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