Dear Harry: Letters to President TrumanRowman & Littlefield, 01/08/2019 - 544 من الصفحات Americans are not shy about letting politicians know what’s on their minds, and, in Harry Truman, they believed that they had a president they could level with. He even sometimes responded personally to them—especially on subjects he felt strongly about. Today, it seems remarkable that a man who described the presidency as “the most awesome job in the world” would take the time to read and respond to White House mail.Truman, however, had an unquenchable thirst for what his “everyday Americans” were thinking, yet distrusted opinion polls. For him, the daily stack of mail provided the next best poll after the voting booth. Authors Giangreco and Moore include a robust cross section of the thousands of messages sent to Truman. Juxtaposed with informative background essays, these letters provide an undiluted account of the greatest challenges confronting the U.S. during Truman’s administration, including civil rights, the Marshall Plan, the formation of Israel, the atomic bomb, the McCarthy hearings, the Korean War, and the General McArthur’s dismissal, which alone solicited more than 90,000 missives. While the majority of the letters are from private citizens, others come from correspondents, the occasional bombastic senator, and a few from the world figures. |
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... military as laid down in the Constitution. Occasionally a burst of critical mail was prompted by one of Truman's own letters. His well-known penchant for shooting from the hip was evident in an angry letter to a music critic who found ...
... military as laid down in the Constitution. Occasionally a burst of critical mail was prompted by one of Truman's own letters. His well-known penchant for shooting from the hip was evident in an angry letter to a music critic who found ...
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... military commander, General Washington. May I have the liberty of bringing back to your mind the utterance of Edmund Burke upon the pitiless parliamentary attack which ended with the ousting of Lord Bute: “What was the distemper of the ...
... military commander, General Washington. May I have the liberty of bringing back to your mind the utterance of Edmund Burke upon the pitiless parliamentary attack which ended with the ousting of Lord Bute: “What was the distemper of the ...
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... military preparedness and racial legislation, particularly as the latter affects our veterans; but first I wish to commend you for your splendid effort to win the election and your program to help the laboring class and the ...
... military preparedness and racial legislation, particularly as the latter affects our veterans; but first I wish to commend you for your splendid effort to win the election and your program to help the laboring class and the ...
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... military (probably the Army) during the war. She pointed out that as commander in chief, Truman needed no special legislative authority to bar segregation and discriminatory practices in the armed forces as well as the Chapter Two 65.
... military (probably the Army) during the war. She pointed out that as commander in chief, Truman needed no special legislative authority to bar segregation and discriminatory practices in the armed forces as well as the Chapter Two 65.
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... military and civil service were seen by black Americans as a clear—and substantive—gain on the civil-rights front, but they were not enough for the liberal intelligensia, who always demanded more, irrespective of the wider political ...
... military and civil service were seen by black Americans as a clear—and substantive—gain on the civil-rights front, but they were not enough for the liberal intelligensia, who always demanded more, irrespective of the wider political ...
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AID TO GREECE AND TURKEY PALESTINE AND THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL CHURCHILL CORRESPONDENCE THE MARSHALL PLAN TH... | 130 |
PERSONAL QUESTIONS SUGGESTIONS LOOKALIKES NUT MAIL | 174 |
THE MACARTHUR FIRING | 231 |
THE ATOM BOMB | 279 |
KOREA | 327 |
JOE MCCARTHY MARINE CORPS PROPAGANDA MACHINE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT THE HUME AFFAIR | 360 |
THREATS FRIENDS ATOM BOMB LEAVING OFFICE | 426 |
NOTES | 483 |
CORRESPONDENCE INDEX | 490 |
INDEX | 501 |
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