Howard, 176

  Coke bottles, 108, 108, 110, 110

  Cole, Charles “Curly,” 182

  Columbine II (airplane), 189

  Comden, Betty, 154

  commercialization of presidency, 25, 228

  communism

  criticism of Truman and, 48, 139

  McCarthy and, 5, 6, 92–93

  Nixon, R., and, 127–28

  Connelly, Matthew

  on Stevenson campaign, 58, 59, 79

  Truman’s last day as president, 13

  walking with Truman, 146, 147

  Conway, Rose, 23

  Coolidge, Calvin, 114, 140

  Cooper, D. B., 212

  Country House restaurant, 168–69

  Creason, Bob, 234, 236–37

  Creason, Carey, 233–38

  Creason, Gladys, 233–34

  Crocker, Sewell K., 87

  Crusade in Europe (Eisenhower), 26

  Cumberland Narrows, 106

  Cushing, Richard J., 161

  Daniel, Clifton, 219

  Daniel, Margaret Truman. See Truman Daniel, Margaret

  Decatur, Illinois, 60–61, 65–68, 69–70

  Decatur, Stephen, 67

  Decatur Adult Transition Center, 65–67

  defense policies, 34, 136–37, 139

  Democratic National Committee and Party, 76–77

  Democratic National Convention (1948), 133

  Democratic National Convention (1960), 126

  Dennison, Robert, 222

  Deshler (hotel), 181–85

  Desmond, Frank, 93

  Dewey, Thomas E., 10, 154

  Diamond, Neil, 158–59

  Dickinson, Angie, 114

  Dillinger, John, 63

  Dixie Clipper (airplane), 186

  Dixiecrats, 134

  Dixon, George, 132

  Dixon, Jeremiah, 95

  Douglas, Stephen A., 57–58

  Dulles, Allen W., 120

  Eagleton, Thomas, 226

  Edison, Thomas, 196

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. “Ike”

  death of, 226

  as father of interstate highway system, 91

  inauguration and speech, 7–9, 12–13, 229

  Iranian coup, 120

  at Kennedy funeral, 222

  presidential airplanes of, 189

  presidential campaign of, 6–7, 58–59

  presidential pension legislation signed by, 221

  at presidential retreat, 139

  Rosenberg appeal, 48, 55

  Truman and, 33–34, 222

  Eisenhower, Mamie, 6, 189, 222

  Elizabeth, Queen, 114

  Ellington, Duke, 197

  Empire State Building, 147, 151

  espionage, 47–48, 55, 68–69

  Exner, Judith, 114

  ex-presidents. See also specific names of ex-presidents

  addressing Senate, 129

  bonding of, 225, 229

  careers of, 11, 227–28, 229

  commercialization of presidency, refusal of, 25, 228

  government paid expenses of, 230

  group photographs of, 229

  income of, 3, 11, 227–28

  longest tenure, 225

  office expenses (2008) of, 229

  partisan politics and media technology, 139–40

  pensions for, 129–30, 221–22, 229–30

  Secret Service protection of, 223

  Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), 186

  Famine Emergency Committee, 144–45

  Federal-Aid Highway Act, 91

  federal civil service system, 5

  federal highway policies, 86

  Felker, Grace, 100

  Ferdinand Magellan (train), 14, 59, 211–12

  FHA (Future Homemakers of America), 183–84, 185–86

  Field, Marshall, III, 153

  Fields, Joseph, 154

  Fike, Stanley, 35–36, 149

  Fillmore, Millard, 24

  Firestone Tires, 67

  first ladies. See also specific names of first ladies

  longest-lived, 226

  Secret Service protection of, 223

  widow pensions, 130

  Fleming, Jack, 157

  Flying White House, The (terHorst and Albertazzie), 187

  Flynn, Edward J., 9–10

  Ford, Gerald, 19, 113, 228, 229

  Ford automobiles, 32, 37, 89

  Former Presidents Act, 221

  Fort Necessity, 95

  Frankfurter, Felix, 45

  French and Indian War, 95

  Frostburg, Maryland, 99–105

  Future Homemakers of America (FHA), 183–84, 185–86

  Gallagher, Tom, 167

  Gallup Poll, 224

  Garfield, James, 5

  Garroway, Dave, 156, 158

  Gasper, Harry, 204

  Gates, George Porterfield, 20

  Gates-Wallace House, 20–21

  General Electric, 67

  Gennett, Henry, 196

  Gennett Records, 196–97, 200, 200

  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (film), 149

  Gentry, Sue, 42

  George Washington Hotel Company, 178, 179

  Goldwater, Barry, 191

  Grandview, Missouri (Truman farm)

  as Truman Library location, 21, 24, 154, 219

  Johnson, Lyndon B., and public library donation, 125

  sale of Truman farm, 220

  Truman’s farming career in, 76

  Grant, Ulysses S., 11, 54, 129

  Great Depression, 90, 144, 151

  Green, Adolph, 154

  Greenglass, David, 47

  Gromyko, Andrei, 159

  Grover, Wayne, 59

  Grove’s (restaurant), 69–70, 72–73

  Guide to the National Road, A (Raitz), 90

  Guiteau, Charles, 5

  Gulf station at Frederick, Maryland, 106–10, 108, 110

  Hais, Alan, 30–33

  Hall, Leonard W., 139
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br />   Hammarskjold, Dag, 162

  Hangge, Pierce, 212

  Hannibal, Missouri, 51–53

  Harding, Warren, 130

  Harriman, Averill, 26

  Harry S. Truman Library

  dedication of, 219

  fundraising for, 25, 153–54

  location plans of, 21, 24, 154, 219

  photographs displayed at, 117

  Truman burial sites at, 226

  Truman’s office at, 220

  Truman with schoolchildren at, 220

  Hartnett, Francis, 61, 70

  Hastings, Ed, 141

  Heinman, Arthur, 63

  Hellmuth, George, 213

  Hellmuth, Yamasaki, and Leinweber, 213

  Henderson, Fletcher, 197

  highways, U.S. See also roads

  development of, 89

  interstate system of, 91, 96

  numbering system of, 91

  turnpikes, 170–71

  Hilton, Conrad, 181–82

  Hiroshima bomb, 163, 223

  Hofamberg Inn, 214

  Hoff, Horace, 61, 70

  HOK architectural firm, 213

  Holiday, Billie, 69

  Holiday Inn, 64

  Holloway, David P., 199

  Hoover, Herbert

  death of, 225

  finances as ex-president, 11, 222

  income as president, 222

  Mayflower Hotel and, 114

  political activities as ex-president, 140

  residence as ex-presidential, 19, 143, 145–46

  title as ex-president, 15

  at Truman Library dedication, 219

  on Truman’s bathtub accident, 224–25

  on Truman’s house security, 20

  Truman’s relationship with, 144–45, 219–20

  Waldorf-Astoria grand opening, 151

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 63, 114

  Hoover Dam, 145

  Householder, Vic, 217

  House Un-American Activities Committee, 127

  HSMHost, 214

  Humphrey, Hubert, 128

  Hunt, Leigh, 118

  inaugurations

  Eisenhower’s, 7–9, 12–14, 229

  hat fashion and, 7, 58

  televised, first, 157

  Independence (airplane), 188–89, 189, 190–91

  Independence, Missouri, 19–22, 206

  interstate highway system, 91, 96

  Iran, 119–20

  Islamic Revolution in, 120

  J. Fred Muggs (chimpanzee), 157, 158

  Jackson, Andrew, 224

  Jackson, Edward, 194, 195

  Jackson, Horatio Nelson, 87

  Jackson, Richard, 196

  Jacobson, Eddie, 9

  Jefferson, Blind Lemon, 197

  Jefferson, Thomas, 11, 86, 224

  Jeffrey, Donald C., 115

  Jemison, T. J., 46, 47

  Jenner, William, 129

  Johnson, Andrew, 129

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  African Americans and road trip difficulties, 44

  ambassador appointment by, 210

  as Clifford home guest, 119

  death of, 226

  presidential pension bill of, 221

  Secret Service protection of Trumans and, 223

  at senate luncheon, 3, 125, 126, 128

  Truman and, 125, 225, 226

  Jones, Jim, 194

  Julia (United Nations tour guide), 162–63, 164

  Kaufman, Irving, 48

  Kefauver, Albert, 106, 107, 108

  Kehne, Carroll, 106–8, 108, 109–10

  Kehne, Carroll, Jr., 107, 108, 110

  Keller, K. T., 27–28, 29

  Kennedy, Joe, 126

  Kennedy, John F.

  as Clifford home guest, 119

  death and funeral of, 222

  inauguration hat choice, 7

  marriage of, 126

  Mayflower Hotel and mistresses of, 114

  presidential airplanes used by, 190

  at senate luncheon, 3, 125, 126

  Truman and, 125, 126

  on Truman’s Nixon comment, 218

  Kerwin, Glenn, 61

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 47

  Kissinger, Henry, 153

  Knowland, William, 128

  Korea, 15, 80, 94, 113, 120, 136

  Kovacs, Ernie, 155

  Kristen (Rockville Pike homeowner), 117–18

  Ku Klux Klan, 194–95, 199

  Lambert Field, 212–13

  Landry, Robert B., 175

  Lauer, Matt, 158

  Leahy, William, 41

  LeBlanc, Fred, 46

  Lefkowitz, Harry, 148

  Legionnaires’ disease, 138

  Leland Hotel, 198, 200–2

  LeMay, Curtis, 191

  Lewinsky, Monica, 115

  Lewis, Meriwether, 85

  libraries, presidential, 59–60, 213, 229. See also Harry S. Truman Library

  Lincoln, Abraham

  ex-presidents during presidency of, 228

  papers of, 24

  political allies of, 57–58

  presidential library of, 59–60, 213

  presidential ranking of, 224

  Springfield statue of, 57

  Lingle, Lester, Jr., 167

  Lloyd, David, 115

  Longwell, Daniel, 148

  Love, Mary, 184–85

  Lovett, Robert, 121

  Lyons, Leonard, 149

  MacArthur, Douglas, 143, 144, 145–46, 189

  Machael, Thelma, 79, 82

  Mack, C. J. “Neal,” 111–12

  Madonna of the Trail statues, 50, 197–98

  Marshall, George, 6, 7

  Martin, Mary, 185

  Mason, Charles, 95

  Mason-Dixon Line, 95–96

  Mayflower Hotel, 111, 112–13

  McCarthy, Joseph, 6–7, 92–93, 129, 154

  McCormack, John, 221

  McCullough, David, 7

  McGaffey, Ernest, 90

  McGranery, James, 121

  McKinney, Frank, 58, 76–79, 78, 80, 205, 209–10, 218

 

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