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1949/06/20

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Typed letter signed

Title: to John H. Hilldring.

Thanks Hilldring for his letter from Rome and expresses his desire for a conversation with him when he returns from Europe.

GLC06196.008

1946/04/12

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Document signed

Title: Presidential proclamation.

Countersigned by James F. Byrnes. Presidential proclamation nominating Hilldring as Assistant Secretary of State.

GLC06196.259

1949/04/28

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Typed letter signed

Title: to Edward Weinfeld re: public housing

Truman extends greetings for the 18th Annual meeting of the National Public Housing Conference. He mentions the possibility that Congress will pass legislation "establishing national public housing policy." Weinfeld was president of the National Public Housing Conference.

GLC06699

1945/10/30

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Typed document signed

Title: Speech re: transition to peacetime; economy

"Four days after the surrender of Japan, I issued executive order 9599 which laid down the guiding policies of your government during the transition from war to peace...to assist in the maximum production of civilian goods...to avoid both inflation and deflation."

GLC07720

1953/01/15

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Manuscript document signed

Title: Press release of last Presidential Address

Signed on page 2. Printed front and back. Discusses events of his presidency including the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the end of WWII and Korea. "I suppose that history will remember my term...as the years when the "Cold War" began to overshadow our lives."

GLC06802

1946/01/09

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Typed letter signed

Title: to Sir John Anderson

A brief letter thanking Anderson (Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the [British] Government on Atomic Energy) for a note and calendar, mentioning the "constructive results from atomic energy."

GLC04935.03