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Harry S. Truman Library • Jackson County Historical Society • Joseph C. Pruett • Kansas City Star • Library of Congress • National Archives • United States Senate Historical Office • Washington Star
Index
Acheson, Alice
Acheson, Dean
atomic bomb and
attacks on
background of
China and
Churchill and
death of
defense spending and
Europe and
farewell luncheon for Trumans given by
Greece and
Hiss and
on HST
HST’s correspondence with
HST’s library and
HST’s memoirs and
and HST’s remarks on Kennedy and civil rights
HST’s retirement and
HST’s Yale visit and
influence of
Kennedy and
Korean War and
MacArthur and
McCarthy’s attacks on
on Marshall
Marshall Plan and
NATO and
Nixon’s attack on
NSC-68 report and
physical appearance of
as Secretary of State
Truman Doctrine and
as Under Secretary of State
on Z Committee
Acheson, Mary
ADA (Americans for Democratic Action)
Adam, John
Adams, Abigail
Adams, John
Adams, John Quincy
Adams, Sherman
Adenauer, Konrad
Adonis, Joe
AEC, see Atomic Energy Commission, U.S.
Age of Jackson, The (Schlesinger)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (1938)
Aiken, George
aircraft production
Air Force, U.S.
Alamogordo, atomic tests at
Alaska
Albright, Robert C.
Alcoa (Aluminum Company of America)
Alemán, Miguel
Allen, Charlie
Allen, Fred
Allen, George E.
Allen, Robert S.
Alsop, Joseph
Alsop, Stewart
Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa)
aluminum production
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
America First movement
American Federation of Labor
American Jewish Congress
American Legion
American Lithofold Corporation
American Magazine
American Mercury
“American Relations with the Soviet Union” (Clifford and Elsey)
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)
American Weekly
American Zionist Emergency Council
Anami, Korechika
Anderson, “Bloody Bill,”
Anderson, Clinton
Anderson, Reuben
Anderson, Vernice
Andrew Jackson (James)
Andrews, Bert
anti-trust laws
Arabs, Palestinian
armed forces, see military
Armory Show of 1913
Army contracts, see defense spending
Arnold, Henry H. “Hap,”
art, HST’s views on
Arthur, Chester A.
Arvey, Jake
Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Journal
Atlantic Charter
atomic bomb, atomic energy
Acheson and
Alamogordo test of
in attacks on Japan
Bikini tests of
Forrestal and
hydrogen, see hydrogen bomb
Interim Committee on
Korean War and
Manhattan Project and
military vs. civilian custody of
morality of
as nonmilitary weapon
Soviet Union and
Atomic Energy Commission, U.N.
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), U.S.
Lilienthal as head of
superbomb and
Attlee, Clement
Atwell, Lester
Audubon, John James
Aurthur, Robert Alan
Austin, Warren
Australia
Austria
automobile industry
auto workers’ strike (1946)
Axtell, Enos
Ayers, Eben
Vaughan and
Aylward, James P.
Azerbaijan
B-26 bomber
B-29 bomber:
in Berlin Airlift
in fire bombing of Japan
Babcock, Gaylon
Bacall, Lauren
Baker, Russell
Baldwin, Hanson
Balfour, Arthur, Lord
Balfour Declaration
Balkan states
Ball, George
Ball, Joseph H.
Baltic provinces
Baltimore Sun
B. Altman & Company
Bankhead, Tallulah
Bankhead, William B.
Banning, Mr. and Mrs. William
“Barbara Frietchie” (Whittier)
Bard, Ralph A.
Barkley, Alben
death of
HST as seen by
HST’s Senate reelection and
as majority leader
prop-stop campaign of
as vice-presidential candidate (1944)
as vice-presidential candidate (1948)
Barnes, James M.
Barr, David
Barr, Robert
Barry, Frank
Barrymore, Ethel
Bartky, Walter
Baruch, Bernard
Bataan
Battery D (2nd Battalion, 129th Field Artillery)
Battle, Lucius
Battle of Britain
Baughman, U.E.
Baydur, Huseyin Ragip
Bay of Pigs
Bean, Louis
Beatty, Earl David
Beaverbrook, William Aitken, Lord
Bechtel, Stephen
Belair, Felix, Jr.
Bell, Art
Bell, Elliott
Bell, Jasper
Benedict XV, Pope
Bennett, David A.
Benny, Jack
Bentley, Elizabeth
Benton, Thomas Hart (artist)
Benton, Thomas Hart (senator)
Berenson, Bernard
Berenstein, David
Bergen, Edgar
Berger, Meyer
Bergheim, Myrtle
Bergin, Thomas G.
Beria, Lavrenti
Berlin
Berlin, Irving
Berlin crisis
airlift in
turn of tide in
Vinson mission and
Bernadotte, Folke
Bernstein, Carl
Bernstein, Leonard
Berry, Lucian D.
Best Years of Our Lives, The
Bevin, Ernest
Bidault, Georges
Biddle
, Francis
Biffle, Les
Bikini
Bingham, George Caleb
Binnagio, Charles
Birdzell, Donald
Black, Hugo L
Blackmore, Dwight
blacks
Byrnes and
murders of
Roosevelt and
as voters
see also civil rights; racial prejudice
Blair, Frank
Blair House
Blandy, William
Blaustein, Jacob
Blitz, Samuel
Block, Herb
Boeing
Boettiger, Anna Roosevelt
Boettiger, John
Bogart, Humphrey
Boggs, Lilburn W.
Boggs, Lindy
Bohlen, Charles “Chip,”
on Marshall
at Potsdam
Bolich, Daniel A.
Bonesteel, Charles
Boone, Daniel
Boone, Daniel Morgan
Borah, William E.
Border War
Boring, Floyd M.
Boston Globe
Boston Post
Bourgholtzer, Frank
Bowles, Chester
Bowman, Frederick
Boyd, William
Boyle, Clara
Boyle, William
accusations against
background and character of
resignation of
Bradley, John H.
Bradley, Omar
atomic bomb and
Berlin crisis and
Korean War and
MacArthur and
Brandeis, Louis D.
Brandeis, Mrs. Louis D.
Brandt, Raymond
Brewster, O. C
Brewster, Owen
Brian, Donald
Brice, George
Bricker, John W.
Bridges, Styles
Brooks, Curley
Brooks, Philip C
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Brotherhood
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Browder, Earl
Brown, John
Brown, John Mason
Brown, Matilda D. “Tillie,”
Brownell, Herbert, Jr.
Bryan, William Jennings
Bryant, Paul
Buchenwald
Buck, Pearl S.
Bud Billiken Day
budget, national
Bulgaria
Bulger, Miles
Bundschu, Henry
Bunnelle, Robert
Burke, Ken
Burns, James MacGregor
Burrus, Florence
Burrus, Rufus
Burton, Harold H.