Truman

  confidence and morale inspired by

  death and funeral of

  Eisenhower and

  Europe and

  Harvard commencement speech of

  on HST

  HST on

  Japan and

  Korean War and

  MacArthur’s firing and

  McCarthy’s attack on

  Palestine issue and

  at Potsdam

  retirement of

  as Secretary of Defense

  as Secretary of State

  Vinson mission and

  in World War I

  World War II and

  Marshall, John

  Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program; ERP)

  authorship and naming of

  conception of

  congressional approval of

  cost of

  Harvard commencement speech on

  Kennan’s role in

  1948 campaign and

  partition of Palestine and

  Progressive Party’s denunciation of

  Martin, Glenn

  Martin, Joseph

  background of

  and firing of MacArthur

  as presidential candidate

  as Speaker of the House

  Masaryk, Jan

  Masons

  HST’s membership in

  Matheus, Elijah “Cap”

  Mathias, Bob

  Matthews, Francis P.

  Matthews, T. S.

  Mayerberg, Samuel S.

  Mays, John

  Mead, James

  Meader, George

  meatpackers’ strike (1946)

  meat prices

  meat shortages

  medical care, see health care and insurance

  Medicare

  Médicis, Catherine de

  Meisburger, Edward

  Mellon, Andrew

  Melton, Thomas

  Memoirs (Truman)

  Mencken, H. L.

  Menefee, Walter

  Menninger, William C.

  Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare)

  Merman, Ethel

  Messall, Victor

  Mesta, Perle

  Meuse-Argonne offensive

  Mexican-American War

  Mexico:

  HST’s visit to

  water treaty with

  Meyer, Agnes

  Miami Daily News

  Middle East

  see also specific countries

  Miles, John

  military

  civilian control of

  discrimination in

  NSC-68 report on

  strength of

  unification of forces in

  universal training for

  see also defense spending; draft, military

  Miller, Merle

  Miller, Verne

  Milligan, Jacob L. “Tuck”

  Milligan, Maurice

  Milwaukee Journal

  minimum wage

  mink coats

  Minton, Sherman

  Mission to Moscow (Davies)

  Missouri

  congressional districts in

  Depression in

  General Order No. 11 and

  migration to

  slavery in

  see also Jackson County, Mo.; specific cities and towns

  Missouri Compromise

  Missouri River

  Mitchell, Richard

  Mitchell, Samuel

  Mitchell, Stephen A.

  Molotov, Vyacheslav M.

  Monroe, Elizabeth Kortright

  Monroe, James

  Monroe Doctrine

  Monroney, A. S. Mike

  Montgomery, Emmett

  Moore, Charles H.

  Moore, Elizabeth

  Moran, Lord

  Morgan, David

  Morgan Oil and Refining Company

  Morgenthau, Henry

  Morison, Samuel Eliot

  Mormons

  Morris, Newbold

  Mostyn-Owen, Willy

  Mount Palomar

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  Mr. Citizen (Truman)

  Mr. President (Hillman)

  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

  Muccio, John

  Müller-Grote, Gustav

  Mundt, Karl Earl

  Murphy, Charles

  Murphy, Harry

  Murphy, Robert

  Murphy, Tom

  Murray, Matthew S.

  Murray, Phil

  Murrow, Edward R.

  Mussolini, Benito

  Myers, Hank

  Mylander, William

  Nagasaki, bombing of

  Nagoya, bombing of

  Napoleon I, Emperor of France

  Nash, Frank “Jelly”

  Nation

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

  National Bank of Commerce

  National Conference of City Planning

  National Defense Advisory Commission

  National Defense Mediation Board (NDMB)

  National Guard

  National Old Trails Association

  National Security Act (1947)

  National Security Council (NSC)

  Korea and

  military strength report (NSC-68) of

  Z Committee of

  NATO, see North Atlantic Treaty Organization

  natural resources

  Navy, U.S.

  contracts for, see defense spending

  Navy Bureau of Ships

  Nazis, see Germany, Nazi

  NDMB (National Defense Mediation Board)

  Nebraska

  Neild, Edward F.

  Nelson, Donald M.

  Nesbitt, Henrietta

  Neutrality Act (1936)

  Nevins, Allan

  New Deal

  Communists and

  Second Hundred Days of

  New Republic

  Newsweek

  election poll in

  New Yorker

  New York Herald-Tribune

  New York Post

  New York Sun

  New York Times

  see also Krock, Arthur

  New York Times Book Review

  New York Times Magazine

  Nicholson, Henry

  Niles, David K.

  Nimitz, Chester A.

  Niños Héroes, Los

  Nitze, Paul

  Nixon, Pat

  Nixon, Richard M.

  Nixon, Robert

  Noland, Ella Truman (aunt)

  Noland, Ethel (cousin)

  Noland, Joseph (uncle)

  Noland, Nellie (cousin)

  Noland House

  Norman, Lloyd

  Norris, George W.

  Norstad, Lauris

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  North Attleboro Chronicle

  Noyes, David M.

  NSC, see National Security Council

  NSC-68 report

  nuclear weapons, see atomic bomb, atomic energy

  Nude Descending a Staircase (Duchamp)

  Nuremberg

  Nye, Gerald P.

  Nye Committee

  Odlum, Floyd B.

  Odum, Reathel

  O’Dwyer, William

  Office of Defense Mobilization

  Office of Economic Stabilization

  Office of Emergency Management (OEM)

  Office of Facts and Figures

  Office of Production Management (OPM)

  Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion

  Ogburn, Charlton, Jr.

  Ogden, Betty

  Ogden, Sue

  O’Hara John

  O’Hare, William

  Ohrdruf-Nord

  oil industry

  Middle East and

  Okinawa

  Oliphant, Charles

  Olympic Games (1948)

  Omaha Morning World Herald

  O’Malley, R. Emmett

  OPM
(Office of Production Management)

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert

  Order No. 11 (Bingham)

  Oregon Journal

  organized crime

  Osborne, John

  Osmeña, Sergio

  Ott, Natalie

  Oxford University

  Pace, Frank, Jr.

  PACs (Political Action Committees)

  Paderewski, Ignace Jan

  Palawan Massacre

  Palestine

  Arabs in

  Forrestal and

  Great Britain and

  partitioning of

  U.N. and

  Zionists and

  see also Israel

  Palmer, Ardelia Hardin

  Palmer, W. L. C.

  Parent, Thomas

  Park, Guy B.

  Parkman, Francis

  Parks, Lillian

  Paterson, Newell

  Patterson, Robert

  Patterson, Roscoe Conkling

  Patton, George S.

  Patton, Melvin

  Pauley, Ed

  Pavlov, V.N.

  Paxton, Mary

  Payne, Robert

  Peabody, Endicott

  Peacock, James

  Peale, Rembrandt

  Pearl Harbor attack

  Pearson, Drew

  Forrestal and

  Vaughan and

  Pegler, Westbrook

  Pendergast, James “Alderman Jim”

  Pendergast, James M.

  Pendergast, John

  Pendergast, Kathleen

  Pendergast, Michael

  Pendergast, Mrs. Thomas

  Pendergast, Robert

  Pendergast, Thomas Joseph “T.J.,”

  Benton and

  character and appearance of

  death of

  downfall of

  HST’s first meeting with

  HST’s relationship with

  HST’s Senate campaign and

  illness of

  Lazia and

  Pendergast, T. J., Jr.

  Pendergast political machine

  as stigma on HST

  Pentagon

  see also Defense Department, U.S.

  Pepper, Claude

  Perkins, Frances

  Perlman, Philip B.

  Perón, Juan

  Perry, J. Lester

  Perching, John J.

  Pétain, Henri Philippe

  Peters, Mize

  Petrillo, James C.

  Petroleum Administration

  Phelps, Margaret

  Philadelphia Record

  Philippines

  Phillips, Cabell

  photographers

  Pierce, Franklin

  Pilgrims

  Pine, David A.

  Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company

  Pittsburgh Courier

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  Pittsburgh Press

  Pius XII, Pope

  Plain Speaking (Miller)

  Plunkett, J. P.

  Plutarch

  PM

  Point Four Program

  Poland

  Potsdam Conference and

  Soviet occupation of

  Policy Planning Staff

  Political Action Committees (PACs)

  “Politics of 1948, The” (Rowe)

  Polk, James Knox

  poll taxes

  Potsdam Conference (1945

  atomic bomb and

  central issues at

  HST’s quarters at

  results of

  Potsdam Declaration

  Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.

  Powell, Hettie

  Powell, Jane

  Prague

  Pravda

  presidential flag and seal, redesigning of

  President’s Economic Council

  press conferences, SIS-819

  press photographers

  Prettyman, Arthur

  Progressive Citizens of America

  Prohibition

  Proxmire, William

  Pruden, Edward

  Public Utility Holding Company Act (1935)

  Puerto Rico

  Pugh, Conley

  Pugh, Noah E.

  Purcell, E. T. “Buck,”

  Pye, John

  Quantrill, William

  Rabaut, Louis C.

  racial prejudice

  HST and

  in military

  see also civil rights

  Radford, Arthur

  radio

  Railway Labor Act (1934)

  railway strike (1946)

  Randall, Clarence

  Rash, Bryson

  Rayburn, Sam

  funeral of

  HST’s reelection campaign and

  1948 Democratic Convention chaired by

  Truman Doctrine supported by

  as vice-presidential candidate

  Reagan, Ronald

  Reason Why, The (Woodham-Smith)

  Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

  Reddig, William

  Redding, Jack

  Red Legs

  Reece, Carroll

  Reed, Clyde Martin

  Reed, James A. “Fighting Jim,”

  Reed, Nell Donnelly

  Reed, Stanley F.

  Regan, Phil

  Remington, Frederic

  Reminiscences (MacArthur)

  rent control

  Republican National Committee

  Republican National Conventions:

  of 1944

  of 1948

  of 1952

  Republican Party

  Jewish votes and

  1946 congressional elections won by

  1950 congressional elections won by

  see also election of 1948; elections; specific individuals

  Resolution

  Reston, James

  Results of County Planning

  Reuben James

  Reuther, Walter

  Reynolds, Frank A.

  RFC (Reconstruction Finance Corporation)

  Rhee, Syngman

  Rice, John

  “Richard Cory” (Robinson)

  Richardson, Seth

  Richetti, Adam

  Rickenbacker, Eddie

  Ricketts, Floyd

  Ridge, Albert

  Ridgway, Matthew

  in Korean War

  Riedel, Richard

  Rigdon, William

  Roberts, Roy

  Robeson, Paul

  Robinson, Edwin Arlington

  Robinson, Harold

  Robinson, Joseph T.

  Robinson, S. M.

  Rockefeller, John D.

  Rogers, Ginger

  Rogers, Will

  Romania

  Roosevelt, Alice

  Roosevelt, Eleanor

  HST endorsed by

  husband’s death and

  Roosevelt, Elliott

  Roosevelt, Franklin Jr.

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

  “arsenal of democracy” speech of

  background of

  Barkley and

  blacks and

  bombing and

  Byrnes and

  Churchill and

  Clark and

  Congress and

  Court-packing plan of

  death of

  declining health of

  Dewey and

  dog of

  electronic surveillance and

  Ferdinand Magellan and

  Flynn’s influence on

  Four Freedoms of

  fourth term of

  funeral of

  Good Neighbor Policy of

  health of

  Herbert Hoover and

  HST compared with

  HST on

  HST’s relationship with

  “inspection tour” of

  King and

  Lend-Lease program of

  Long and

  loyalty issue and

  MacArthur and

  Map Room esta
blished by

  Marshall and

  New Deal of, see New Deal

  1944 elections and

  office of

  OPM and

  Palestine issue and

  Pauley and

  Secret Service and

  seizure suffered by

  Soviet Union and

  Stalin and

  Stark and

  Truman Committee and

  Wallace and

  War Production Board established by

  at Yalta

  Roosevelt, James “Jimmy,”

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Roper, Elmo

  Rose, Billy

  Rosenbaum, Bluma, see Jacobson, Bluma Rosenbaum

  Rosenberg, Anna

  Rosenman, Dorothy

  Rosenman, Sam

  Ross, Charlie

  death of

  on HST

  as HST’s childhood friend

  HST’s reelection campaign and

  loyalty of

  at Potsdam

  press secretary appointment of

  Vaughan and

  Wallace’s New York speech and

  Ross, Mike

  Rovere, Richard

  Rowe, James A., Jr.

  Rowley, Jim

  Royall, Kenneth C.

  Royce, Morton

  rubber production

  Rummel, Henry

  Rusk, Dean

  Russell, Richard B., Jr.

  S-1, see Manhattan Project

  St. Louis Globe-Democrat

  St. Louis Post-Dispatch

  St. Louis Star-Times

  Saint-Mihiel

  Salisbury, Frank O.

  Salisbury, Spencer

  Saltonstall, Leverett

  San Antonio Express

  Sanderson, Julia

  San Francisco Conference (1945)

  San Francisco Examiner

  Sargent, John Singer

  Sato, Naotake

  Saturday Evening Post

  Saturday Review

  Saudi Arabia

  Sawyer, Aaron

  Sawyer, Charles

  Schenectady

  Scherer, Ray

  Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.

  Schneider, Edward L.

  Schoeneman, George J.

  Schultheiss, Paul

  Schwartz, Harry

  Schwellenbach, Lewis

  Scott, Hazel

  Scouten, Rex

  Seattle Times

  Sebald, William

  Secretary of Defense, creation of office of

  Secret Service, U.S.

  assassination attempt and

  at Potsdam

  Senate, U.S.:

  Appropriations Committee

  Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate

  District of Columbia Committee

  Hoey Committee

  HST’s career in

  Interstate Commerce Committee

  Kefauver Committee

  Military Affairs Committee

  Nye Committee

  Printing Committee

  Public Buildings and Grounds Committee

  Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, see Truman Committee

  Tydings Committee

  see also Congress, U.S.

  Sermon, Roger T.

  Sevareid, Eric

  Seward, William H.

  Shakespeare, William

  Shanghai

  Shannon, Joseph B.

  Shannon, William V.

  Shaw, George W.

  Shaw, Mary

  Sherman, Forrest

  Sherman, William Tecumseh

  Shertok, Moshe

  Sherwood, Robert

  Short, Dewey

  Short, Joe

  Shostakovich, Dmitri