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3 November 1948
Chicago daily tribune. [Vol. CVII, no. 264 (November 3, 1948)]
Infamous incorrect printing of the results of the 1948 election. Main headline reads, "Dewey Defeats Truman."
GLC08815
January 20, 1953
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
[First inaugural address]
Signed by Eisenhower on the first page. Focuses on protecting freedom and equality, unity and promoting international economic interdependence. Outlines nine principles to advance peace and freedom throughout the world. "The peace we seek, then...
GLC01548
February 20, 1946
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
to Kenneth W. Snyder
Writing to Snyder in Kansas City, Missouri, Truman responds to Snyder's 13 February 1946 letter and comments on an editorial from the Kansas City Star that advocated continued government participation in local community issues. Truman argues against...
GLC00782.21
March 31, 1950
to Dean Acheson
A personal letter to Acheson, then secretary of state. Responding to a letter of Acheson dated 28 March and enclosing a copy of his previous day's press conference. Mentions Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Henry Stimson as arguing from the...
GLC00782.22
1952/08/12
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963
[Portion of an address on the containment of Communism]
Incomplete draft of a speech Kennedy delivered 12 August 1952 to the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Federation of Labor. Reflects on Communist expansion and America's need to contain it. Working manuscript with many insertions and deletions...
GLC02313
1946
Bill, Alfred Hoyt, 1879-1964
The Beleaguered city: Richmond, 1861-1865
II Nevins 212.
GLC00267.226
1947
Eisenschiml, Otto, 1880-1963
The American Iliad; the epic story of the Civil War as narrated by eyewitnesses and contemporaries
Edited by Eisenschiml and Ralph Newman. 1st edition, published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company.
GLC00267.253
Blackford, Susan L., 1835-?
Letters from Lee's army...
Dornbusch 1194
GLC00267.343
1949
Williams, Kenneth P., 1887-1958
Lincoln finds a general: A Military Study of the Civil War
GLC00267.347
Grolier Club
One hundred influential American books printed before 1900...
(title continues)... Catalogue and addresses. Exhibition at The Grolier Club, April eighteenth-June sixteenth, MCMXLVI. Published by the Grolier Club. Contents include the committee's selections, "America as Frontier," a catalogue of the...
GLC00352
February 15, 1951
to Lewis Strauss
Thanks him for his memoranda. Thinks it is crucially important to maintain good relations with Jewish, Catholic and Protestant world leaders, "As you know, I have been trying my best to organize the moral forces of the world..."
GLC00162.19
July 31, 1953
to Lewis L. Strauss
Eisenhower replies to a letter from Strauss written on the same page. Strauss informs that despite headlines about the atomic powered submarines, there was no security breach. States that the news came from a report made to Congress by Strauss'...
GLC00162.21
April 12, 1957
Memorandum for the Secretary of State and Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
Informs that he has approved H. R. 5866 which enables the United States to cooperate with Berlin to use atomic energy peacefully. Interprets language in the Act and informs that it is his intention to have the Secretary of State handle negotiations...
GLC00164
June 22, 1949
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
to Samuel K. McConnell, Jr.
Written in reply to Pennsylvania Congressman McConnell's request that he give his views on education legislation (the federal "grants-in aid") before the Committee on Education and Labor. Former President Hoover asserts his strong personal interest...
GLC00200
5 August 1953
to Samuel Cavert
Thanks him for his letter on behalf of the National Council of Churches of Christ about the Korean Armistice. Expresses his relief to see the end of the bloodshed in Korea and hopes for a lasting peace. Mentions that is necessary that the United...
GLC03208
1951/01/27
to Dean Acheson re: Madame Tussaud's Waxworks likeness of him
Signed as President on White House stationery. (Accompanied by a typed copy of Acheson's reply with the Feb. 2 Truman memo reponding to his memo as .121). Quite humorous.
GLC02793.091
1952/04/01
to Harry I. Schwimmer re: his intention not to seek re-election
Signed as President on White House stationery.
GLC02793.093
15 January 1953
[Farewell Address]
Discusses the events of his presidency. A good part of the address speaks about using American resources and the United Nations to fight the menace of Communism and increase food production, amongst other things. In his conclusion, he looks beyond...
GLC04935.01
1946/01/09
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
1953/01/15
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...
GLC06802
1945/12/18
Gaffey, Hugh J., 1895-1946
to Renee Stockdale re: news that Patton will be crippled from car accident
Conveying a surgeon's opinion that Patton would survive the injuries suffered in a car accident, although without the ability to walk. Gaffey writes in part "It seems unfair that a man who had gone through as much as he had during the war should be...
GLC06760.13
1949/04/28
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...
GLC06699
1985/11/25
Nixon, Richard M., 1913-1994
to Konstantin Simis
Praises Simis' book "The Corrupt Society" (USSR--the corrupt society : the secret world of Soviet capitalism) as an "antidote to some of the gushy sentimentality about our Soviet Friends coming from the media in Geneva." Suggests that it should be...
GLC06281
13 September 1967
Goldstein, Israel, 1896-1986
to John D. Buchanan
Written on stationery of Congregation B'Nai Jeshurdun, New York. Goldstein writes that the United Nations, "weak and faulty an instrument as it is," has been a major deterrent to a world war in the troubled times following World War Two. He...
GLC05508.111
24 October 1950
MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964
to Mary Cushman
Writing from his office in the General Headquarters, United Nations Command, MacArthur, as commander-in-chief of the United Nations Command, offers condolence on the death of Mary Cushman's son in the Korean War. He praises devotion to duty and...
GLC05508.173
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