2009 Annual Report by Emily Crawford

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The Harry S. Truman Library Institute, a 501(c)(3) organization, is dedicated to the preservation, advancement, and outreach activities of the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, one of our nation’s 13 presidential libraries overseen by the National Archives and Records Administration.

Together with its public partner, the Truman Library Institute preserves the enduring legacy of America’s 33rd president to enrich the public’s understanding of history, the presidency, public policy, and citizenship.

“The decisions he made, the institutions he built, the principles he stood for have kept us safe for more than half a century... and they will light our way for decades to come.” – Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright

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Mission Volunteer Leadership Executive Message Truman125 What We Do Exhibitions Programs and Events Education Research Grants and Awards Truman Bookshelf Friends and Members Ways to Be Involved Upcoming Events Volunteers and Interns Financial Overview Donor Honor Roll

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Truman at 125 Reprinted with permission from Prologue, the quarterly magazine of the National Archives and Records Administration

Adventures with Grandpa Truman by Clifton Truman Daniel

Harry Trumanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s History Lessons by Samuel W. Rushay, Jr.

Truman Timeline On pages 7, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 43, 45, 47 Truman125 Exhibit Photos Featured throughout; index on pages 55-56

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Volunteer Leadership Honorary Chairman Clifton Truman Daniel

Officers William C. Nelson, George K. Baum Asset Mgmt. Mary E. Hunkeler, Community Volunteer John J. Sherman, Inergy Directors

CHAIRMAN & PRESIDENT

TREASURER

VICE CHAIR

SECRETARY

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Carol Anderson, Ph.D., Emory University Alan L. Atterbury, Midland Properties, Inc. Kirk W. Carpenter, Carpenter & Company Michael J. Devine, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum John A. Dillingham, JoDill, Inc. and Dillingham Enterprises Charles M. Foudree, Ret., Harmon Industries, Inc. Sam F. Hamra, Hamra Enterprises Mary C. Johnston, National Volunteer Allen L. Lefko, Bank of Grain Valley Kenneth B. McClain, Humphrey, Farrington, and McClain, P.C. Thomas R. McGee, Jr., DST Realty John P. McMeel, Andrews McMeel Universal

Roger A. Novak, Novak Birks, P.C. Herbert M. Kohn, Bryan Cave LLP

Larry L. McMullen, Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Rev. Wilson D. Miscamble, CSC, University of Notre Dame James B. Nutter, Jr., James B. Nutter & Company Cappy P. Powell, Community Volunteer Page Branton Reed, Community Volunteer Beth K. Smith, Community Volunteer Elizabeth T. Solberg, Fleishman Hillard, Inc. Charles S. Sosland, Sosland Publishing Co. The Hon. James W. Symington, O’Connor & Hannan Maurice A. Watson, Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Clyde F. Wendel, UMB Bank n.a.

National Advisory Council Walter Isaacson, President & CEO, Aspen Institute The Hon. John C. Danforth, Partner, Bryan Cave LLP

The Hon. Richard A. Gephardt, Gephardt & Associates, L.C. Michael J. Johnston, Ret., The Capital Group Honorary Trustees

Mr. Henry W. Bloch Mrs. Elinor Borenstine Mr. Willard L. Boyd Mrs. Mary Shaw Branton Dr. George H. Curtis

Mr. George M. Elsey Dr. Lawrence E. Gelfand Mr. Larry J. Hackman Dr. Susan M. Hartmann Dr. Ken Hechler

Dr. Francis H. Heller Mr. Milton P. Kayle Mr. Jonathan M. Kemper Dr. Richard S. Kirkendall Mr. Henry J. Massman, IV

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Mr. Thomas A. McDonnell Mr. C. Westbrook Murphy Mr. James B. Nutter, Sr. Mrs. Barbara J. Potts Mrs. Gloria Schusterman

Mr. Morton I. Sosland Mr. Elmer B. Staats Mr. David Stanley

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De a r c o l l e a g u e s a n d f r i e n d s,

At any time, it is exciting and rewarding to play a leading role in the advancement of President Truman’s legacy

and presidential library. But this was never more true than in 2009, when the nation marked the 125th anniversary of Harry Truman’s birth in Lamar, Missouri. There’s no doubt about it: the legacy of our nation’s 33rd president is thriving and increasingly relevant. Throughout 2009 – in more than 10,000 news reports, commentaries and blogs – President Truman’s decisive leadership was held up as a standard by which today’s leaders are judged. On issues ranging from health care reform to civil liberties to government accountability, those trying to make sense of today’s politics and policies turn to the man from Missouri. Little wonder that, in its second survey on presidential leadership, C-SPAN once again declared Truman to be one of our nation’s greatest leaders, in the top five with Lincoln, Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and FDR. To understand our nation, and our path forward, one must understand Truman and his presidency. That’s why – with your help – we will continue to ensure that the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum remains a classroom for democracy, especially for young people and future generations. We were energized and inspired by all those who stepped up so passionately to support the programs and initiatives of the Truman Library Institute. We want to especially thank Truman125 Honorary Chairs Adele and Donald Hall, members of the Honorary Committee, and lead sponsors of Truman125 (see the complete listing on page 7). During fiscal year 2009, we raised a record $2.2 million for our mission-driven initiatives and programs, and on page 10 you can find a complete list of all that is accomplished with your support – it’s titled What We Do. What we do, really, is help connect people who care about the future of our democracy with significant opportunities to share the important lessons gleaned from Truman’s legacy – through nationally acclaimed educational outreach, perspective-changing exhibits, and engaging, thought-provoking forums. This year, we were grateful for the opportunity to connect with friends old and new, including descendants of Truman’s WWI Battery D; Gloria Schusterman and Elinor Borenstine, the daughters of Truman’s lifelong friend, Eddie Jacobson; presidential family members Susan Ford Bales and Margaret Hoover; and some of today’s leading thinkers and influencers, including Paul Volcker, Cokie Roberts, and Arianna Huffington. We couldn’t accomplish this good work without you. Please accept our invitation to be renewed in your commitment to Truman’s vision for his presidential library. There are so many ways to be involved, and all offer wonderful benefits and experiences. On page 42, you’ll find information about membership levels and benefits. New this year is a Cumulative Giving Society, and our Legacy Society continues to offer tax-savvy options for those wishing to make a significant, lasting contribution benefiting the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum. We are grateful to each one of you who share our desire to advance President Truman’s legacy and library. We hope you enjoy this commemorative annual report.

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ALEX BURDEN Executive Director

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May 8, 2009 marked the 125th birthday of Harry Truman, recognized worldwide as one of America’s greatest leaders. To commemorate this important anniversary, the Truman Library Institute and Harry S. Truman Library and Museum offered a diverse array of special exhibitions, programs and V.I.P. events, including the premiere of a new photo exhibit, Truman125: A Life in Photographs, the reopening of Truman’s Working Office, a Veterans Day Salute to Captain Harry and the Doughboys of Battery D, and a special appearance by ABC political commentator Cokie Roberts at the Truman Library Institute’s annual fundraising dinner, Wild About Harry. The yearlong celebration was led by honorary chairs Adele and Donald Hall and made possible by lead support from the Halls, as well as Hallmark Cards, Inc., Mary and John Hunkeler, Elaine and Norman Polsky, Beth K. Smith, and the Courtney S. Turner Charitable Trust, Daniel Weary, trustee. This commemorative annual report includes several special features. Throughout, all 125 images from Truman125: A Life in Photographs are pictured; each is identified in the photo index found on pages 55-56. Harry Truman’s life is recalled in words, as well. Three articles, first published in Prologue , the quarterly magazine of the National Archives and Records Administration, provide new thinking and personal perspectives on President Truman’s life and leadership. Finally, important Truman events and decisions are highlighted on a timeline that begins at the bottom of this page and runs throughout the report. Truman125 programs and exhibits are identified with this symbol .

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Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Harry S. Truman

“Adele and I are honored to lead the

Truman125 Honorary Committee

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THE LIFE of Harry S. Truman

U.S. Senator Kit Bond Mary Shaw Branton U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver John C. “Jack” Danforth Clifton Truman Daniel George M. Elsey The Hon. Richard Gephardt Sam Hamra Mary Hunkeler

Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder Herbert M. Kohn U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill David McCullough U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore William C. Nelson Missouri Governor Jay Nixon U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton Beth K. Smith

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May 8: Harry S. Truman is born in Lamar, Missouri.

The Trumans move to 619 Crysler Street in Independence, Missouri. Young Harry meets Bess Wallace for the first time in First Presbyterian Church’s Sunday School.

Truman takes a job as a clerk for the National Bank of Commerce in Kansas City, Missouri.

1906 To help out his parents and his brother, Vivian, Harry moves to the 600-acre family farm near Grandview, Missouri and helps them manage and operate it.

Harry Truman’s 125th birthday.” – Donald Hall, Truman 125 Honorary Co-Chair

1910 Truman begins courting Bess Wallace.

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The worldly and patrician Roosevelt had been president for 12 years, and many Americans could not imagine anyone else in the White House. Who was the new president, with his Missouri twang, thick glasses, and quick-step manner? Truman had been a bank clerk, a miner, an oil well wildcatter, and—for 11 years—a farmer. He had served as a battery captain in World War I. After the war, he opened a haberdashery shop, but it failed. Then he went into politics. After eight years as a local government official, he became a United States senator. All of these experiences developed in Truman an innate

L to R: Senate campaign worker, 1934; Truman and General Douglas MacArthur on Wake Island, 1950; Truman on the family farm in Grandview, 1953.

common touch, a feel for the concerns of ordinary Americans that those of FDR’s social status did not have. Truman liked the U.S. Senate and would have been content to remain there for the rest of his career. But it was not to be. In 1944, Democratic Party bosses—convinced Roosevelt would not live out a fourth term—persuaded the president to dump the tooliberal Henry Wallace as vice president and accept the centrist, border-state Truman as FDR’s fourth-term running mate, and, in effect, the next president. The party bosses were right, and the new vice president was soon summoned to be president.

breakaway elements of the Democratic Party. He won by hard campaigning and by capitalizing on the rapport he had with ordinary working men and women, merchants, farmers, and veterans. During the campaign, Truman refused to play it safe politically. He proposed civil rights legislation and ordered desegregation of the armed forces. Even before the campaign season began, he recognized the state of Israel within minutes of its founding. And when Stalin blocked allied access to divided Berlin, Truman ordered a massive airlift.

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The next four years, however, were even tougher ones. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established, but the Soviets now had the bomb and half of Europe, and the communists had won control of mainland China. At home, the “red scare” was sweeping the nation. Then, on June 25, 1950, the North Koreans invaded South Korea. Truman responded with troops under the banner of the United Nations. The nation was at war again, and a frustrating stalemate developed. When his Far East commander, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, publicly urged pushing beyond North Korea and engaging the Chinese, contrary to the official U.S. position, Truman fired him, an action that resulted in a public outcry. Truman left office in 1953 with low approval ratings, but they climbed steadily over the years, in the eyes of historians as well as the public. Candidates of all stripes still make a pilgrimage to Independence, hoping some of the Truman magic rubs off on them nearly 40 years after his death in 1972 at the age of 88.

The war in Europe ended within a month of Truman’s accession to the presidency on April 12, 1945, and the atomic bombs brought the Pacific war against Japan to an official end on September 2, 1945. Now Truman was the leader of the America that FDR made, with little knowledge of his predecessor’s postwar plans for a peacetime America—a nation vastly different from the one that existed before the Great Depression and World War II. Returning soldiers and sailors faced shortages of jobs and affordable housing. Many consumer products prohibited by wartime rationing were now in great demand but scarce supply, since industrial capacity had been shifted to war materials. Labor-management battles, on hold in wartime, were on again, and that meant strikes. Congress ended wartime price controls, and that meant inflation. Truman proposed his “Fair Deal”—increases in Social Security and minimum wages, more public housing, and aid to education—but it got nowhere in Congress. And then there was the state of the postwar world, which had so concerned Roosevelt. Truman took FDR’s place at the table with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin to decide how a defeated Germany was to be divided and set the boundaries of the spheres of influence of the victorious Allies, decisions that stood for decades. Despite having little preparation for the job, he moved in typical Truman style: quickly and decisively. He proceeded with FDR’s plan for the United Nations. He enunciated and put into action as the Truman Doctrine his plan of containment of Soviet Russia. And he authorized the Marshall Plan to rescue a warravaged Western Europe. He reorganized the nation’s military and intelligence-gathering agencies—this even with the support of the 1947–1948 Republican-controlled Congress. In 1948, running for a full term of his own, Truman won an upset victory, shocking the pundits, pollsters, the Republicans, and the

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——— Harry Truman was pretty much the same person when he left the White House in 1953 as when he suddenly became its occupant in 1945. Whether people called out to him, “Give ’Em Hell, Harry,” sneered at him as the “accidental president,” or called him affectionately “the man from Independence,” Truman did what he thought was right for the country. He did not agonize over the decisions he had to make, nor was he given to melancholy or brooding; he slept soundly every night. But when the buck stopped at his desk, a decision was made. And, as he often liked to sum things up, “that’s all there was to it.” Reprinted with permission from Prologue, the quarterly magazine of the National Archives and Records Administration.

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What We Do

For more than a half century, the Harry S. Truman Library Institute—a not-for-profit, tax-exempt corporation—and the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum have worked in tandem to fulfill a common mission to keep bright the flame of President Truman’s legacy of leadership and service. Through nationally acclaimed educational outreach, world-class museum exhibits, international research programs, and stimulating forums, the Truman Library Institute brings to life the invaluable record of Truman’s life and times, preserved and interpreted by the historians, archivists and curators of the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum.

In 2009, the Truman Library

In Fiscal Year 2009, the Truman Library Institute contributed nearly $2.3 million to this good work. Programs made possible wholly or in part – through funding and/or staffing – by the Truman Library Institute include:

Institute raised a record $2.2 million to advance the legacy of President Truman.

• Harry S. Truman Book Award

• Truman Legacy Events

• Scholar’s Award

• The White House Decision Center

• Dissertation Year Fellowships

• Student Museum Tours

• Research Grants

• Ongoing Educational Programs

• Conferences

• Website Hosting and Management

• Summer Teacher Institute

• Museum and Archives Support

• National History Day – Greater Kansas City

• Digital Archives Support

Regional Competition

• Student Internship Program

• Permanent and Temporary Museum Exhibits

• Volunteer and Docent Program

• The Howard & Virginia Bennett Forum on the

• Tourism Marketing

Presidency

• Public Relations

• Wild About Harry

• Publications/Communications

• The Truman Medal for Economic Policy

• Capital Improvements

• Community Partnerships

• Preventative Maintenance

• Government Relations

• Development and Fundraising

• Museum Programs

1916 August: Truman is sworn into regular army service as a member of 129th Field Artillery regiment.

1918 April 13: Truman arrives in Brest, France, on board U.S.S. George Washington. July 11: Capt. Truman is assigned command of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery regiment, 35th Division. The battery is composed of 188 men, 167 horses, and a complement of French-designed 27 75mm guns. Four months later, World War I ends.

1919 June 28: Harry Truman and Elizabeth (Bess) Virginia Wallace are married. November: Truman and Eddie Jacobson open a men’s haberdashery store in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Truman is appointed major in Field Artillery, Officers Reserve Corps.

1922 A recession forces the closure of the haberdashery. With the endorsement of county Democratic party leader T. J. Pendergast, Truman wins election as an eastern judge on the Jackson County Court.

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Memories of World War II: Photographs from the Archives of The Associated Press November 11, 2008 – January 11, 2009

Memories of World War II featured 126 photos from all theaters of the war and the home front, from AP photographer Joe Rosenthal’s classic Iwo Jima flag raising in 1945 to scores of pictures not seen in decades. The images showed a range of moments, from the poignant to the powerful, including German children drilling for war in gas masks, a stoic paratrooper preparing to jump over Normandy, the brutal island battles of the Pacific, the internment of Japanese Americans back home, the devastation across Europe, and the thrill of victory. “Our objective was to bring back the immense scope as well as the individual tragedy and challenge of World War II,” said Charles Zoeller, curator of the exhibition. “We wanted to create a photographic record that allows a younger generation to better understand the sacrifices made by men, women and children in all the nations touched by the war.” The exhibit, which attracted nearly 8,000 museum visitors during its run, provided a platform to help area families in need: Museum visitors bringing contributions for Harvesters Community Food Network received $1 off admission.

School House to White House: The Education of the Presidents February 7 – August 30, 2009 Organized by the National Archives and Records Administration, School House to White House: The Education of the Presidents focused on the early education of American presidents from Herbert Hoover through George W. Bush. The family-friendly, multimedia exhibit was designed to engage visitors of every age and interest. More than 150 documents, artifacts, photos and films from the National Archives collections revealed fascinating details about the children who would grow up to lead our nation. Highlights included Richard Nixon’s 8th-grade autobiography; early report cards of Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter; and Harry Truman’s inspiring essay titled “Courage” (pictured). During its run, School House to White House was viewed by 50,467 visitors.

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Truman begins classes at the Kansas City School of Law; due to financial hardship, he will not complete the program.

February 17: A daughter, Margaret, is born to Harry and Bess.

Truman is elected presiding judge of the Jackson County Court.

Nov. 6: In his first senatorial campaign, Truman defeats incumbent Republican Roscoe C. Patterson by 262,000 votes. In his first term, he will speak out against corporate greed and warn of the dangers of Wall Street speculators and other moneyed special interests attaining too much influence in national affairs.

In a hotly contested battle, Truman retains his U.S. Senate seat. It is considered a turning point in his political career.

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On May 8, 2009—the 125th anniversary of President Truman’s birth in Lamar, Missouri—the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum unveiled a new photo exhibit, Truman125: A Life in Photographs. The exhibit’s 125 images—many of which had never before been displayed, and all culled from the Truman Library’s collection of more than 100,000 photographs—helped visitors better understand the 19th-century farm boy who became a 20th-century giant. The exhibit turned a historical lens on the most important chapters of Harry Truman’s life, from his humble beginnings to his courtship of Bess Wallace, his unexpected rise to the presidency, and his return to Independence, Missouri. Complementing the photographs were rarely seen artifacts from the Truman Library’s collection of nearly 30,000 objects, as well as video clips which featured the former president discussing the events represented by still images. Walking through the exhibit, visitors encountered quotes about Harry Truman by people making news today, including President Obama, Senator John McCain, former President George W. Bush, Senator Claire McCaskill, former President Bill Clinton and others. Younger visitors found many hands-on, interactive features in the gallery. Throughout, the exhibit was a reminder that the largely black-and-white record of Truman’s life cannot contain the colorful complexity of this remarkable character.

1943 Senator Truman’s work as chairman of the “Truman Committee” (which exposed fraud and mismanagement of military funds) earned Truman his first appearance on the cover of Time.

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May: Truman is selected as one of the 10 most useful officials in Washington, D.C. in a poll 37 by Look magazine. July 21: Truman is nominated for the office of vice president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

April 12: President Roosevelt dies; Truman is sworn in as 33rd president of the United States. May 8: Truman announces the end of the war in Europe via radio. It is his 61st birthday. July 17-August 2: Truman attends a conference at Potsdam, Germany to discuss

At a Glance EXHIBIT: Truman125: A Life in Photographs RUN DATES: May 8 - October 8, 2009 ATTENDANCE: 44,692 CURATOR: Clay Bauske, museum curator, Truman Library SPONSORS: Courtney S. Turner Charitable Trust, Daniel Weary, Trustee Adele and Donald Hall Norman and Elaine Polsky Family Supporting Foundation - GKCCF Special thanks to UMB Bank and the Yousuf Karsh Estate

39 the post-war treatment of Germany with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. August 6: Truman announces the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. August 14: Truman announces the end of war with Japan at a press conference. September 6: Truman presents to Congress his plan to expand Roosevelt’s New Deal. Time names President Truman “Man of the Year.”

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T ru m a n ’ s Wo r k i n g O f f i c e A New View on

President Truman’s Historic Office

“When we walk through these doors,

we are reminded of the

remarkable man Harry Truman was. But we also are reminded of some of the most dramatic chapters of our American story… a shared story that binds us together, and charges us to carry the promise of our nation into the future. This is why Donald and I are proud supporters of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute and why the Truman Library will continue to have our support in the years to come.” Adele Hall, Truman 125 Honorary Co-Chair

In a fitting celebration of President Truman’s 125th birthday, the ceremonial rededication and reopening of Truman’s Working Office took place on Thursday, May 7, 2009. From the time the Truman Library opened in 1957, Harry Truman maintained his office here, often working five to six days a week. In it he wrote his book Mr. Citizen, articles, letters, and other correspondence. He met with Presidents Hoover, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, and with other notable Americans like Jack Benny, Ginger Rogers, Robert Kennedy, Thomas Hart Benton, Dean Acheson,

and Earl Warren. He participated actively in the day-to-day operation of the Library, establishing themes for the Library’s first museum exhibits, personally training groups of museum docents, and conducting impromptu “press conferences” for visiting school students. Following Mr. Truman’s death in 1972, the office became an exhibit that could be viewed by the visiting public through an outside window. But the cumulative effects of more than 30 years of excess exposure to daylight and fluctuations in temperature and humidity took a serious toll on the contents of Truman’s office. The ultraviolet rays

truman’s working office – before and after

Top: Before, during and after views of Truman's Working Office and the new exhibition gallery. Bottom, l. to r.: Restoration of Truman's model of the USS Missouri; before and after photographs of a glass cigar box, Harry Truman's Bible, and a signed portrait of Sam Rayburn.

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from sunlight dramatically faded many of the objects in the room. Silver objects on the President’s desk showed tarnishing from the room’s climate fluctuations. Mold growth was evident on some of the leather-bound books. The project to preserve Truman’s office was threefold: 1) conserve the historical materials displayed within the office, 2) insure the future protection of the office and its contents with better climate control systems and the elimination of harmful ultraviolet rays from sunlight, and 3) create an exhibit pavilion with engaging interpretive exhibits emphasizing the precedents Truman set for his Library and for the entire presidential library system.

Photos by Bruce Mathews

Today, the vision is realized. Thanks to supporters of the Truman Working Office Campaign, this important new interpretive gallery now provides unprecedented access to this historic office while sharing the largely untold story of Truman’s post-presidential years.

THE RENOVATION OF PRESIDENT TRUMAN’S OFFICE WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY LEADING SUPPORT FROM… Hall Family Foundation _______ 48 American Century Investments Courtney S. Turner Charitable Trust/ Daniel C. Weary and Bank of America Trustees DST Systems, Inc. Mrs. Marjorie N. Martin † Dr. & Mrs. John Hunkeler Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. McDonnell The McGee Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities Mrs. Beth K. Smith _______ J.E. Dunn Construction Company Mr. & Mrs. Morton I. Sosland The Sunderland Foundation _______ Mrs. Mary Shaw Branton Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Bruening Mr.† & Mrs. Richard C. Crumpton Milton W. Feld Charitable Trust Elaine Feld Stern Charitable Trust Mr. & Mrs. Chuck Foudree Mr.† & Mrs. S. Lee Kling Mrs. Barbara Hall Marshall Mr. Roger A. Novak Mr. Lambert B. Ott Harry Portman Charitable Trust Mr. & Mrs. William M. Reisler Mrs. & Mrs. Charles A. Spaulding The STAKE Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Clyde F. Wendel For a complete list of Truman Working Office contributors, please call (816) 268-8237.

50 Harry Truman at his presidential library, speaking with students, visiting with family, on the front lawn, and posing for a sketch by Thomas Hart Benton.

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Talkin’ Truman

Truman Library archivists commemorated Harry Truman’s 125th birthday with a new series of informative programs highlighting rare and unique items from the Truman Library’s collections.

Whether in a live audience or via cable television, radio broadcasts or internet streaming, the programs offered in 2009 reached tens of thousands of individuals. Events celebrating the 125th birthday of President Truman are highlighted.

The Truman and Wallace Families of Independence May 9, 2009

Independence Appreciation Day January 10, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

An Independence Wedding June 13, 2009

Inauguration Broadcast January 20, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Admission was free for a live broadcast of the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama.

Our Favorite Photos of HST July 11, 2009

Truman Legacy Series “Evolution of the National Security Council: Truman to Present” Featuring Dr. D. Robert Worley, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College February 2, 2009 | Kansas City Public Library – Truman Forum Co-sponsored by the Truman Center for Governmental Affairs at UMKC and the Kansas City Public Library Fabulous First Ladies Featuring Patricia Krider, director, National First Ladies’ Library February 13, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Commemorating the 124th birthday of First Lady Bess Wallace Truman; co-presented by the Independence Pioneer Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Presidents’ Day Celebration February 16, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Wild About Harry April 23, 2009 | Marriott-Muehlebach Hotel, Kansas City, Mo. Featuring Cokie Roberts, author and commentator Honorary Chairs: Adele and Donald Hall Event Chairs: Mary Shaw Branton and Page Branton Reed Highlights on page 22

Boss Tom & Truman: The Pendergast Connection August 8, 2009 Spies and Subversives in the Dawn of the Atomic Age September 12, 2009 Harry Truman and “The Rich & Famous” October 10, 2009 Captain Harry: The Military Career of a Missourian November 14, 2009 Christmas at the White House December 12, 2009 Offered monthly at 11 a.m. on second Saturdays, Talkin’ Truman programs will continue in 2010; for a complete program line-up, please see page 43

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Truman “created a moment that echoes through the years.” – Juan Williams Political Commentator

Live from the Truman Library The Walt Bodine Show, KCUR 89.3 FM Featuring Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of President Truman, and Matthew Algeo, author of Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure May 7, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Toasting Truman May 7, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Rededication of Truman’s Working Office – an exclusive event for members of the Truman Library Institute’s premier membership society Presidential Wreath Laying Ceremony May 8, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum In observance of the 125th birthday of Harry S. Truman Children’s Puppet Show “Happy Birthday, Harry!” May 9, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Truman Legacy Symposium “Harry S. Truman and Congress: A Conflicted Legacy” Featuring Former U.S. Senator George McGovern May 15-17, 2009 | Little White House, Key West, Fl. Keeping the Peace in Countries of Conflict Featuring Lt. Col. John Curatola, Ph.D., U.S. Marine Corps, and an international “Peacekeepers Roundtable” May 30, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Co-presented by the United Nations Association of Greater Kansas City

Honorary Fellows Night at the Museum June 11, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum The second annual members-only event included private tours of the newly renovated Truman’s Working Office and the temporary exhibit Truman125: A Life in Photographs EDDIE A One-Act Play about Eddie Jacobson, Harry Truman, and a Friendship That Changed the World Starring Marvin Starkman as Eddie Jacobson Featuring Special Appearances by Clifton Truman Daniel (Truman grandson) and Elinor Borenstine and Gloria Schusterman (Jacobson daughters) June 25, 2009 | The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah Made possible by generous support from Bonnie and Herb Buchbinder and Ann Jacobson Freedom to Serve Forum Featuring Juan Williams, political commentator July 27, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Commemorating the 61st Anniversary of President Truman’s Executive Order 9981, establishing fair and equal treatment within the United States Armed Forces Organized and co-presented by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

Vietnam Veterans Appreciation Event - VIP Reception September 12, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum National Issues Forum “Democracy’s Challenge: Reclaiming the Public’s Role” September 29, 2009 | Kansas City Public Library – Truman Forum Co-presented by the Kansas City Public Library, the Harry S. Truman Center for Governmental Affairs (UMKC), Kansas City Consensus, the Kettering Foundation, and the National Issues Forums Institute

Clockwise from top left: Juan Williams leads panel discussion at the Freedom to Serve Forum; Marvin Starkman portrays Eddie Jacobson; Vietnam Veterans Appreciation Event; Clifton Truman Daniel (left) and author Matthew Algeo during a live broadcast of The Walt Bodine Show.

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Truman Legacy Series “Harry Truman the Road Builder” Featuring Samuel Rushay, supervisory archivist, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, and Tom Gerend, assistant director for transportation, Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) August 30, 2009 | Kansas City Public Library – Truman Forum Co-presented by the Kansas City Public Library and the Harry S. Truman Center for Governmental Affairs, University of Missouri-Kansas City

“One of the most compelling, inspiring events ever produced to commemorate my grandfather’s legacy. And what a joy to reconnect with the Jacobson family!” – Clifton Truman Daniel

“The Truman Library is a great national treasure.” – Joseph Nye Harvard Kennedy School

Truman Legacy Series “Appointing the Supreme Court: From Truman to Obama” Featuring Dr. David N. Atkinson, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of Political Science and Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City October 5, 2009 | Kansas City Public Library – Truman Forum Co-presented by the Kansas City Public Library and the Harry S. Truman Center for Governmental Affairs, University of Missouri-Kansas City National Issues Forum “Preparing Today’s Kids for Tomorrow’s Jobs: What Should Our Community Do?” October 13, 2009 | Kansas City Public Library – Truman Forum Co-presented by the Kansas City Public Library, the Harry S. Truman Center for Governmental Affairs (UMKC), Kansas City Consensus, the Kettering Foundation, and the National Issues Forums Institute Book Event A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel Featuring Allis and Ronald Radosh October 20, 2009 | Kansas City Public Library – Truman Forum Co-presented by the Kansas City Public Library and the Jewish Community Relations Bureau/American Jewish Committee

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March 12: Truman requests (and in May receives) an appropriation of $400 million before a joint session of Congress to fight the spread of communism in Greece and Turkey (Truman Doctrine). June 14: Truman signs a peace treaty ratification with Italy, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. July 28: Truman attends the funeral of his mother in Grandview, Missouri.

1948 April 3: Truman signs the Foreign Assistance Act of 1948, creating a European Recovery Program (ERP) to implement the Marshall Plan for U.S. aid to European recovery. May 14: Truman provides de facto recognition to the new state of Israel. June 25: Truman signs the Displaced Persons Act authorizing admission into the United States of 205,000 European displaced persons over the following two years. June 26: Truman orders an airlift of supplies into Berlin, in conjunction with the British, in answer to a Russian blockade of the portion of that city occupied by the Western powers. The airlift

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Harry S. Truman Medal for Economic Policy Awarded to Paul A. Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve October 23, 2009 | Kansas City Downtown Marriott Co-presented by the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration, University of MissouriKansas City; The Economic Club of Kansas City; and the Missouri Council on Economic Education The United Nations and the Protection of Children in Conflict Zones Featuring Radhika Coomaraswamy, United Nations Under Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict October 29, 2009 | Kansas City Public Library – Truman Forum Co-presented by the United Nations Association of Greater Kansas City, the Harry S. Truman Center for Governmental Affairs at UMKC, and the League of Women Voters Howard & Virginia Bennett Forum on the Presidency “Presidential Leadership in Transformational Times” November 1, 2009 | Unity Temple on the Plaza, Kansas City, Mo. Moderator Joseph S. Nye, Jr., former dean of Harvard’s JFK School of Government Panelists Arianna Huffington, co-founder, The Huffington Post Robert Kuttner, author of Obama’s Challenge Timothy Naftali, director, Nixon Presidential Library & Museum Battery D Reunion November 11, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum First-ever gathering of descendants of WWI soldiers who served with or under “Captain Harry” Veterans Day Salute Featuring U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton, Clifton Truman Daniel, and D. M. Giangreco, author of The Soldier from Independence November 11, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Truman Night with the Missouri Mavericks November 20, 2009 | Independence Events Center Truman-themed night on the ice garnered international media attention and raised more than $10,000 for the outreach and educational programs at the Truman Library

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– Paul A. Volcker Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve

59 carried more than two million tons of supplies in 270,000 flights. The blockade was lifted on May 12, 1949. July 15: Truman is nominated Democratic candidate for president on the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, after 35 delegates from Alabama and Mississippi walk out of the convention in protest against a strong civil rights plank in the party platform. Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky is chosen as

Truman’s vicepresidential candidate. July 26: President Truman signs Executive Order 9981 in order to provide equality of treatment for all American service members. It is considered the first significant stride toward racial equality since Lincoln’s administration. September 6-October 30: During his

“whistle stop” campaign, Truman travels nearly 22,000 miles and makes 275 speeches, centering his attack upon the record of the “do-nothing 80th Congress.” November 2: Truman is elected to his second term as president, contrary to the forecasts of newspapers and poll takers, who had almost unanimously predicted his defeat.

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On Thursday, April 23, 2009, the Harry S. Truman Library Institute celebrated the 125th birthday of President Truman at its 10th annual fundraising gala, Wild About Harry. More than 760 attendees filled the ballroom of the Muehlebach Tower for a program that featured best-selling author and acclaimed political commentator Cokie Roberts. Other special guests included Clifton Truman Daniel and Thomas Daniel (grandsons of Harry Truman) and members of their families; Vaden Bales and Susan Ford Bales (daughter of former President Ford); and the great-granddaughter of former President Hoover, Margaret Hoover, and her fiancee John Avlon. The fundraiser, led by Honorary Chairs Adele and Donald Hall and Event Chairs Mary Shaw Branton and Page Branton Reed, was emceed by KCPT's Nick Haines and raised $330,000 in support of the Truman Library's nationally acclaimed public forums, educational programs and museum exhibitions. Lead support for Wild About Harry was generously contributed by the event's Oval Office and West Wing underwriters: Mary Shaw Branton and Family; DST Systems, Inc.; Adele and Donald Hall; Elaine and Norman Polsky; INERGY; and Beth K. Smith. Honorary Chairs

Steering Committee

Don and Adele Hall

Kristin J. Amend Mary Atterbury Harvey Bodker Carolyn Bond Lori Burbidge Roberts Kirk Carpenter Poo Coker Michele Crumbaugh Richard Crumpton † Sharon Dankenbring Dean Davison

Event Chairs Shawsie Branton Page Branton Reed

Patricia Davison Jill Dean Ann Dickinson Susie Evans Colleen Foudree Carol Freirich Sharon Greenwood Joy Hobick Mary Hunkeler Martha Immenschuh Judy Johnson Donna Katz

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Nancy Lee Kemper Kay Martin Tom Martin Bridget McCandless Molly McGee Maureen McMeel Barbara Nelson Donna Pitman Donna Pittman Barbara Potts Cappy Powell Margo Quiriconi

Cathy Schultz Jeanne Sosland Susan Spaulding Barbara Unell Bob Unell Jean Wagner Eileen Weir Tom Weir Polly Wolbach

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SUSAN EISENHOWER Granddaughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Inaugural Harry S. Truman Legacy of Leadership Award Recipient

JAMES A. BAKER, III Former U.S. Secretary of State

THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2010 The Marriott-Muehlebach Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri

Save the date for the Truman Library Institute's 11th annual fundraising dinner, Wild About Harry! Sponsorships start at $1,000. Benefits for lead underwriters include a premier table for 10 guests, tickets to the private sponsors’ reception, exclusive behind-the-scenes access at the Left: Bill* & Barbara Nelson, John Avlon & Margaret Hoover, Vaden Bales & Susan Ford Bales, Truman Daniel, Thomas Daniel, Clifton Truman Daniel* Above (from top): Honorary Chairs Donald & Adele Hall with special guest Cokie Roberts and Event Co-Chairs Shawsie Branton* and Page Branton Reed*; keynoter Cokie Roberts; Jonathan* & Nancy Lee Kemper, Maija and Michael Devine*, John McMeel* Photos by Bruce Mathews

* Denotes a Truman Library Institute director or trustee

Truman Presidential Library and Museum, year-round recognition and much more.

FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS, PLEASE CONTACT KIM RAUSCH, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, AT (816) 268-8237 OR KIM.RAUSCH@NARA.GOV.

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Jean and William H. Dunn, Sr., Honorary Chairs Martha and David Immenschuh, Event Chairs

Adventures with

grandpa truman BY CLIFTON TRUMAN DANIEL

I was six years old before I discovered that my grandfather had been President of the United States. That’s because my parents kept it from me. Up to that time, Grandpa Truman was just someone who came around from time to time and was either to be accorded a great deal of respect or avoided entirely. And you avoided him because he had some very odd ideas about how children should spend their free time. When I was very young, my grandparents often visited us at our Park Avenue apartment in New York. They actually stayed down the street at the Carlyle Hotel on Madison, where my

mother, Margaret, had lived in the early 1950s while pursuing a radio and television career. Grandpa kept to the same routine every morning. He got up before the sun, a habit he acquired as a farmer, and went for a onemile walk at a military pace, 120 steps per minute. He often said that any more than a mile walk each day didn’t do a man over 40 any good. He then ate a light breakfast and grabbed as many different newspapers as the hotel offered. (He also said you couldn’t get an accurate picture of events from just one newspaper.) Tucking the papers under his arm, he walked up the block to our apartment, let himself in with the spare key, sat down in the living room, and read

ABOVE: Truman with grandsons in Key West, Florida, 1968.

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Home for the holidays, Margaret Truman Daniel and two-and-a-half year old Clifton are greeted by Harry and Bess at the Independence train station (1959).

until someone woke up. In our house that could take a while. My younger brother William and I were the first ones down one morning, and as we reached the bottom of the stairs, we saw what looked like The New York Times with a pair of legs, sitting by itself in the living room. We knew who was behind the paper, so we started to tiptoe past him to get to the den where my parents kept the television set. Grandpa lowered the paper to turn the page and caught us. “Where do you think you’re going?” he asked. “Into the den to watch TV,” I said. “You don’t want to do that,” he said. I’m thinking, “Yeah, I do. That’s why we were tiptoeing.” “I have a better idea,” he said. With that, he stood, walked past us into the den, and reached up to the top shelf for a book. “Come on out here and sit by me,” he said. You didn’t argue with him, so we sat down and he opened the book and began to read. About 20 minutes later, Mom came downstairs, her eyes half open and her hair standing on end, and stopped cold at the sight in her living room—her two small boys, sitting stock still on either side of her father while he read to us from a book that had absolutely no pictures in it. “What in God’s name are you reading to those two?” she demanded. He held up the spine of the book so she could read it. It was Thucydides, Greek history, at 6 o’clock in the morning, to a four-year-old and a two-year-old. I went home a few years ago to visit my mother and thought that if Grandpa considered

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Thucydides so important, I should have another crack at him. I found the book—it’s actually Thucydides/Plato from a boxed set—opened it long enough to read the first half-page and put it right back on the shelf. Even at 47, it was tough going. For my grandfather, however, history was indispensable. When he was 6, my great-grandparents took him to a Fourth of July celebration. At the end of the day, when the fireworks were exploding overhead, Mama Truman noticed that Grandpa was looking in the other direction. Shortly afterward, she took him to the eye doctor, who diagnosed “flat eyeballs,” meaning Grandpa was very farsighted. The thick glasses he wore for the rest of his life slowed him down on the schoolyard, but they opened up a whole world to him at the tips of his fingers. And Mama Truman didn’t stick comic books in his fingers. For his birthday one year, she gave him a four-volume history, each volume big enough to use as a doorstop, titled Great Men and Famous Women. I think he was 9. One of his high school teachers recalled that Grandpa and his best friend and later press secretary Charlie Ross tried to build a Roman wall across the schoolyard. Legend has it that by the time they finished high school, he and Charlie had read every single one of the 2,000 books in the Independence public library. (Secretary of State Dean Acheson put the number at 3,500, probably during an election year.) No wonder Grandpa thought that by age 4 I was behind in my Thucydides. In addition to a love of history, I discovered that Grandpa also believed his grandchildren should develop stiff spines. In the

dropped my books at the door, marched dining room of our New York apartment, I “It didn’t sink in for me over to her, and said: had a hobbyhorse, the kind that sits on a “Mom, did you know . . .” stand and is attached by springs at the “Yes,” she told me. “But just remember knees. You can ride those things forward what ‘President of the something. Any little boy’s grandfather can and back, side to side, up and down. You be president of the United States. Don’t let can kill yourself on them, and I know that it go to your head.” because that’s what my mother was alUnited States’ meant It didn’t. It went right over my head. I ways telling me I was going to do if I was 6, after all. When my daughter Aimee didn’t slow down. was the same age, we were channel surfOne morning, she wasn’t around. until I was all of 7. ing one Saturday, trying to find something Grandpa and I were alone in the dining that would appeal to a six-year-old and a room. I was riding like a madman, and he 36-year-old, when I stopped on a biograwas back behind The New York Times, ig- Even then, it took seeing phy of Grandpa. noring me completely. Mom always said “Aimee,” I said. “That man right there on he had total concentration when he was Lyndon Baines Johnson the screen is Harry S. Truman, the 33rd presireading. At home in Independence, when dent of the United States. He was your greatthe three of them retired to the study after grandfather. What do you think of that?” dinner, Mom and Gammy, who loved a in his pajamas.” “Dad,” she said without a flicker of intergood argument, often started one. est. “You passed Nickelodeon. Go back.” Grandpa, who just wanted peace and (Aimee, by the way, is now a 21-year-old psychology major quiet, would read to the bottom of a page, mark the spot with a who still talks to me that way.) finger, and look up long enough to see if he was in immediate It didn’t sink in for me what “President of the United States” peril. If not, he read on. Otherwise, he moved to another room. meant until I was all of 7. Even then, it took seeing Lyndon Baines No kindergartner on a hobbyhorse was going to distract him. Johnson in his pajamas. Mom’s dire prediction came to pass. I tipped the horse over. I For years, I thought I was special, seeing President Johnson in his landed on the floor and the contraption landed on top of me. My pajamas. It turns out, however, that he let almost everybody see him grandmother, who was in the kitchen, heard the commotion and in his pajamas. A few years ago, I found a photo in the back of Smithcame running. When I saw her, I burst into tears. After all, it’s sonian magazine. There’s LBJ, propped up in bed, in his pajamas, good for a glass of milk and a cookie. She had almost reached with three guys in suits sitting at the foot of the bed, taking notes. me when a voice from across the room said, “Stop right there. The occasion for me was the day after President Johnson’s Don’t touch him.” January 1965 inauguration. My grandparents had been invited to She did. And I looked up to see who had ruined this for me. There the inauguration but had declined, asking instead if my mother was Grandpa, glaring at me over the top of his New York Times. “You,” he said. “Quit crying. You’re not hurt.” could represent them—and maybe take the family. President No adult had ever spoken to me that way. I stopped immediately. Johnson said that would be just fine and arranged for us to stay “Get up. Get that horse up. Get back on it and start riding it again.” in Blair House, across the street from the White House. I could not have moved faster. With Gammy’s help, I picked up Many of you will recall that my grandparents and my mother the horse and climbed back on. She went back to the kitchen, lived in Blair House for nearly the entirety of Grandpa’s second Grandpa went back behind the Times, and I rode very carefully for term. At the time, the White House was rotten and falling apart. about 30 seconds before slipping off and getting the hell out of Grandpa first noticed it when he was downstairs in the State Dinthere. As it turns out, my grandfather was nicer to me than his own ing Room and could see the chandelier quivering. Eventually, the father had been to him. When Grandpa was 6, he fell off a pony leg of my mother’s piano went through the floor of her sitting that John Truman was leading around the pasture on the family room, and it was discovered that the second floor was staying up farm. John, who knew his way around a barnyard, was disgusted. mostly out of habit. During a more than three-year renovation, “Any boy who can’t stay on a pony at a walk deserves to walk crews tore the building down to its exterior walls and rebuilt it himself,” he said and made Grandpa walk back to the house. from the inside out, bringing equipment in through a tunnel. Early At least I was allowed to get back on. on in the process, Grandpa took a group of reporters and photogBut as I said, I had no idea where a love of history and a stiff raphers on a tour, pointing out where steel rods had been run spine had led my grandfather until I was in the first grade. And I from the roof through the second floor to hold it up while prepafound out the hard way. Someone walked up to me one day at rations were under way to move the First Family. New York Times school and asked, “Wasn’t your grandfather president of the photographer George Tames recalled that Grandpa stopped outUnited States?” To which I brilliantly replied, “I don’t know.” side his private bathroom where one of the rods had been run Mom used to love to tell people what happened that afterthrough the floor next to the toilet. noon. She was reading in the living room when I came home, “You know, this thing scares me,” he said. “One evening I’m

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off to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, going to be sitting in here and pull the plunger and wind up in the State Dining “Protocol dictated who was about half his size. Mr. Humphrey, however, wasted not an ounce Room. And the Marine Band will play Hail to of muscle on my mother. He simply called the Chief as I come through the ceiling.” for a chair and held her hand while she The day after President Johnson’s inaustepped back by herself. guration, we were scheduled to have that upon arrival, The next morning, after greeting us at the breakfast with him and Lady Bird Johnson elevator, Mrs. Johnson led us down to the in the White House family quarters. It took East Sitting Hall, where coffee was served us forever to get ready since we had to and we waited for the president. He put on our best clothes, which for William the President was strolled out a few minutes later in his pajaand for me meant matching gray slacks, mas, bathrobe, and slippers, and endeared white shirts, blue blazers, and clip-on ties. himself to us children by bypassing the After all, we were not only going to the adults and plunking down in front of us. White House, but we had a 10 a.m. train to dance first “How’d you boys like the tour of the back to New York, and you always dressed White House the other day?” he asked. for travel. “Did you meet the dogs? I understand you We arrived upstairs at the White House went to the National Air Museum. How was and, when the elevator door slid open, I with the hostess.” that?” remember being nonplussed—and a little In the middle of the conversation, he put out—that the Johnsons apparently suddenly stood up and said, “I think I have had not had to go through the same mornsomething you boys will like.” ing rigmarole. There stood the First Lady in a canary yellow With that, he left, returning a few minutes later, his hands full dressing gown worn over a canary yellow nightgown and caof everything he could find that had his name on it—stationery, nary yellow slippers. Every hair was in place, and her makeup envelopes, pens, pencils. It looked like he had cleaned out his was perfect. It looked like she had been waiting for us outside desk. He started divvying up the loot. “One for you, one for you, the elevator all night long. two for you, two for you . . .” He’d almost finished when Lady My mother was not nearly as chipper. In addition to riding Bird Johnson reached across the table and snatched something herd on a seven- and five-year-old, she’d had perhaps as long a out of his hands. night as the Johnsons. “Lyndon, for God’s sake,” she said. “You can’t give them those.” There were four inaugural balls that year. Mom was the hostApparently he’d tried to give us each a book of White House matches. ess for the one at the Mayflower Hotel. Protocol dictated that (Years later, after I gave a speech at the Johnson Library in upon arrival, the President was to dance first with the hostess, Austin, Texas, Mrs. Johnson hosted a dinner for me on the library’s then with his wife, and then with all the other wives. Then he top floor. As the meal began, she announced that she had a small had to shake hands with all the men whose wives he’d been token for me and asked me to hold out my hand, into which she dancing with. Because it was so time-consuming, there was litdropped two books of matches from the LBJ Ranch.) tle room for dillydallying, which was why President Johnson Back in 1965, my father looked at his watch and said, “Mr. was a bit concerned to find that there was no way to get my President, we have to be going. We have a 10 o’clock train.” mother out of her VIP box onto the ballroom floor. “Aw, Cliff, relax,” the president said. “You have plenty of time. Many ballroom boxes are designed with doors leading directly The train will wait.” onto the dance floor. The Mayflower’s was not. To get out, you “For you, yes,” Dad said. had to leave by the door at the back of the box and walk down a “Don’t worry about it,” the president said. “Have another cup corridor to one of the main ballroom doors. Upon arrival at the of coffee.” ball that night, President Johnson found that there were hunDad was actually in no hurry. He was managing editor of The dreds of people between him and the door my mother would have to use, so he wasted no time. He simply reached into the New York Times, in a private audience with the president of the box and hauled her out. United States, who was in his pajamas. What could be better? For years, I was given the impression that this was a delicate Finally, though, he glanced at his watch again and bolted to operation with my mother simply floating over the box railing in his feet. It was nearly 10 a.m. and we still had to get to Union the arms of the president of the United States. That was until I Station, about 10 minutes away. We fairly sprinted down the found photos tucked into the back of a family photo album. hall, piled into the elevator, and dove into the limousine waiting There are arms and legs all over the place and it looked like outside. Even as the car shot through the White House gates, it several Secret Service agents were involved. was past 10 o’clock. It might have been even worse when it came time to put Mom “Well, what are we going to do now?” Dad said. back because by that time, President Johnson had handed her This precipitated a tense discussion of options, including later

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trains and planes, the latter of which did not appeal to Mom who, like my grandmother, did not enjoy flying. In the fracas, no one noticed that the car wasn’t aiming for the front of Union Station but heading around back. Before any of us knew what was happening, we had pulled onto a train platform, which I had not known was possible or even prudent. There on the platform was a porter with a baggage cart, a conductor holding a pocket watch and, behind them, a train. Dad did not ask whether or not it was the right train. He simply started slinging bags at the porter. “Folks, relax,” the conductor said. “You have plenty of time. The White House called.” President Johnson had stopped the train. My father and I had two very different reactions to this. Dad’s was something on the order of, “Well, why didn’t he tell us he was going to do that and spare us all the worry?” Mine was, “Wow. Grandpa could stop trains.” And this was exactly the sort of reaction my parents and grandparents had hoped to avoid by not telling me Grandpa had once run the country. My head grew three sizes, and I became insufferable for weeks. Grandpa never had that problem with the presidency. He was in awe of the power, used it to the best of his ability, and refused to let it go to his head. It didn’t define him, and he was happy to give it up when the time came. He always said that in leaving the White House, he was taking a step up, to U.S. citizen. Upon his arrival back in Kansas City in 1953, someone asked him what the first thing he planned to do in retirement was. Grandpa smiled and said, “Take the grips [suitcases] up to the attic.” He concentrated on writing his memoirs and building his presidential library, but there were some things he refused to do, humble U.S. citizen or not. In the spring of 1953, my grandmother got after him to mow the lawn, a chore he loathed. “Look, pal,” I like to imagine her saying. “You’re not president of the United States anymore. Go mow the lawn.” “All right, all right,” he said. “I’ll get to it.” But he didn’t. So she nagged him some more and he promised again that he’d do it and then didn’t. So she nagged him some more and finally he rolled up his shirtsleeves one morning, got out the mower, and went at it. My grandmother looked out the window and almost died. It was Sunday morning. Everyone else in town was passing the house on their way to church and here was the ex-president of the United States, mowing the grass, not going to church, and waving and calling to everyone to make sure they knew it. Gammy ran outside and cut off the mower. “Don’t you ever do that again,” she said. “OK,” Grandpa said. They hired a yard man after that. In fact, one of the men they hired turned out to be a lay minister, so not only had Grandpa used the church to get out of yard work, he’d hired clergy to do it for him. Grandpa was the last truly accessible ex-president. When he retired, the Secret Service protection vanished. It was not extended to ex-presidents until after John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. Today, there is a five-foot steel fence around my grandparents’ house, put up by the Service in 1947, but from 1953 to 1964 it wasn’t

"Grandpa" and "Gammy" with grandsons in Ne is pictured in th w York City. The e foreground. author

locked. Anyone who wanted to could walk up and knock on the door. My favorite story is about the man whose car blew a tire on Delaware Street, right in front of the house. Not knowing where he was or whose house he was approaching, the man walked through the unlocked gate and up to the front door where he rang the bell. Grandpa answered in his shirtsleeves. “Can I use your phone, please?” the man said. “I have a flat.” “Sure,” Grandpa said. “Come on in.” The man called a local mechanic, who said it would take 20 minutes or so to get to him. “I’ll wait outside,” he told Grandpa. “Nonsense,” Grandpa said. “Have a seat. Relax.” As far as we know, they spent the next 20 minutes chatting amiably in the living room. When the tow truck arrived, the man stood, shook Grandpa’s hand, and thanked him for his hospitality. “Not at all,” Grandpa said, showing the man out. “It was nice talking to you.” The man got halfway down the front steps before he stopped and turned. “I hope you won’t take offense,” he said. “But you look a lot like that son of a bitch Harry Truman.” “No offense at all,” Grandpa said with wide grin. “I am that son of a bitch.” Clifton Truman Daniel is the oldest grandson of President Harry S. Truman and is currently director of public relations for Harry S Truman College, one of the seven City Colleges of Chicago. He is also honorary chairman of the board of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute. A frequent speaker and fundraiser, he is author of the 1995 book, Growing Up With My Grandfather: Memories of Harry S. Truman .

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Left & Center: Summer Institute participants; National History Day regional contestants. Right: Two National History Day participants, Bradley Dice (left) and Emily Duncan (right) placed in the top ten at the national competition; the Liberty (Mo.) Junior High School students are pictured with their teacher, Inga Nordstrom-Kelly.

Programs That Change Lives The Truman Library Institute is committed to helping America’s schools prepare our youth for a lifetime of active and informed citizenship. President Truman knew that the health of our democracy is fundamentally tied to our understanding of history and government. Yet recent studies show that students are failing to grasp the significance of people, places and events in history. The programs and resources offered at the Truman Library seek to significantly raise the level of student achievement in this vital area of study, and to support teachers’ mastery of their subject areas with access to leading scholars, primary source materials, and best practices in teaching. Beyond the classroom, programs at the Truman Library inspire young people to seek lives of engaged service and purpose, as modeled by America’s 33rd president. The programs and conferences listed here were made possible, in part, by the leadership, vision and generosity of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

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During 2008-09, our education programs reached more than 25,000 students and teachers. Countless others accessed the Truman Library’s invaluable online resources and curricula.

The White House Decision Center During FY09, 5,835 students stepped into a recreation of The West Wing and into the shoes of President Truman, his cabinet members and advisers, and members of the media. Praised in The New York Times as a model for all presidential libraries, the White House Decision Center (WHDC) is the Truman Library’s flagship education program. Designed as a hands-on history lab, the WHDC strengthens student skills in information gathering and analysis, problem solving, decision making, leadership, and communication, while deepening knowledge of history and government. In 2008-09, a new scenario was added to the program line-up. Now, “Ending the War Against Japan” complements the three existing simulations, “The Berlin Airlift,” Desegregating the U.S. Armed Forces,” and “The Outbreak of the Korean War.” GRADE 8 – ADULT

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Museum Tours More than 8,600 students visited the museum during the 2008-09 academic year. Many of the students who received docent-led tours attend disadvantaged schools and visited the museum on scholarship, thanks to generous support from members and sponsors. K-12 “I hope many other kids get to learn as much as I did. I can’t wait to come back!”

3,500+ users of customized classroom based resources

Truman Footlocker 1,775 students experienced the Truman Footlocker, a popular, hands-on classroom resource filled with replicas of Truman-related artifacts, documents and photographs. K-12

National History Day 403 students in grades 6-12 competed in the regional competition of the National History Day Contest on February 28, 2009. Three of our contestants received national recognition at the finals in Maryland. Presidential Trivia Contest On October 19, 2009, student teams from across Missouri tested their knowledge of Leaders, Legislation and Lawyers: The Branches of Government.

TEACHER INSTITUTES AND OUTREACH “For history teachers, there really is nothing else like this.” National History Day Workshop for Educators November 7, 2009 The Truman Library’s education team prepares area teachers to inspire and guide student participation in the National History Day Contest. The theme for 2009 was The Individual in History; more than 400 students competed in the regional competition hosted by the Truman Library. “I have attended many national conferences, including NEH, and this is the best!”

Summer Institute Between the Wars, 1919-1939 July 20-25, 2009 Educators from across the nation attended the sixth annual Summer Institute. Focused on the theme Between the Wars, 1919-1939, high school educators spent the week with scholars, historians, and eyewitnesses to history studying a range of topics, including the Versailles Treaty, America in the 1920s, the Great Depressions, Russia in the 20s and 30s, prohibition, Kansas City Jazz, the League of Nations and more. “The information, professionalism and collaboration are of the highest caliber.”

Fall Workshop Famous Kansas and Missourians October 30-31, 2009 Midwest teachers deepened their expertise and gained a wealth of classroom resources at the Fall Teachers Workshop, presented in cooperation with the National Archives at Kansas City and the Jackson County Historical Society.

MORE RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS Conferences/Teacher In-services – The nationally recognized education staff frequently are invited to present programs on Truman-era history and the teaching of social studies. Curriculum Kits – Packaged curricula, ready for classroom use, offer secondary educators interactive learning modules on the Cold War, Presidential Decision Making, and WWII. Video Loaning Library – More than 120 unique videos on Truman, WWI, WWII, the Cold War, and the Truman era are available to educators at no charge. Teacher Talk – A newsletter featuring education news and resources is delivered to 10,500 educators, free of charge.

In a word, the Truman Library’s education programs are about access. Access to America’s story, access to today’s leaders and thinkers, and access to lives of service and purpose.

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Since it first opened its Research Room in 1959, the Truman Library has welcomed nearly 14,000 historians, writers and scholars representing more than 40 nations and nearly every state in the Union. From the start, the Truman Library Institute provided modest grants-in-aid for researchers. Today, Research Grants, Dissertation Year Fellowships, and the biennial Scholar’s Award and Harry S. Truman Book Award provide assistance to emerging scholars whose contributions illuminate the critical issues of Truman’s presidency and legacy. Research Grants Dayna Barnes, Doctoral Candidate in International History, London School of Economics, United Kingdom, American Wartime Planning for Postwar Japan, 1937-1947 James R. Blackstone, Doctoral Candidate in History, Clare College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, The Influence of the Senate Republican Right Upon American Foreign Policy, 1950-54 Zeynep G. Capan, Doctoral Candidate in International Studies, Hautes Etudes Internationales, Turkey, Narratives of the Cold War Michael J. Doidge, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Southern Mississippi, An Army Worth Fighting For: Doctrinal, Strategic, Bureaucratic Transformation in the U.S. Army from 1946-1964 Barbara J. Falk, Associate Professor, Department of Defence Studies, Canadian Forces College/Royal Military College of Canada, Cold War Political Justice Deng Feng, Associate Professor, School of History and Culture, Northeast Normal University, China, Armistice Negotiations During the Korean War: A Comprehensive Study of the Chinese, Russian and American Archival Literature Amy L. Fluker, Masters Thesis in History, University of Mississippi, The Buck Stops Where?: Atomic Accountability and the Truman Administration in Public History and Memory Paul Ham, Journalist, The Sunday Times, Sydney, Australia, Hiroshima Sam Herley, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Formation of Indian Tribal Termination Policies During the Truman Administration, 1945-1953: Viewpoints Mats Ingulstad, Doctoral Candidate in History, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, The Industrial Mobilization State and its Foreign Policy, 1945 to 1958; The American Quest for Strategic Materials Melvin S. Lebe, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of California, Los Angeles, The United States and the United Nations during the Truman Administration Sam Lebovic, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Chicago, The Problem of the Press and the Making of Cold War Freedom Robin Markwica, Doctoral Candidate in International Relations, Oxford University, United Kingdom, The Prestige Factor: The Role of Prestige, Pride, and the Reputation in U.S. Foreign Policy since 1945 Joel T. Miyasaki, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Reaching out from Internment: The Imperial Context of Japanese American Incarceration during World War II Robert M. Oppenheim, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Psychological Strategy and Korean War Anthropology Amy Rutenberg, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Maryland, Boys Who Say No: Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Avoidance of Military Service in the United States, 1945-1975 Brandon P. Seto, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of California, Santa Barbara, Filling the Spiritual Vacuum: American Christianity and the Occupation of Japan Patrick Slaney, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of British Columbia, Canada, Inventing the Scientific Community: Science, Democracy and Freedom in America, 1945-58 Tyler Turek, Masters Thesis in History, University of Ottawa, Canada, Two Solitudes: Canada, the United States, National Security and the Korean War, 1948-1951 Robert D. Van Horn, Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University, The Genesis of the Chicago School of Antitrust, 1946-1955 Jenifer Van Vleck, Doctoral Candidate in History, Yale University, No Distant Places: Aviation and Global American Century Jaclyn E. Woolf, Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, Texas Tech University and Government Instructor, Department of Social Sciences, Midland College, Interests, Constraints, and Judicial Selection: A Rational Approach to Presidential Selection of Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals and Supreme Court Nominees

Dissertation Year Fellowship Dean Phillip Chen, Doctoral Candidate in Political History, University of California, Santa Barbara, Origins of American Taiwan-Strait Policy – The Wilsonian Internationalist Identity and Truman Administration’s Decision for Strategic Ambiguity

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Later this year, the Truman Library Institute will announce the winner of the 2010 Harry S. Truman Book Award. Selected by a committee of Truman scholars, the award recognizes the best book published in 2008 or 2009 that deals primarily with Truman’s public career and/or U.S. history between 1945 and 1953. Past recipients include Dean Acheson (1970); Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute (1988); and John Lewis Gaddis, noted historian of the Cold War (2006). Here, we highlight some of the contenders for the prestigious 2010 award. Consider adding these titles to your reading list. Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip Matthew Algeo, Chicago Review Press, 2008 Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms Denise M. Bostdorff, Texas A&M University Press, 2008 Douglas MacArthur: Statecraft and Stagecraft in America’s East Asian Policy Russell D. Buhite, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008 Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-53 Steven Casey*, Oxford University Press, 2008 The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s Finest Hour Andrei Cherney, Putnam, 2008 Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts David C. Engerman, Oxford University Press, 2009 The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko, Yale University Press, 2008 Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 D. M. Giangreco, Naval Institute Press, 2009 The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman D. M. Giangreco, Zenith Press, 2009 American Blacklist: The Attorney General’s List of Subversive Organizations Robert J. Goldstein*, University Press of Kansas, 2008 Truman’s Whistle Stop Campaign Steven R. Goldzwig*, Texas A&M University Press, 2008 Legerdemain, The President’s Secret Plan: The Bomb, and What the French Never Knew James J. Heaphey, History Publishing Co, LLC, 2008 Honorable Survivor: Mao’s China, McCarthy’s America, and the Persecution of John S. Service Lynne Joiner*, Naval Institute Press, 2009

Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb Against Japan Sean Malloy, Cornell University Press, 2008 Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order Robert J. McMahon*, Potomac Books, Inc., 2008 Truman and MacArthur: Policy, Politics, and the Hunger for Honor and Renown Michael D. Pearlman, Indiana University Press, 2008 A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel Allis and Ronald Radosh*, Harper Collins Publishing, 2009 Hiroshima: The World’s Bomb Andrew J. Rotter*, Oxford University Press, 2008 Allies Against the Rising Sun: The United States, the British Nations, and the Defeat of Imperial Japan Nicholas Evan Sarantakes*, University Press of Kansas, 2009 Creating the National Security State: A History of the Law that Transformed America Douglas T. Stuart, Princeton University Press, 2009 The Berlin Airlift: The Salvation of a City Jon Sutherland and Diane Caldwell, Pelican Publishing, 2008 The American Nuclear Disarmament Dilemma, 1945-1963 David Tal*, Syracuse University Press, 2008 A President, a Church, and Trails West: Competing Histories in Independence, Missouri Jon Taylor*, University of Missouri Press, 2008 Inventing the “American Way”: The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement Wendy L. Wall*, Oxford University Press, 2008 America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009 Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945 Marc Selverstone, Harvard University Press, 2009 * Former Truman Library Institute grant recipients

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of no other motivation which so accounts for my awakening interest as a young lad in the principles of leadership and government.” –Memoirs by Harry S. Truman, vol. I (1955)

Throughout his long life, Harry S. Truman thought, wrote, and spoke about history. For Truman, history had a meaning that went beyond a casual interest. It provided him ethical and moral guidance and was a tool that he used to make decisions, most notably as president of the United States during his two terms of office, 1945 - 1953. As a student of Truman has put it, Truman “internalized” history and looked to the past almost reflexively whenever a problem or issue arose. Harry Truman’s interest in history is well documented. But what has not been examined comprehensively are the lessons that Truman learned from history: those he learned in L to R: The Truman Committee, 1942; Truman with a visibly frail FDR, 1944; senior class, Independence High School, 1901.

school, those he learned in life, and those he drew upon to make decisions during his political career, especially as president. In my analysis of Harry Truman’s tremendously rich documentary written and spoken record, I conclude that he learned the following lessons from history. Lesson 1: Democracy is Fragile Harry Truman’s reading of history demonstrated for him the fragile and temporal nature of democratic government. After he left the presidency in 1953, he envisioned a presidential library that would be “a center for the study of the presidency.” In 1959 he wrote to Stanley Whiteway, a Pennsylvania resident and donor to Truman’s presidential library, that if young people

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L to R: Truman and buddies back home from The Great War, 1919; Senator Truman in his office, 1942; Stalin and Truman with delegation at Potsdam, 1945.

“do not understand and appreciate what they have it will go the way of the Judges of Isreal [sic], the city states of Greece, the great Roman Republic and the Dutch Republic.” Truman was fascinated by the accomplishments of the founding fathers, whose own study of the history of Greece and other nations had led them to form a republican form of government that was able to avoid the fate of other republics in history: the turn toward dictatorship as a result of corrupt leadership. “How did [the Founders] ever come to do this?” he pondered. And the Constitution had only been amended 22 times, with two bad amendments—Prohibition and the two-term limitation of a president’s term. Although the 22nd amendment, which imposed a two-term limit upon the president, did not apply to Truman, he disliked it for constitutional reasons. He often referred to the Federalist Papers written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to explain and defend the new Constitution. In Truman’s view, a president should be permitted to be elected to as many terms as the people wished. Lesson 2: Democratic government has a moral basis Truman found in history the central lesson of good citizenship: service to others. Familiar with George Washington’s thoughts on the subject of public service, Truman told members of the Reserve Officers Association that “every man who lives under a government that is controlled by the people owes that government certain service. Not only does he owe that service in a military way, if it becomes necessary, but he owes service to his government as a civilian.” Whether at the national, state or local level, one should “serve the United States Government in whatever capacity he is fitted to serve it.” Lesson 3: Find leadership qualities to emulate and to avoid Truman’s reading focused on biography, which provided keys to leadership. In a 1934 autobiographical manuscript written while he was presiding judge of Jackson County (an administrative, not judicial, post), Truman observed that great men’s first victories were won “over themselves and their carnal urges. Self-discipline with all of them came first.” Among those leaders he admired

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were the Roman general Cincinnatus, the Carthaginian general Hannibal, the Persian leader Cyrus the Great, George Washington, and Robert E. Lee. He was not fond of men such as Alexander the Great or Napoleon. “I could never admire a man whose only interest is himself.” Furthermore, leaders had to lead, not follow public whim. Leadership of the kind that Jesus, Moses, and Martin Luther offered was based on right and wrong, not on polls or opinion of the moment. Lesson 4: Recognize internal and external threats to democracy In addition to shaping Harry Truman’s views of democracy, citizenship, and leadership, history helped him understand the challenges to the democratic form of government. Truman was not sanguine about communism and the threat it posed to democracy. He was just as anticommunist as his Republican opponents, but his understanding of history provided a longer view. Plutarch’s Lives gave him the insight that “it was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now... The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.” Truman also was aware of the threat that demagogues and bigotry posed. Bigots and vocal minorities such as the Ku Klux Klan caused trouble because they wanted direct action and did not understand the representative nature of American government. But Truman had faith in the fundamental goodness of the American people. “Common sense usually overcomes the whole thing and it’ll come around alright,” he said. “All demagogues get their come-uppance before they get through.” Lesson 5: Do not trust historians Confident in his own knowledge of history, President Truman had no “court historian” in his administration, unlike President John Kennedy, who had Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and President Lyndon Johnson, who employed Eric Goldman. This was a curious decision, given Truman’s deep interest in history and his lack of a college education and professional training in the subject. It also was an exception to his willingness to solicit and accept advice in almost every other field in which he was not an expert.

But despite Truman’s feelings about professional historians, he agreed to the National Archives’ hiring of one, Philip Brooks, to administer his presidential library, which opened in 1957. In addition, several historians, including Schlesinger, served on the Truman Library Institute staff during Truman’s lifetime. Lesson 6: History is marked by continuity and progress Truman saw continuity in American history; human nature had changed little over the centuries, and the genius of the American Constitution lay in its establishment of checks and balances that preserved the republican form of government against passions— cycles of hysteria—generated and exploited by demagogues. Seeing continuity put his own problems in perspective and allowed him not to overreact. For example, when Truman reflected on press attacks on him, he recalled that Washington, Jefferson, and Jackson, among others, had suffered a similar fate. As he told his cousin, Ethel Noland, he “had it easy by comparison,” even though he did get angry at the media’s treatment of him. Truman saw progress in history. “History is a story of improvement even if there are setbacks.” His optimism was consistent with his faith in progress. “Of course, you’ve got to be an optimist if you are going to try to help the country go forward. There’s no pessimist that ever did anything for the welfare of the world, I don’t care who he was.” Lesson 7: Progress occurs in cycles Truman repeatedly referenced the cycles he saw in American history. On December 29, 1952, Arthur Schlesinger went to Washington, D.C. to pay his respects to the outgoing president. Schlesinger reported that Truman “was very cheerful, scrubbed and natty.” But all was not well in the mind of the president, who was much concerned about the state of civil liberties in the country. He told Schlesinger that he had feared “hysteria” of the kind that always occurred after wars. Truman cited the Citizen Genêt episode after the Revolutionary War, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War, and the A. Mitchell Palmer raids after World War I. He hoped the country might avoid it this time, a reference to the ongoing Korean War. However, the concerns about McCarthyism that Truman expressed to Schlesinger were nowhere to be found in the president’s rather upbeat farewell address less than three weeks later.

During his lectures at Columbia University on April 29, 1959, former President Truman placed McCarthyism within the broader cycles of “witch-hunting” and hysteria that he believed had beset the United States since its earliest history. “There are periods,” he told the students, “in which some demagogue can direct attention to something that’s absolutely good and harmless and make something out of it so he can stir people up for his own welfare and aggrandizement. We’ve just had that recently. We just got through this period of McCarthyism, which was one of the worst that this country ever suffered from.” He warned students that they, too, would face future demagogues. Lesson 8: Each generation must learn history’s lessons Harry Truman was not Pollyanna about what history could teach. He told Merle Miller, “The next generation never learns anything from the previous one until it’s brought home with a hammer.” He added, “I’ve wondered why the next generation can’t profit from the generation before but they never do until they get knocked in the head by experience.” Handed-down wisdom was not accepted until a crisis proved its wisdom. This meant that each generation, in its hubris, had to learn this painful lesson because it did not think that the past had anything useful to teach it. Lesson 9: Individuals matter If Truman had a unifying theory of history, it could be found in his belief that men and women, not historical forces, drove history. From his reading of Great Men and Famous Women and Plutarch’s Lives, Truman concluded that “men made history.” And he had his favorites. Truman’s papers include a list of history-makers, written on U.S. Senate stationery during his short term as vice president. At the top of the list was Alexander the Great. Second was Hannibal, followed by Napoleon, and Stonewall Jackson. Next to each name was the age at which they had assumed power or were at the height of their power. Many were between 25 and 30; Genghis Kahn was “between 44 & 54.” Perhaps Truman, at age 60, was wondering if there was still time to make his mark. As history would prove, the answer was yes. Samuel W. Rushay, Jr., is supervisory archivist at the Truman Library and Museum, where he worked as an archivist from 1993 to1997.

Excerpted and reprinted with permission. Read the complete Prologue article at www.archives.gov.

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Through student internships, value-added memberships, and volunteer opportunities, the Truman Library Institute supports a variety of ways to be involved at our nation's premier presidential library and museum.

Membership Honorary Fellows

Beginning at just $35, Honorary Fellow memberships offer extraordinary benefits, including free unlimited admission to the Truman Library and all participating presidential libraries, discounts in the Museum Store, VIP access to the annual presidential wreath laying ceremony, and an exclusive invitation to the annual Honorary Fellows Night at the Truman Library. TO JOIN, CALL (816) 268-8237.

Many companies will double (or sometimes triple) the value of their employees’ charitable gifts. To find out if your company participates, please contact your human resources office.

Tribute Gifts Gifts made in honor or in memory of a loved one are recognized in the Truman Library Institute’s annual report; recipients receive distinguished notification of your thoughtfulness.

Buck Stops Here Society

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Premier memberships start at $1,000. Benefits include invitations to exhibit openings and exclusive travel opportunities, VIP restrictedaccess tours of the Truman Library’s museum collections area, complimentary tickets to the annual Bennett Forum on the Presidency, additional Museum passes for associates, clients and friends, plus all Honorary Fellows benefits. CALL (816) 268-8237 TO LEARN MORE.

If you have named the Truman Library Institute in your will or estate plan, please let us know so we can welcome you to The Legacy Society. Or call to discuss planned gift options with one of our knowledgeable estate counselors. (816) 268-8246

Gift Memberships Looking for a unique gift? Gift memberships provide year-round access to world-class museum exhibitions and stimulating programs and forums. CALL (816) 268-8237 FOR DETAILS.

Support

Wild About Harry Sponsorships for the Truman Library Institute’s annual fundraising dinner start at $1,000 and provide vital support for the educational programs offered at the Truman Library. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE GALA EVENT, SEE PAGE 23 OR CALL KIM RAUSCH AT (816) 268-8237.

Corporate Sponsorships Sponsorships provide a regional – often national – engine to power your corporate goals. Opportunities include special exhibitions, extended-hour and reduced-admission Museum days, national forums, endowed lecture series and more. TO DISCUSS A CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP CUSTOMIZED FOR YOUR NEEDS, PLEASE CONTACT ALEX BURDEN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AT (816) 268-8243.

Annual Cumulative Giving Society Donors whose annual gifts (Oct. 1 - Sept. 30) meet or exceed $10,000 are invited into the Presidents Inner Circle, where benefits include an exclusive invitation to the annual Presidents Inner Circle Dinner/ Reception, premier recognition in publications and at events, preferred seating at ticketed Truman Library Institute events, and more.

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From guiding tours to assisting in the archives and museum collections, Truman Library volunteers play a vital role and enjoy an annual travel opportunity and recognition banquet. FOR CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES, PLEASE CALL DONNA DENSLOW AT (816) 268-8239.

Internships

Truman Library internships offer distinctive experience to students working toward careers as archivists, historians and museum administrators. TO LEARN MORE, VISIT TRUMANLIBRARY.ORG OR CALL DONNA DENSLOW AT (816) 268-8239.

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2010 Highlights Celebrating Bess The 125th Birthday of First Lady Bess Wallace Truman

60th Anniversary of the Korean War

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Special Exhibition Memories of Korea March 27 – December 31, 2010

11 a.m. | “Young Bess in Hats” 2 p.m. | “Dear Harry…Love Bess” Featuring Clifton Truman Daniel

2010 marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War. Programs and exhibits offered to commemorate this important anniversary include…

Free Thursday Night Korean War Film Series June 24 | MASH (1970) July 1 | Big Jim McLain (1952) July 8 | Pork Chop Hill (1959) July 15 | The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

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Talkin’ Truman Series Every Second Saturday at 11 a.m. February 13 | Young Bess in Hats March 13 | Tales from the Truman Home April 10 | Presidential Praise: Our Presidents and Their Hymns

Korean War Conference Series The Truman Legacy in East Asia: Japan, China and the Two Koreas May 14-15, Key West, Florida

Korea’s Legacy of War: The Two Koreas and Their Future May 27-28, Seoul, Korea

New Documents and Histories: 21st Century Perspectives on the Korean War June 16-17, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Korean Veterans Commemoration Details for this June 2010 event will be announced as available.

And Much More, Including…

Third Annual Honorary Fellows Night at the Truman Library (June 2010) Wild About Harry (See page 23) Howard & Virginia Bennett Forum on the Presidency (Fall 2010)

1949 January 20: Truman is inaugurated for his second term as president. In his inaugural address, he calls for a “bold new program” to help underprivileged peoples of the earth (Point IV Program). August 10: Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, establishing a unified Department of Defense.

1950 June 26: Truman orders U. S. air and sea forces to aid South Korean troops in resisting the Communist forces of North Korea, which had invaded South Korea the day before. Days later, General Douglas MacArthur is put in charge of all U.N. troops in the area. November 1: President Truman is unharmed during an assassination attempt by two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola. A White House police officer and one of the assassins are killed in the attempt. December 6: Truman writes a personal letter to music critic Paul Hume, assailing him for his “lousy review” of a recital given by Truman’s daughter Margaret.

1951 April 11: Truman relieves MacArthur of all posts as commander of American and U. N. forces in the Far East for making statements critical of the government’s military and foreign policies in that area.

1953 January 20: Truman attends the inauguration of President Eisenhower and then leaves by train for Independence, Missouri. Truman begins works on his two-volume memoirs: Year of Decisions (1955) and Years of Trial and Hope (1956).

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Left: Museum docent Jack Perne guides a group of students through The Presidential Years. Middle: SAC volunteers team up annually to decorate the Truman Library for the holidays. Right: The newest members of the 1,000 Club, Doris McCartney (left) and Carolyn Reece, are pictured in the Pentagon during the annual trip for Truman Library volunteers.

Volunteers From the earliest days of the Truman Library, when Harry Truman himself trained the Museum docents, volunteers have played an integral part in the success of his presidential library. In FY09, 80 volunteers contributed 5,663 hours of service in virtually every department – from education to archives, museum docent to marketing support. The following volunteers served the Truman Library in FY09, October 1, 2008 – September 30, 2009. Karen Berry Betty Blatt Paulena Blaylock Loren Boline Harlan Brockman Don Brown Linda Brown Bob Buhr Donna Burgess Jim Cable Doris Caster

Alice & John Chapman Steve Chase Myrle & Jack Chastain Jolene Clark Sandra Colyer Cheryl Compton Amy Crossley Harry Daffer Nell Danner

Judy Dingler Ron Doering Frances Duncan Marjorie Durkee Marietta Feather Judy Fundis Christina Golding Laurie Gronskei Leslie Hagensen JoAnn Hatch Jim Howk

Dolores Hunter Ruby James Susan Jones Jack Kammert Mary Keerns Lani Kirsch Jo Kleinman Linda Kobe Joan Kolich Kathy Lee Beverly Lindsey

Dena Love Virginia Maglich Janeal Matheson Doris McCartney Jean & Cliff McCormick JoAnn McInnes Joan & Tim Meng Amy Moorman Bill Naylor Pat Nickle

Katherine Novak Ric & Sara Nyman Curt Oldroyd Jack Perne Mildred Polc Bob Potter Carolyn Reece Barb Schmitt Jamie Schwarz Larry Sebby Don Smith

Pat Spillman Bill Strautman Judy Sturgess Mike Summers Bob Tobia Christl Webster Arlene & Karl Welch Rita White Eileen Wilcox Joann & Bob Wilson

1,000 Club Members The following volunteers have contributed a minimum of 1,000 hours of service. Congratulations to these dedicated members of the 1,000 Club. Don Brown Steve Chase Amy Crossley

Nell Danner Ron Doering Frances Duncan

Joann Hatch Dolores Hunter Mary Keerns

Jo Kleinman Kathy Lee Doris McCartney

Bill Naylor Jack Perne Mildred Polc

Carolyn Reece Don Smith Arlene Welch

Karl Welch Bob Wilson Joann Wilson

Internship Program With support from the Truman Library Institute, the internship program of the Truman Library offers distinguished experience to students working toward careers as archivists, historians and museum administrators. FY09 Interns Sarah Bell

Joyce Burner Abby Day

Louise Hilton Evan Holland

Will Hoyt Kate Morton

Philip Nicolaus Paige Pennington

Shawn Peters Barry Skelton

Jason Wilhelmsen

TO LEARN ABOUT VOLUNTEER AND INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES, PLEASE VISIT TRUMANLIBRARY.ORG.

1955 May 8: On his 71st birthday, Truman breaks ground for the construction of a privately financed Harry S. Truman Library building. August 12: The Presidential Libraries Act is signed, authorizing the General Services Administration to accept the papers of U. S. presidents, and the land, buildings, and equipment that are offered for a “Presidential archival depository.”

1956 April 21: Truman attends the marriage of his daughter, Mary Margaret, to E. Clifton Daniel, Jr., well-known newspaperman, in Trinity Episcopal Church, Independence, Missouri. Four grandsons will be born.

96 May 11 - July 3: Harry and Bess tour Europe, meeting with a number of European leaders, including Winston Churchill and Pope Pius XII. Truman receives numerous honors, including an honorary degree from Oxford University. July 6: Truman participates in the dedication of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.

1960 Truman publishes Mr. Citizen, his postpresidential memoir. October 8 November 4: Truman conducts a vigorous national speaking tour in support of presidential candidate John F. Kennedy.

1963 May 29: A large statue of Truman is unveiled in Athens, Greece, commemorating Truman as one of Greece’s “greatest benefactors.” November 26: Truman attends the funeral of President Kennedy and meets afterward with Eisenhower, affecting, to the press, a final “reconciliation” between these two former political adversaries.

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REVENUES & CONTRIBUTIONS $1,403,380 Contributions (non-campaign) includes corporate, foundation and individual giving, endowment, bequests, grants and sponsorships

$806,638 Truman Working Office Campaign $154,536 Investment Income $111,572 Entrepreneurial Ventures includes public and education program revenues

$10,602 Misc Other TOTAL $2,486,728

EXPENSES $848,148 Programs, Exhibits, Education & Outreach $1,443,993 Capital Improvements and Preventative Maintenance* $345,823 Fundraising $206,347 Administration TOTAL $2,844,311 * Institute utilizes cash basis of accounting rather than accrual -$357,580 campaign deficit fully covered by gifts raised in previous years. Operating net without capital expenses was $2,583

1964 May 8: Truman becomes the first former president to address the U. S. Senate while it is in formal session. The Senate honors him on his 80th birthday. July 30: President Johnson signs the Medicare bill at the Truman Library. Mr. and Mrs. Truman will receive Medicare registration cards numbers one and two in January 1966. On his Medicare application form, Truman writes “Farmer” on the line next to “Former Occupation.”

1966 July 4: Truman makes his last appearance as a speaker at the eighth annual July 4th celebration on the Truman Library grounds.

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December 29: With Bess, Margaret, and son-in-law E. Clifton Daniel, Truman tours his presidential library for the last time.

December 26: Truman dies at the age of 88.

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West Wing Council Commerce Bank Jonathan Kemper Betty and Richard C.† Crumpton Jill and Marshall Dean, Jr. Shirley and Barnett Helzberg Mary and John Hunkeler Kansas City Power & Light Elizabeth Danforth Nancy and Herb Kohn Barbara and Allen Lefko Susan and John McMeel Barbara and Bill Nelson Jeannette Nichols J. B. Reynolds Fdn. - Phil Bixby Susan and Tuck Spaulding Margie and Keith Weber UMB Bank, N.A. - Clyde Wendel Cheryl and Bernard Williams

Presidential Aides Mary and Alan Atterbury George K. Baum Fdn. Jonathan Baum Joan and Bert Berkley Marcia and Eliot Berkley Rae Block † Harvey Bodker Elinor Borenstine Mary Shaw Branton Jane and Dick Bruening Joni and Thornton Cooke, II Bunni and Paul Copaken Jerry and Vernon Davidson Sam Devinki and Mary Stahl Wayne DeForge Nancy and John Dillingham Ruth and Hugh Evans Jo Ann Field Sandra and Gregory Galvin

Jeanne and Larry Gates June and Sam Hamra Connie and Harry Jonas Kathleen and Richard Kirkendall Pamela and Louis LaMarra Jeanie and Bob Latz Robert Lyons Patricia and Michael Manners George Manos Molly McGee Jill and Tom McGee, Jr. Larry McMullen Ronay and Richard Menschel Janet and Marshall Miller Cappy and Peter Powell Joyce and Donald Rumsfeld Miriam and Daniel Scharf Rose Stolowy Tawani Fdn. - Edward Tracy Jean and Don Wagner

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Mr. and Mrs. Morton I. Sosland Spaulding Family Fdn. Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehuduh Truman Heartland Community Fdn. UMB Bank, N.A. Mr. and Mrs. William D. Wagner

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Donor Honor Roll $100,000 to $499,999 Anonymous Donor Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Johnston Ewing Marion Kauffman Fdn. National Endowment for the Humanities $50,000 to $99,999 Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Hall, Sr. William T. Kemper Fdn. James B. Nutter & Company Mr. and Mrs. Norman Polsky Mr. and Mrs. John J. Sherman $25,000 to $49,999 DST Systems, Inc. Courtney S. Turner Charitable Trust $10,000 to $24,999 Mary Shaw Branton & Family

Hallmark Cards, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Barnett C. Helzberg, Jr. Hesed Fdn. Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Mr. and Mrs. Milton P. Kayle KC Impact Fund R. C. Kemper Charitable Trust and Fdn. Mr. and Mrs. Allen L. Lefko Mrs. Barbara Hall Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. $5,000 to $9,999 McDonnell Andrews McMeel Universal Fdn. University of Missouri at Anonymous Donor Columbia BlueCross BlueShield Mr. and Mrs. William C. Nelson of Kansas City Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Buchbinder Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Powell Mr. and Mrs. William M. Reisler Centerpoint Medical Center Commerce Bank of Kansas City Mrs. Gloria Schusterman Mr.† and Mrs. Richard Crumpton Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Dean, Jr. Solberg Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Evans The Sosland Fdn. CPS Fdn. Francis Family Fdn. Dr. and Mrs. John D. Hunkeler Inergy Kansas City Southern M.R. and Evelyn Hudson Fdn. The McDonnell Fdn. Novak Birks, P.C. Edwin W. Pauley Fdn. J. B. Reynolds Fdn.

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Mr. and Mrs. Vaden Bales Mr. and Mrs. Bryant P. Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Clay R. Bauske Dr. and Mrs. Michael T. Benson Mrs. Gloria Block Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Bonar Dr. and Mrs. A. Michael Borkon Mr. and Mrs. James Brunkhardt Mrs. Ina J. Bryan Mr. and Mrs. George Buchman Mr. and Mrs. William Bundschu Mr. and Mrs. Alex Burden $500 to $999 Mr. and Mrs. Gene Cable Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Adams Brig. General and Mrs. Jack L. Mrs. Gerald D. Aurbach Capps Ms. Sara Deubner and The Hon. and Mrs. Harold L. Dr. Linton T. Bayless Caskey Belagroup LLC Mr. Edward S. Chandler, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. David H. Bennett Mr. John M. Purcell and Mr. and Mrs. Willard L. Boyd Dr. Teri Lea Chandler-Purcell The Hon. Joe Pierron and Dr. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Coble Diana Carlin Pierron Mrs. Patricia Couper Mr. and Mrs. Rudy De Leon Dr. and Mrs. Leodis Davis Mr. and Mrs. Ron Eiman Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Devine Dr. and Mrs. Michael Fedotin Ronald Downey Construction Mrs. Florence M. Fordemwalt Mr. and Mrs. Don R. Elliott Mr. and Mrs. James W. Foreman Mr. George M. Elsey Mr. and Mrs. William D. Grant Embarq Matching Gifts Program Miss Hortense Greenley Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Fischbach Mrs. Frances Flowers and Mr. Mr. Jeff Fortier William Haegele Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Garner Mr. and Mrs. John D. Hickok, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Fred M. Gilhousen Mr. and Mrs. Greg Julian Mr. and Mrs. James Goetz Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce J. Krigel Goldsmith Mr. and Mrs. Drew Loboda Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Greiner The Hon. and Mrs. Michael W. Dr. and Mrs. Robert Hanson Manners Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Haverty Ms. Elaine P. Meitus Health Benefits Professionals Mrs. Alice Miller Mr. John C. Henshaw Rev. Wilson D. Miscamble Mr. and Mrs. Mike Hobick Mitchell Capital Management Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hoenig Company Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Howe Dr. and Mrs. Dale A. Neuman Mr. and Mrs. Graham T. Hunt Dr. and Mrs. Donald Potts City of Independence Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Reed Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Ireland Mr. and Mrs. R. Scott Smith Mr. and Mrs. David F. Jensen Mrs. Jane Taylor Mr. and Mrs. George E. Kapke Mrs. Louis W. Truman Kimak’s Pest Control, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. William B. Kort $250 to $499 Mr. and Mrs. Steve Lanard Mr. and Mrs. William J. Amend The Richard M. & Carol H. Levin Anonymous Donors Fdn. Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Atlas Mr. Richard M. Levin

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Lyons Mr. and Mrs. Paul Martin Ms. Sue E. Masica Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Mathews Mr. and Mrs. Albert P. Mauro, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. David E. Mayta Mr. Dennis Taylor and Dr. Bridget McCandless Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. McCartney Mr. and Mrs. Ted McGrade Dr. and Mrs. Gerald McManus Mr. and Mrs. Harold S. Melcher Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mentzer Dr. and Mrs. James E. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Miller Mr. and Mrs. Phil Miller Ms. Melanie R. Moentmann Dr. and Mrs. Mark C. Myron Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nadeau Mr. and Mrs. Ron Nolan Mr. and Mrs. Bernard O’Donnell Mr. and Mrs. Howard B. Penrod Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Raney Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reintjes, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. David N. Revier Mrs. Ann H. Rich Ms. Mary H. Roe Mr. and Mrs. James F. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Mike Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Gerald D. Scallions Dr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Scharf Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Schmelzer, III Ms. Lee Williams and Mr. Brent Schondelmeyer Mr. and Mrs. Bob Scott Mr. Jonathan J. Seagle Mr. and Mrs. Maurice L. Smith Dr. and Mrs. Wilber Spalding, Jr. Ms. Barbara Paddock and Mr. Jordan Sprechman Stepp & Rothwell, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Thornton Dr. David Tillema Ms. Margaret Tompkins Mrs. Patricia Uhlmann Consul General Sharon Valasek Mr. and Mrs. Joel D. Vile Mr. and Mrs. David Vittor Ms. Carol Curtis and Mr. Edward B. Wallace Mr. and Mrs. Fred Walters Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Weir

Dr. and Mrs. Robert K. Weir Mr. and Mrs. Philip M. Wertz Professor Caroline H. Wilkins Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Woods Mr. Robert S. Thompson and Dr. Mary M. Wurtz Mr. and Mrs. Robert Zeldin Mr. and Mrs. Karl Zobrist $100 to $249 Dr. Melvin Abend Mr. H. W. Abplanalp Mr. and Mrs. Byron T. Adams Mr. and Mrs. Travis M. Adams Ms. Joan Alders Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Algaier Ms. Suzanne E. Allen Dr. Carol Anderson Dr. Linnea M. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Rod Anderson Anonymous Donors Ms. and Mr. Kathryn Ashenbrenner Mr. and Mrs. Russell E. Atha, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Banes Mrs. June Beaver Mr. David Z. Beecher Mr. and Mrs. Irvin V. Belzer Mr. Jerome Berko Ms. Darcy A. Howe and Mr. John S. Black Mr. and Mrs. David Blanchard Mr. and Mrs. Curtis T. Bliss Blue Ridge Bank and Trust Co. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Bogacz Ms. Carolyn Bond Dr. and Mrs. Christopher A. Borman Mrs. Lewis J. Bratt Mr. and Mrs. Arnold H. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Bill M. Burch Ms. Donna Burgess Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cable The Hon. Victor E. Callahan Mr. Louis Capozi Mr. John W. Chalfant Mr. Wayne Chaney Mr. Ted Chanock Dr. and Mrs. Paul J. Chase Ms. Patricia Chasnoff Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Chiles Mr. Greg Cusack and Mr. Robert L. Claassen Mr. and Mrs. Earl P. Cleveland

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Mr. and Mrs. Norman B. Cobb Mr. and Mrs. Sanford L. Cohn Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Cohn Mrs. Roberta Coker Mr. Byron Constance Ms. Therese A. Ciolek and Mr. George S. Cornish Mr. and Mrs. Frank Correl Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Costello Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Crimmins Mr. and Mrs. Darrell A. Cross Mr. and Mrs. Richard Davis Mr. and Mrs. Larry Delmont Mr. and Mrs. Barry Denslow Mr. and Mrs. Merle Deterding Mr. and Mrs. Carl DiCapo Mr. Richard H. W. Dillard Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Doering Mr. Michael B. Downey Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Downing Mr. and Mrs. Mo DuFour The Hon. and Mrs. Michael S. Dukakis Mrs. Courtney R. Earnest Dr. and Mrs. Paul M. Edwards Mr. and Mrs. George L. Eib Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Elfter Mrs. Olga M. Engel Mr. Robert L. Engel Ms. Marcia Rodgers and Mr. Steve Everly Mr. George M. Ewing, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Farnsworth Mr. and Mrs. David E. Ferguson Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Fleming Dr. and Mrs. Barry L. Flinchbaugh Mr. and Mrs. Dana Forrester Mr. and Mrs. J. Richard Franklin Mrs. Helen L. French Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Friedman Mr. and Mrs. David Gaebler The Hon. and Mrs. Jack E. Gant Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gilson Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ginsburg Ms. Anne Gobi Mr. Nathan Golden Commissioner Ronald Gravino Ms. Melissa Green Mr. and Mrs. Richard Greenberg Mr. and Mrs. James Greenwood Mr. and Mrs. Gerard J. Grimaldi Mr. and Mrs. Ruvane E. Grossman Mr. and Mrs. Jeff B. Hanes Mr. and Mrs. Larry L. Haynes Dr. Mary Ann Heiss Mrs. Paul H. Henson Ms. Mary Herrick Mr. and Mrs. Jerry N. Hess Mrs. Walter Hiersteiner Mr. and Mrs. Edgar G. Hinde, Jr. Mr. Jerome W. Hirsch Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Holman Ms. Mamie Hughes Mr. Douglass Hunt Dr. and Mrs. John E. Ingram Mrs. Ann Jacobson

Dr. and Mrs. Larry S. Jacobson Mr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Johnson Mrs. Judith C. Johnson Dr. Niel M. Johnson Mr. Stephen B. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Jonathan Mr. and Mrs. Oskar Kaaring Ms. Susan Kahn City of Kansas City, Missouri Mrs. Connie Katowitz Mr. and Mrs. Ward A. Katz Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Breene M. Kerr Mrs. Dee Dee King Dr. Robert E. Kleiger Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Klein Mr. and Mrs. John P. Knable, II Mr. and Mrs. Mark Koontz Mr. and Mrs. Scott B. Lakin Dr. and Mrs. Burnell Landers The Hon. Donald H. Lane Mr. and Mrs. Orville M. Larson Mr. Tom Lawler Mrs. Lisa Lefkovitz Mrs. William Levi Mr. and Mrs. Howard Levitan Dr. and Mrs. Keith M. Lindgren Mr. Mike Lochmann Dr. and Mrs. Edwin T. Long Mr. David Lonie Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. MacAvoy Mr. and Mrs. Jerry M. Madison Mr. and Mrs. Ross P. Marine Ms. Joanna M. Martin Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Martin Dr. Donald McCandless Mrs. Doris A. McCartney Mr. and Mrs. Clifford McCormick Mrs. Anne McGee Mrs. Joseph J. McGee, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. W. Scott McGinness Dr. and Mrs. Harold McNabb, Jr. Ms. Kay Menzel Merrill Lynch & Company Fdn., Inc. Mr. Robert E. Meyerhoff Mr. and Mrs. John M. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Mnookin Mr. and Mrs. Elton M. Montgomery Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Morgan Mr. and Mrs. John Moseman Mr. and Mrs. Bill J. Naylor Dr. and Mrs. Philip Needleman Professor Anna K. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Jerome S. Nerman Dr. and Mrs. Steven M. Neuse Ms. Laura D. Nolte Dr. and Mrs. John E. Offutt Mr. James R. Ogle, Jr. Ms. Karen DeLuccie and Mr. Joseph F. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara Mr. and Mrs. Bjorn E. Olsson Ms. Phyllis Oswald Mr. I. Ozar Mr. and Mrs. Steve S. Pack Dr. Lillian G. Pardo and Dr. Manuel P. Pardo Mr. and Mrs. Myron L. Paris

Mrs. Patricia A. Parr Ms. Becky Blades and Mr. Cary Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Moritz Pick Mr. William R. Piper Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Pistilli Dr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Poch Mr. Douglas R. Price Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Prince Mrs. Joan R. Quigley Ms. Eileen Quint Mrs. Jackson P. Ravenscroft Judge and Mrs. Edward Reed, Jr. Mr. James F. Reed The Hon. and Mrs. James R. Reinhard Mr. and Mrs. Blaine E. Rieke Mrs. Marilyn P. Rinker Ms. Mildred W. Roesler-Ryan Mr. and Mrs. William M. Roth Mr. and Mrs. Alfred F. Rothschild Mr. Ernest Rubenstein Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Rushing The Hon. Howard F. Sachs Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell H. Salter Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Salter Mr. and Mrs. Daniel D. Sawyer Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Schechter Mr. and Mrs. John Schmiedeler Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Schnare Mr. Jim Schroeder and The Hon. Patricia S. Schroeder Mr. and Mrs. Ken Schumacher Mr. John A. Scully Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Sebby Dr. Arlene E. Segal Mrs. Elizabeth Seippel Mr. Thomas Sellmeyer Mr. Christopher Senior Mr. and Mrs. J. Stan Sexton Ms. Opal L. Winebrenner and Mr. Michael Shields Ms. Margaret E. Shouse Mrs. Elaine Sight Ms. Margaret A. Simmons Mr. and Mrs. James R. Slater Dr. Harold I. Smith Mr. William G. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Brian K. Snyder Mr. and Mrs. Floyd R. Sowers Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Speca The Spectra Energy Fdn. Matching Gifts Program Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Stern Mr. William T. Stewart, Jr. Mrs. L. R. Stiffelman Mr. and Mrs. Brad Stratton Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Strickland Mr. and Mrs. H. Kenneth Swearingen Mr. Marvin S. Szneler Mr. and Mrs. James O. Talbot Mr. and Mrs. H. Stephen Talge Dr. and Mrs. Marc K. Taormina Mr. Stephen H. Timmons Toledo Federation of Teachers Local 250 Ms. Mary L. Turner

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Ms. Stephanie Ulsh Mr. and Mrs. Grant T. Van Duzee Dr. Lisa Vansaghi and Mr. Tom Vansaghi Mr. and Mrs. Michael Vaughan Mr. and Mrs. Joel Vickers Ms. Rosemarie Vohsen Ms. Julie Ann Waddell Mr. and Mrs. Gary G. Wallace Mr. and Mrs. John E. Waller Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Weary Mr. and Mrs. Cooper Weeks Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Westhoff Ms. Jeanne P. Whitman Mr. and Mrs. John R. Whitmore Mr. and Mrs. James M. Whitworth, Jr. The Hon. and Mrs. John Wildenthal Mr. and Mrs. Don Willcoxon Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Williams SP5 and Mrs. Aubrey E. Williamson, Jr. Mr. James G. Woodward Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Yonke

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan E. Baum Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Beal Mr. and Mrs. Morton Bearman Dr. and Mrs. Charles Becker Mr. and Mrs. Raymond H. Beikman Dr. Ernest L. Bergman Ms. Nancy Berke Mr. and Mrs. William S. Berkley Mr. and Mrs. George L. Berlacher Mr. Charles M. Berlau Mr. and Mrs. Bryan B. Berlin Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Bertoncin Mr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Bettlach Mr. and Mrs. Roger J. Bilen Mr. and Mrs. John C. Bills Mr. Alan Black Mr. Maynard M. Blackwood Ms. Betty D. Blatt Mr. and Mrs. Larry N. Blick Ms. Wilma Bloom Ms. Carol R. Blucher Mr. David Bludworth Mr. and Mrs. Curtis L. Bock Ms. Colleen Boeding $99 or less Mr. Loren Boline Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Aaron, Sr. Mr. Rick Borges Mrs. Oca Mae Abernathy Mr. and Mrs. James Borthwick Mr. Everett Och and Mr. Leslie P. Boston Ms. Teresa Abramowski Mr. Ralph Thomas Bota Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Adamo, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene A. Bova Ms. Carol A. Deakyne and Ms. Diana K. Boylls Mr. John E. Adams Mrs. and Mr. Dan Brant Mr. and Mrs. John E. Alldredge Mr. Douglas M. Brattebo Mr. Ellis E. Allen Dr. Walter Brayman Mr. and Mrs. William L. Allen Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Brazil Mr. William W. Allen Rev. and Mrs. Robert A. Brennan Mr. and Mrs. Francis Amoroso Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Brewer Mr. Donald D. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bright Ms. E. Vernice Anderson Mr. Harlan E. Brockman Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd F. Anderson Mrs. Ellen Broderick Ms. Lorna Anderson Dr. Mark J. Brodkey Mr. and Mrs. Shawn M. Mr. and Mrs. Les Brokke Anderson Mr. Arthur W. Brooks, Jr. Mrs. C. J. Anderton Mr. and Mrs. Philip C. Brooks, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Andrews Mr. Rodger L. Brough Mr. William T. Anton, III Mrs. Betty M. Brown Mr. and Mrs. William L. Atwood Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brown Major Christopher Austin Mr. Dallas E. Brown, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. James D. Austin Mr. and Mrs. David Brown Mr. and Mrs. Bipin N. Avashia Mr. and Mrs. Glenn E. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Aylward Mr. and Mrs. James W. Brown, III Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bacic Mr. and Mrs. Jerry G. Brown Dr. B. Joyce Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Randy C. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Barry Bailey Ms. and Mr. Tom Brown Mr. and Mrs. William W. Baker Mr. Theodore Brown, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David E. Balducchi Judge Wesley E. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Richard Baldwin Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bruner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Balka Mr. Jeffrey Bruns Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Bardsley Mr. Frank L. Buchan Mr. and Mrs. Lee B. Barewin Mr. and Mrs. William Burden, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Barhorst Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Burks Mr. Robert Barry Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Burnup Dr. and Mrs. Harold F. Bass, Jr. Mrs. Beulah J. Burrus Mr. and Mrs. James D. Bastin Mr. and Mrs. Riley L. Burrus Mr. Robert S. Bates Dr. and Mrs. V. Frederick Burry, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Batts Dr. and Mrs. Darrel Cady Ms. Joan E. Bauer Dr. Elwyn L. Cady, Jr.

Mr. Jerry F. Caligiuri Mr. and Mrs. James C. Callinan Drs. Greta and Marvin Camel Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Campbell Dr. and Mrs. Robin R. Canterbury Mr. Daniel J. Carden Ms. Nicki Cardwell Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Carey Ms. Judith Ann Carey Ms. Rebecca Carlson Mr. and Mrs. James P. Carolus Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Carrozzo Ms. Chelsea Cassell Mr. and Mrs. Jim W. Cassidy Mr. Earl K. Cavanah Mr. and Mrs. Eldred Childs Mr. Leo M. Chop Mr. Mark E. Chop Mrs. Irene A. Christiansen Mr. and Mrs. Richard Allen Christman Mr. and Mrs. Terry L. Chronister Ms. Barbara Churchman Dr. Anna Cienciala CIGNA Matching Gifts Program Mr. and Mrs. Foster Clark Mr. and Mrs. Harry Clark, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Clark Mr. and Mrs. William M. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Milton C. Clarke Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Clemons Ms. Mary A. Closser Ms. Jane Cogan Mr. Jules Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Cohn Ms. Bernice I. Coleman Mr. David E. Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Coleman Mr. William J. Collins Commerce Bank of St. Joseph, Missouri Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Connelly Mr. and Mrs. Martin M. Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Dan C. Cotton Mr. and Mrs. Hardin C. Cox Mr. and Mrs. Ray T. Cox Mrs. Eugenia R. Crain Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Crider Mr. and Mrs. Joel Crockett The Honorable and Mrs. G. L. Crystal Mr. and Mrs. Geral Culp Mrs. Regina Smith Culver Mr. and Mrs. John T. Curry Mr. Art Curtis Mrs. Gayla Curtis-Wingfield Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. Daddona Mr. Jon Dale Mr. and Mrs. William H. Danforth Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Danner Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Dauer Mr. and Mrs. James C. Davidson Mr. and Mrs. Chris L. Davis Major and Mrs. Douglas J. Davis Mr. Kenneth P. Davis Ms. Abby Day Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Decker

Professor and Mrs. Wayne L. Decker Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Dees Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Deluce Mr. John H. Dengler Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas E. DeNigris Ms. Carolyn M. Detillier Mr. Nicholas A. Di Blasio Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dick Mr. and Mrs. Leo D. Dickey Mr. John Dickhute Mr. and Mrs. David F. Dickson Mrs. Martha Dillman Ms. Amy Disch Mr. Terry Gratz and Ms. Erica A. Dobreff Mr. and Mrs. Youngsik Dokko Mrs. Shirley C. Donaldson Dr. and Mrs. Donald W. Donath Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Donath Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Donnelly Mr. and Mrs. Craig Doty Ms. Hazel A. Douglas Mr. and Mrs. Harold Draper, III Mrs. Adele S. Dresner Dr. and Mrs. George M. Drew Mr. Walter V. Duane Mr. Mark Durbin and Mrs. Ellen Durbin Dr. and Mrs. James R. Durig Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Dusing Mr. William S. Eastberg Mr. and Mrs. Lowell H. Easter Mr. and Mrs. Bert Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Edwards Mr. Jason A. Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Ehrenpreis Dr. and Mrs. Gustave Eisemann Mr. Mark Eisemann and Ms. Leslie Mark Mr. Robert L. Eller and Ms. Mary Vincent Mr. Charles S. Ellington Mr. and Mrs. John W. Elliott Mr. and Mrs. Burt K. Ellis Mrs. Penny Mast and Mr. Harry V. Ellis Mr. and Mrs. William S. Embury Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Epsten Mr. Hotavio Escamilla Mr. Gregory E. Eufinger, Jr. Ms. Henrietta Fair Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. John Fatz Mrs. Helen A. Feiereisen Mr. Michael D. Feiereisen Mr. and Mrs. Burton M. Fendelman Mr. and Mrs. B. Van Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. John T. Ferrell Mr. Michael P. Ferrell Dr. Robert H. Ferrell Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ferro Mrs. Betty T. Finkelstein Ms. Marjorie Finley Mrs. Mary Faye Fischer Mr. Roger Fisher

Ms. Lora Hackman Fitzgerald Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Fleischhauer Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Fleming Mrs. Jacqueline S. Fleschman Ms. Margaret L. Fleschman Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Fox Mr. and Mrs. Tim Frame Mr. and Mrs. Roger J. Francis Ms. Randi Frank Mr. and Mrs. Roger Franklin The Hon. and Mrs. Thomas J. Frawley Professor and Mrs. Richard M. Fried Mr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Fried Dr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Friedland Miss Luella E. Friend Ms. Vesta Frizzell Mrs. Carole Fulk Dr. Connel R. Fullenkamp Mr. and Mrs. Mark Fuller Mrs. Henrietta M. Fullerton Mr. and Mrs. Rick E. Fullerton Ms. Norene Gaines Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Gall Dr. Robert E. Gamer Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Gelfand Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gerchick Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Getman Mr. and Mrs. Douglas N. Ghertner Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Gibbs Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Gibson, Jr. Ms. Ruth K. Gieschen Mr. and Mrs. John R. Gilbertson Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Gilmartin Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Glenn Mr. Steven D. Goers Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Goldstein Mr. Allan L. Goode Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Goodell Professor Craufurd D. Goodwin Mr. and Mrs. Dwayne M. Goodwin Mr. Steve Gordin Ms. Patricia L. Gore Mr. and Mrs. William Gossman Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Gottlieb Dr. and Mrs. Henry F. Graff Dr. and Mrs. Keith G. Grafing Mr. and Mrs. Loeb H. Granoff Mr. Paul R. Grass Sgt. John Gray Mr. and Mrs. Allen H. Green Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Green Ms. Louise Greenfield Mr. Seymour D. Greenstone Mr. Norman Greer Mr. and Mrs. C. Philip Griffin Mr. Herb Gross Mrs. Marilyn J. Guetlich Mr. and Mrs. Keith Gustin Dr. and Mrs. Michael D. Hagen Ms. Norma R. Hagerty Mr. Wayne A. Haglund Mr. Paul Hahn

Dr. and Mrs. James M. Hale Mr. Richard E. Hale Mr. C. Francis Hales Dr. and Mrs. Alonzo L. Hamby Ms. Gretchen W. Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. Major D. Hammett Mr. and Mrs. David Hammond Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Hanover Mr. and Mrs. George Hanson, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Harbert Ms. Barbara A. Hare Mr. and Mrs. Kevin L. Hargett Mr. and Mrs. James C. Harlan Mr. Robert C. Harpool Dr. Connie K. Harris Mr. and Mrs. Gary W. Harris Mr. and Mrs. Wendell R. Hathhorn Mrs. Judith A. Hauck Dr. William E. Hauser Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Hawks Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Hay Mr. and Mrs. John K. Hayden Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. Heacock Drs. James and Maridella Heiman Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hering Mr. and Mrs. Gene Herman Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Herman Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Herndon Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. Hershey Mr. Albert A. Owen and Ms. Juarenne Hester Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Hetrick Mr. and Mrs. Tom Heuertz Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Hibbeler Mr. Dennis Ragen and Ms. Christine Hickman Mrs. Doris M. Hickson Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Higginbotham Ms. Joan Hilger-Mullen Mrs. James T. Hill, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hill Mrs. Helen L. Hilliard Hillyard, Inc. Mr. Les Hinmon Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hintz Mr. Gordon S. Hodgkins Mrs. Colene S. Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Barry Hofstetter Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Hogarty Mr. Richard G. Hollow Ms. Phyllis Holter Dunn Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Holzle Mr. James R. Homan Dr. and Mrs. Michael P. Homenick Ms. Loraine Honeywell Mr. and Mrs. Clifford R. Hope, Jr. Ms. Gerlinde M. Hopkins Ms. Cindy Horn Mrs. Millie Horn Mrs. Jane A. Howard Mr. and Mrs. John W. Howard Mrs. Martha Howard Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Howard Mr. and Mrs. John Howland Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hubby

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Hughes Mr. and Mrs. William J. Huhmann Mr. J. Wells Hull Mr. and Mrs. Arlan L. Irwin Professor and Mrs. Dan N. Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Vernie E. Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Herbert R. Jacobson Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd W. Jaffe Mr. and Mrs. James R. Jahnz, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. William J. James Mr. and Mrs. Mike Jancek Ms. Adell J. Janzen Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Jarvis Mr. Jay R. Jennings, II Mr. and Mrs. Russell J. Johns Mrs. Catherine D. Johnson Ms. Wendy Frieman and Dr. David E. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. John Johnston Mr. David M. Jones Mr. John P. Jones Ms. Paula L. Jones Mr. R. Michael Jones Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Jones Mr. Tommy C. Jones Mr. Thomas L. Jumps Mr. Edward Junk Mr. and Mrs. Philip Kaluza Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kander Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kandt Mr. Theodore E. Kapala Mr. and Mrs. Bernard L. Kapell Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Sumner Z. Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Sidney M. Karsh Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kaseff Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Katz Mr. Homer Kay Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Keeland Ms. Joyce L. Keeler Mr. and Mrs. James E. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Kennedy Mr. John L. Kerr Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Kiely Mr. and Mrs. Kurt L. Killen Ms. Kyunghyang Park and Mr. Byong Moon Kim Mr. Dale N. Kindred Ms. Shelley King Mr. and Mrs. D. Jack Klein Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kleinman Mr. and Mrs. William Klier Mr. Lloyd R. Knox Mr. John Gilluly and Mrs. Grace Kohan Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Koirtyohann Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Kokjer Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Konort Mrs. Margaret Koontz Mr. Charles H. Kopke Ms. Irene Kovac Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Krahenbuhl Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Kranitz Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Kratchman Mr. Eric M. Kratty

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Ms. Anna B. Kurzweil Mr. and Mrs. Ben Kutler Ms. Barbara M. Kuzdzol Professor Virginia J. Laas Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Lacey Mr. and Mrs. Charles Laitner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders R. Lambert, Jr. Mrs. Leona G. Lambert-Suchet Ms. Deborah Lane Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Lane Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Langford Mr. and Mrs. Asher C. Langworthy, Jr. Mr. Leo R. Lapierre Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Larson James E. Larson, Ph.D. Ms. Linda Adams and Mr. Ken Larson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Laskey Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Latare Ms. Pamela M. Lautsch Mr. and Mrs. Carl W. Leaman Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Leban Dr. and Mrs. Bryan F. LeBeau Mr. and Mrs. Philip G. LeDuc Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Lee Mr. and Mrs. Myung Woong Lee Mr. Steven G. Lee Mr. Jean LePage Mr. Meyer Lerner Dr. and Mrs. Gregory D. Lessig Mr. and Mrs. James D. Lewis Mr. John Lewis Mr. Harry Lindback Brigadier General Beverly S. Lindsey Dr. Malcolm E. Linville, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene C. Lipsky Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Liska Mr. and Mrs. David D. Lodwick Mr. and Mrs. Albert Loncaric Mrs. Betty M. Long Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lorimer Mr. and Mrs. William R. Lorimer Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Loven Mr. and Mrs. John D. Lowrey Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Luetjen Mr. and Mrs. Raymond B. Luhnow, Jr. Mrs. Lily Lumpp

Mr. and Mrs. Glenn T. Lunceford Mr. Glenn S. Lunden Mr. and Mrs. Loren F. Lundy Dr. and Mrs. Harold H. Lurie Mr. and Mrs. Franklin R. Lyon Mr. Michael Lyons Dr. and Mrs. Jim MacLean Mr. and Mrs. Dale Maginness Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. Mahurin Mr. and Mrs. Larry G. Mallin Mr. and Mrs. Mel Mallin Mr. and Mrs. John F. Maloney Mr. and Mrs. Jason A. Malott Mr. Timothy Malpede Mr. and Mrs. Ken C. Manqueros Mrs. Lynnly Marcotte Mr. and Mrs. Henry I. Marder Mr. Ken Marker Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Marnett Mr. Edward E. Marshall Dr. Robert L. Marshall Mr. Herbert W. Martin Mr. and Mrs. John T. Massman Mr. J. Randall Mast Mr. and Mrs. Edward Matheny, Jr. Ms. Dee Mathews Miss Barbara Ann Maxwell Mr. Bill Mayes Mr. and Mrs. Paul McCarron Mr. Neal McCleary Mr. and Mrs. William J. McDonald Mr. and Mrs. L. S. McDowell Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. McFarlane Mr. and Mrs. Gerald McKiernan Ms. Dorothy C. McKinley Ms. Cynthia McNabb Miss Connie C. McQuain Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. McShane, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kevin R. Meade Ms. Lucinda S. Holmes and Mr. Clifford Meek Mr. and Mrs. William J. Memmer Mr. and Mrs. Jay Menitove Dr. George L. Meshke Mr. Harold Metts Mrs. Patricia J. Michaelson Ms. Nancy Milgram Mrs. R. H. Miller

Dr. and Mrs. Leon F. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Bill Miller Dr. Patricia Miller Mr. Timothy W. Miller Dr. Wilbur H. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Dennis V. Mitchell Dr. Franklin D. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. James P. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Monahan Ms. Marilyn Montgall Mr. and Mrs. Joe R. Moody, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James D. Moore Mrs. Norma J. Moore Mrs. Waunita B. Moore Mrs. Laura Morlan Mr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Morman Dr. and Mrs. J. Harold Morris Mr. and Mrs. John Morrison, III Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Mueller Mr. and Mrs. Jerold W. Mullins Mr. and Mrs. Dick Munzinger Ms. Carol Ice and Mr. Stephen L. Murphy Ms. Elizabeth A. Myers Colonel Charles Nahlik Mrs. Virginia F. Neff Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Nelles Robert P. Newman, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Nickle Mr. Paul Niewrzel Mr. and Mrs. Robert Noe Mr. and Mrs. James C. Noonan Ms. Suzanne K. Nootz Ms. Sarah Henderson and Mr. Aaron M. North Dr. Henrietta Spencer and Mr. Michael Norton NSDAR Mr. James I. Nutter Mr. and Mrs. Ole Nygren Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O’Connor Mr. and Mrs. Brian O’Donnell Mr. and Mrs. David O’Hagan Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Oliver Mr. Duane R. Olsen Mr. Ted Olson Mrs. James C. Olson Ms. Susanna Organic Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ormsby Mr. and Mrs. Claude T. Owen P. E. O. Sisterhood

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Mr. Uldis J. Palde Mrs. Matti Palluconi Mr. Kent I. Palmer Ms. Dorothy C. Parker Mr. and Mrs. Emory C. Parks Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Parrish Mr. and Mrs. F. Dale Parson Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Pashen Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Patinkin Ms. Heather N. Paxton Ms. Linda M. Payne Mr. and Mrs. H. Scott Peck Mr. and Mrs. Chester J. Pelka Cpt. Robert C. Peniston, USN (Ret.) Dr. Charles F. Pennacchio Mr. and Mrs. Robert Perry Dr. Jody L. Peterson Mr. George A. Pickett Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Pierce Mr. and Mrs. Ossean E. Pierson Ms. Donna Pittman Mr. and Mrs. Nick L. Pizzichino Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Ploeger Ms. Mary Elizabeth T. Plyler Dr. and Mrs. Monte M. Poen Dr. and Mrs. Jim C. Pogue Mrs. Dixie Pollard Mr. and Mrs. Steven Potter Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Price, II Mr. and Mrs. Mark F. Prosser CDR and Mrs. Gerald P. Pulley, (Ret.) Mr. and Mrs. Jack B. Putt Mr. and Mrs. David Raffel Mr. Eugene J. Rafferty Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Raney Mr. John A. Rauschkolb Mr. and Mrs. B. John Readey, III Miss Mary Sue Reagan Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Reasoner The Hon. and Mrs. Don Reimal Mr. Loren D. Reuter Dr. and Mrs. Paul Revare Mr. James P. Reynolds Mr. Kyle S. Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. Jack Richardson Col. and Mrs. John Riffle, USAF (Ret.) Rear Admiral and Mrs. J.T. Riker Mr. and Mrs. R. Dean Rinehart Dr. C. Ritchie

Ms. Karen M. Roberts Mr. Steven L. Roberts Dr. and Mrs. David Brian Robertson Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery Robichaud Miss Patricia L. Robins Mr. Beauford W. Robinson Mr. and Mrs. James M. Robinson Dr. Marvin Rogolsky Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rolfe Ms. Sherrill L. Rosen Dr. and Mrs. Gene Ross Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Rostenberg Mr. and Mrs. Howard R. Rothwell Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Rubin Mr. David A. Rubio Ms. Marilyn Rue Mrs. Violet E. Rutledge Mr. Rami Saffarini Ms. Suzanne F. Sailors Sara L. Sale, Ph.D. Mr. Robert T. Salsman The Hon. and Mrs. Stanley J. Salva Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Salz Mr. Richard E. Sandeen Mr. Marvin Sands Mr. and Mrs. David M. Santoli Cpt. and Mrs. Thomas Saul Mr. Keith L. Savastano Mr. John E. Sawyer Mrs. Esther Scarpello Ms. Marilyn Schade Dr. and Mrs. Michael E. Scheibach Mr. and Mrs. Rick Schlesinger Ms. Dorothy L. Schmidt Ms. Jane B. Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Schmiedeler Mr. and Mrs. Tom Schnieders Ms. Judy Strong and Mr. Gordon Scholes Dr. Kenneth Schowengerdt and Dr. Joyce Koenig Mr. Jim Schraeder Rosemary G. Schrepfer, M.D. Dr. William C. Schumann Mr. Richard Schupp Mr. and Mrs. John Gregg Scircle, III Mr. and Mrs. Rex W. Scouten

Mr. Richard Seabolt Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Seat Mr. William R. Sierks and Ms. Mamie Segall Mrs. Linda Sehrt Ms. Mary Ann Adams and Mr. Richard Sengpiehl Mr. and Mrs. Stanford L. Severance Mr. and Mrs. Howard Shaffer Mrs. Anne H. Shalinsky Mr. and Mrs. Stan Shank Dr. and Mrs. Nathan G. Shechter Mr. and Mrs. William Sherrill Mr. and Mrs. Phillip A. Sherwood Mr. David A. Shipp Ms. Hazel H. Shippee Mr. Jim Shippee Lt. Col. and Mrs. Robert J. Shippee, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Shrout Mrs. Betty Shrout Mrs. Leona Shulkind Mr. Timothy Shull Siegal Enterprises, Inc. Ms. Marilyn Siegel Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Siegler Mr. Robert P. Sigman Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Simon Mr. and Mrs. Jake M. Simonitsch The Hon. and Mrs. Alan K. Simpson The Hon. and Mrs. Thomas E. Sims, Sr. Dr. and Mrs. W. Christian Sizemore Dr. and Mrs. Max J. Skidmore Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Slater Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Slegman Mr. Roger Slusher Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Smith Mr. and Mrs. J. Randolph Smith Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Smith Mrs. Darline C. Smith Mr. Donald L. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. K. Michael Smith Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence F. Smith The Hon. and Mrs. Philip Smith Dr. and Mrs. David H. Solomon Dr. and Mrs. Warren H. Solomon Ms. Genevieve A. Soulis Dr. and Mrs. Wesley B. Spillman Ms. Kimberly J. Spitzig Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Spry Mr. and Mrs. Otto M. Spurny Mr. and Mrs. Ken Srozinski Mr. and Mrs. Lee E. Stanford Mrs. Gloria Stansbarger-Shy Mr. James A. Starke Mr. Raymond Starzmann Dr. and Mrs. James H. Steele Dub and Joy Steincross The Hon. and Mrs. Robert Steinkamp Mr. and Mrs. Boris Stephen Mr. John A. Stern Mr. and Mrs. Gregory E. Stevens Mr. and Mrs. R. James Stilley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donivan Stogsdill Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Stokes Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Stoliar Dr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Stoll Ms. Mary L. Stone Dr. and Ms. John H. Strange Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Streen Mr. and Mrs. John R. Streu Mr. Robert E. L. Strider, II Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Stringer Mr. and Mrs. Shirley E. Strnad Mr. Paul K. Stuewe and Ms. Beth Wasson Mr. and Mrs. John Stutzer Dean and Mrs. Al Sullivan Ms. Patricia Petre Surber Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Sutton Mr. David Suvak Mr. and Mrs. Leo J. Sweeney Mr. and Mrs. Christopher P. Sweeny Mr. and Mrs. David R. Sylvan

Dave and Barbara Sylvan Fdn. Dr. Harold J. Sylwester Mr. Nicholas Syris Mr. Edward R. Szynal Dr. and Mrs. Duane A. Tananbaum Mrs. Theodore Tannenwald Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Tanner Mrs. Betty F. Tatum Mr. and Mrs. Lyle A. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Jay Teagle Ms. Sherry S. Templeton Mr. and Mrs. James H. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Dale A. Thompson Mr. and Mrs. James A. Thornton Mr. and Mrs. James P. Tierney Ms. Karen Todd Mr. Paul R. Tolland Mr. Andy Toma Mr. Ronald J. Tomczykowski Mr. and Mrs. Noel Torpey Ms. Doris Tousley Mrs. Earlene E. Townsend Mr. James F. Townsend Ms. Ruth R. Traurig Ms. Linda S. Trout Ms. Kathy Truder Ms. Peggy Truders Representative Christel H. Truglia Mr. and Mrs. William M. Tucker Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Tull Mr. Bonnie B. Turner Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Turrentine Mr. and Mrs. Lee Uldbjerg LTC and Mrs. Steve Updike Mr. Daniel E. Uscian Ms. Sue Valentine Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Veis Ms. Ann Veith Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Vest Mr. and Mrs. Randall L. Vest Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Villalva Mr. and Mrs. James M. Voss

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wacknov Mr. and Mrs. John S. Walker Capt. and Mrs. Homer A. Walkup Mrs. Marilyn F. Walz Ms. Dolores Warren Mr. and Ms. Eric L. Watkins Mr. Jeffrey R. Wayne Dr. and Mrs. Paul L. Webb, II Dr. and Mrs. Barton Wechsler Mrs. JoAnn G. Weiner Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Welborn Mr. and Mrs. Karl W. Welch Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Welch Dr. and Mrs. William L. Wells Ms. Judith L. Welpman Ms. Laura Koontz and Mr. Jeff West Mr. and Mrs. Edward Whitcomb Mrs. Helen E. White Mrs. Lana White Mrs. Jean L. Whitener Dr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Whitley Ms. Margaret Jo Smith and Mr. Gary Whitmer Mr. and Ms. Jim Whitten The Hon. and Mrs. Jim Whorton Mr. and Mrs. Blair Wildermuth Mr. Frank P. Wilfley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde A. Williams Ms. Margie Willis Dr. Martin Willman Mr. and Mrs. David C. Wilson Mr. Paul D. Wilson Dr. and Mrs. Htain Win Mr. and Mrs. John H. Windsor Dr. Betty H. Winfield and Dr. Barry Hyman Mr. and Mrs. James W. Winfrey Col. and Dr. Arthur C. Winn Mr. Anthony S. Wintczak, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Winter Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Wishna Ms. Deanna Wishon Mr. Oliver J. Wisner Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Wolf

Mr. John L. Wolfe Mr. Frank Woodside and Dr. Sandra L. Woodside Mr. William H. Woodson Mr. and Mrs. Jonah Wright Mr. Joseph D. Wrinkle Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Wyatt Ms. H. Irene Wyatt Mr. and Mrs. John M. Wylie, II Dr. Kathleen Xidis Dr. Lawrence A. Yates Ms. Patricia Yeats Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Young Mr. and Mrs. Harry D. Young Mr. and Mrs. John E. Young Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Youngs Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Zalimeni Ms. Kristen Zane Ms. Lisa A. Pace and Dr. Robert L. Zangrando Mr. and Mrs. Stanford A. Zeldin Mr. and Mrs. Miles J. Zeller Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas J. Zennario Ms. Elaine O. Zimmerman Mr. and Mrs. George H. Zimmerman Ms. Kimby Zook Mr. and Mrs. John Zuccotti

Gifts In Kind The Capital Grille The Examiner Mrs. Helen Ferris

Hallmark Cards, Inc/Guy Giunta and Capris Stratton Harvest Graphics/ Woody Johnston

Helix Architecture KCUR 89.3 FM Lamar Advertising Company

Leader Chauffeur Services Marriott-Muehlebach Hotel Mathews Communication

The Party Patch/ Michele and Stan Crumbaugh Kansas City Marriott YRC Worldwide Inc.

Tribute and Memorial Gifts Gifts in honor of

Gifts in memory of

Pres. and Mrs. Jimmy Carter Ms. Elaine P. Meitus

Dorothy and Floyd Ball Mr. and Mrs. Louis LaMarra

William “Bill” Thorpe Ms. Mary Elizabeth T. Plyler

Cora and John L. Ball Mr. and Mrs. Louis LaMarra Richard C. Crumpton Mr. and Mrs. James P. Carolus Mr. and Mrs. Milton C. Clarke Ms. Mary A. Closser Commerce Bank of St. Joseph, Missouri

Mrs. Penny Mast and Mr. Harry V. Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Tim Frame Mr. Herb Gross Hillyard, Inc. Mr. David M. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. James E. Lyons Mr. Ken Marker Mr. and Mrs. Dennis V. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Robert Noe Ms. Suzanne K. Nootz

Ms. Dorothy C. Parker Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Raney Mr. and Mrs. Tom Schnieders Ms. Judy Strong and Mr. Gordon Scholes Ms. Margaret E. Shouse Ms. Kathy Truder Ms. Peggy Truders Mr. and Mrs. John E. Waller Mr. and Mrs. Cooper Weeks Ms. Margaret Jo Smith and Mr. Gary Whitmer

Sir Arthur Gilbert Ms. Elaine P. Meitus John Franklyn and Lola Harryman Mrs. Betty J. Dawson Colvin “Pete” Peterson Ms. Nancy Berke Mr. and Mrs. James Brown, III P. E. O. Sisterhood

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Wedding photograph of Harry Truman’s parents, 1881 (62-96) Truman with cousins and classmate, c. 1905 (72-3559) Harry Truman, haberdasher, c. 1920 (82-153) Time for family, 1928 (82-318) Margaret’s dad wins, 1944 (58-606) Winter in Washington, 1945 (59-1546) Harpo Marx with President Truman, 1950 (77-1400) Truman with a Missouri mule, 1955 (58-643) Truman as guest conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic, 1958 (59-659-2) On the front lawn of the White House, 1946 (59-1560) Vice President Truman gavels the Senate into session for the first time, 1945 (68-1441) Mary Jane Truman, sister, c. 1890 (72-3508) Noland School, c. 1909 (61-286) Columbian School, c. 1905 (62-185) Independence, 1899 (59-951-2) Independence High School library, c. 1904 (81-76-07) Fishing with Bess Wallace and others, c. 1913 (84-80) Harry Truman, 1897 (79-26) Harry Truman’s first studio photograph, 1884 (72-3413) Plowing a straight furrow, c. 1910 (64-100) Motoring in the Stafford, c. 1915 (84-37) A memorable birthday, 1945 (97-1952) Campaign worker during Truman’s successful run for the U.S. Senate, 1934 (82-61-6) The President and General MacArthur, Wake Island, 1950 (77-1416) Truman at the family farm in Grandview, 1953 (66-3772) Truman’s I.D. card, American Expeditionary Forces, 1918 (83-128) Officers of the 129th Field Artillery, France, 1919 (58-359) A simple wedding, 1919 (73-1668) The haberdashery owned by Truman and Eddie Jacobson from 1912-1922 (82-64) Blessed with a daughter, 1924 (82-315-06) Judge Truman with fellow judges and clerks, c. 1927 (58-677) On the stump, Webb City, Missouri, 1934 (82-61-33) First Grade Class (Truman is first child on left of bottom row), 1892 (62-768) Brothers Harry and Vivian, 1888 (72-3421)

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Family at the Grandview farm, 1905 (77-3970) Investing in oil, c. 1916 (82-58-79) Fact-finding Senators, 1939 (59-873) The Big Three at Potsdam, 1945 (63-1457-29) Truman takes the oath of office following the sudden death of FDR, 1945 (73-1916) 40 A growing girl, a close family, 1934 (64-1518) 41 “Cactus Jack” Garner and his Jesse James revolvers, 1938 (71-4280) 42 Truman leads calisthenics on the deck of the USS Missouri, 1947 (69-326)

43 Truman with captains of the Army and Navy football teams, 1950 (64-413)

44 Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner, Washington, D.C. (Truman announces he will not seek re-election), 1952 (2006-407) 45 Truman and LBJ at the Truman Library, 1965 (66-42) 46 Truman family with the Kennedys at the White House, 1961 (95-396) 47 Truman speaking to students in the Truman Library auditorium, 1960 (60-353-03) 48 Harry with brother and sister in his Truman Library office, 1963 (63-1441)

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Truman and the Truman Library, 1964 (66-9983) Thomas Hart Benton sketches the former president, c. 1971 (83-51-01) Senator Harry Truman meets with Democratic leaders, 1936 (58-195) With Boss Tom Pendergast before the fall, 1936 (98-39) At the convention, 1936 (58-705) With FDR in Des Moines, 1936 (71-2416) Three for the ferry, c. 1939 (86-76) Inspection tour of Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, 1941 (58-370-01) Harry Truman at 16, 1900 (72-3521) Mother proud of her son, 1944 (59-7) Warm greeting in Topeka, 1948 (2004-235) Upset of the Century, 1948 (58-358) Private Truman, Missouri National Guard, 1912 (77-3962) Bess on the payroll, 1942 (60-229-03) Fact finding at Ford’s Willow Run bomber plant in Michigan, 1942 (2008-168) 64 Senator Truman and Bess making breakfast in their Washington apartment, 1944 (77-69) 65 A new office for a new job, 1945 (68-1711) truman library institute | 2009 annual report

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Truman with grandchildren in Key West, Florida, 1968 (73-1484) Harry and Bess with Margaret and Clifton, 1959 (60-307-01) Harry and Bess with Clifton and William Daniel, 1960 (61-24) Senator in action, c. 1940 (70-5378) Quiet time on the Truman Balcony, 1952 (83-120-01) Following a $5.6 million renovation of The White House, the Trumans move back into the Executive Mansion, 1952 (71-716) Truman Library under construction, 1957 (70-2437) JFK, LBJ, Eisenhower and Truman attending the funeral of Sam Rayburn, 1961 (64-1816) The soon-to-be Vice President, 1945 (66-1635) Homecoming welcome, 1945 (59-1018) Summer respite back home, 1945 (89-2-06) Truman in fez presented to him by Imperial Shrine Potentate William Woodfield, 1945 (66-3253) Harry S (for Santa) Truman, 1945 (59-1558) Off for a swim in Key West, Florida, 1946 (66-1379) Cinematographer-in-Chief, 1947 (64-253) Senator Harry S. Truman, 1945 (58-591) The Truman Committee, 1942 (66-2143) Running mates meet, 1944 (69-1197) Senior Class, Independence High School (Truman is in back, fourth from left), 1901 (71-2401) Back from the war with friends, 1919 (62-74-02) The burden of paper, c. 1942 (60-229-07) Soviet and American delegations at Potsdam, 1945 (58-574) Truman campaigning with George McGovern, 1956 (2008-169) Truman with students at his home, 1970 (70-6130) Housewives for Truman, 1948 (2005-109) The burden of office, 1950 (65-2527) An outing with friends, c. 1913 (82-58-14) Truman and the Masons, 1917 (59-135) 129th Field Artillery regimental canteen at Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, 1917 (58-366) Triangle Club outing, 1921 (62-145)

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96 Wedding photo of Margaret and Clifton Daniel with their parents, 1956 (97-53) 97 Summer training with the Reserves, 1926 (82-197) 98 Jackson County administrator, 1927 (64-1514) 99 County barbeque at Sni-A-Bar Farm, 1932 (58-678) 100 Taking the campaign to county courthouses, c. 1934 (82-61-40) 101 Clearing his desk for a new job ahead, 1934 (62-390) 102 On the hunt, c. 1936 (58-728-01) 103 Dockside in Key West, 1951 (69-395) 104 A goal finally realized (signing of the Medicare Bill), 1965 (66-61) 105 Former President Johnson and family viewing Truman’s casket, December 27, 1972 (73-916) 106 Still sweethearts, 1953 (66-3703A) 107 Family and staff relax at Key West, 1951 (77-3280) 108 Truman family in Hawaii, 1953 (78-59) 109 Old adversaries meet, 1969 (69-1196A) 110 Truman with Eddie Meisburger and Eugene Donnelly, 1972 (72-4253) 111 Senator at work in his office, c. 1940 (96-916) 112 Christmas dinner at the White House, 1947 (83-103-02) 113 You sure this turkey isn’t an elephant?, 1948 (68-1888) 114 Press conference on lawn of the Little White House, Key West, Florida, 1950 (66-873) 115 On the Grandview Farm, c. 1906-09 (84-13) 116 Truman at Dixon’s Chili Parlor in Kansas City, Missouri, 1950 (98-18) 117 Campaigning for future votes?, 1952 (70-1160) 118 Still 120 paces per minute, c. 1960 (77-4164) 119 Truman with Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, 1961 (77-2422) 120 Truman with Lauren Bacall - not typical duty for a Vice President, 1945 (64-13-02) 121 The haberdashers reunited - Eddie Jacobson with Truman, 1945 (59-1015)

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Back in the Oval Office, 1961 (76-498) Visit of Princess Elizabeth, 1951 (2005-5) Arrival in Rio for state visit to Brazil, 1947 (58-656) Congratulating the Vice Presidential nominee, 1944 (58-671)

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