Annual Report 2009

truman125Annual Report 2008-2009

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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.

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“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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SPECIAL FEATURES

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

25 Adventures with Grandpa Trumanby Clifton Truman Daniel

37 Harry Truman’s History Lessonsby Samuel W. Rushay, Jr.

Truman TimelineOn pages 7, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 43, 45, 47

Truman125 Exhibit PhotosFeatured throughout; index on pages 55-56

(800) 833-1225 | www.TrumanLibrary.org

Editor: Susan Medler | Designer: Elisa Berg

Cover Photo: Harry Truman at Minnesota’s Truman Day Celebration,St. Paul, MN, Nov. 3, 1949

CONTENTS

2 Mission

4 Volunteer Leadership

5 Executive Message

7 Truman125

10 What We Do

11 Exhibitions

17 Programs and Events

30 Education

33 Research Grants and Awards

34 Truman Bookshelf

40 Friends and Members

42 Ways to Be Involved

43 Upcoming Events

45 Volunteers and Interns

47 Financial Overview

48 Donor Honor Roll


Mr. Henry W. BlochMrs. Elinor BorenstineMr. Willard L. BoydMrs. Mary Shaw BrantonDr. George H. Curtis

Mr. George M. ElseyDr. Lawrence E. GelfandMr. Larry J. HackmanDr. Susan M. HartmannDr. Ken Hechler

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

Mr. Thomas A. McDonnellMr. C. Westbrook MurphyMr. James B. Nutter, Sr.Mrs. Barbara J. PottsMrs. Gloria Schusterman

Mr. Morton I. SoslandMr. Elmer B. StaatsMr. David Stanley

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Volunteer Leadership

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CHAIRMAN & PRESIDENT William C. Nelson, George K. Baum Asset Mgmt.VICE CHAIR Mary E. Hunkeler, Community VolunteerVICE CHAIR John J. Sherman, Inergy

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

Carol Anderson, Ph.D., Emory UniversityAlan L. Atterbury, Midland Properties, Inc.Kirk W. Carpenter, Carpenter & CompanyMichael J. Devine, Harry S. Truman Library and MuseumJohn A. Dillingham, JoDill, Inc. and Dillingham EnterprisesCharles M. Foudree, Ret., Harmon Industries, Inc.Sam F. Hamra, Hamra EnterprisesMary C. Johnston, National VolunteerAllen L. Lefko, Bank of Grain ValleyKenneth B. McClain, Humphrey, Farrington, and McClain, P.C.Thomas R. McGee, Jr., DST RealtyJohn P. McMeel, Andrews McMeel Universal

Larry L. McMullen, Husch Blackwell Sanders LLPRev. Wilson D. Miscamble, CSC, University of Notre DameJames B. Nutter, Jr., James B. Nutter & CompanyCappy P. Powell, Community VolunteerPage Branton Reed, Community VolunteerBeth K. Smith, Community VolunteerElizabeth T. Solberg, Fleishman Hillard, Inc.Charles S. Sosland, Sosland Publishing Co.The Hon. James W. Symington, O’Connor & HannanMaurice A. Watson, Husch Blackwell Sanders LLPClyde F. Wendel, UMB Bank n.a.

Walter Isaacson, President & CEO, Aspen InstituteThe 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 ChairmanClifton Truman Daniel

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Directors

National Advisory Council

Honorary Trustees

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WILLIAM C. NELSONChairman & President

ALEX BURDENExecutive Director

Dear colleagues and friends,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’sbirth 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 heldup as a standard by which today’s leaders are judged. On issues ranging from health care reform to civil liberties to government ac-countability, those trying to make sense of today’s politics and policies turn to the man from Missouri. Little wonder that, in its sec-ond survey on presidential leadership, C-SPAN once again declared Truman to be one of our nation’s greatest leaders, in the top fivewith 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 – wewill continue to ensure that the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum remains a classroom for democracy, especially foryoung 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 TrumanLibrary Institute. We want to especially thank Truman125 Honorary Chairs Adele and Donald Hall, members of the Honorary Commit-tee, and lead sponsors of Truman125 (see the complete listing on page 7). During fiscal year 2009, we raised a record $2.2 millionfor our mission-driven initiatives and programs, and on page 10 you can find a complete list of all that is accomplished with yoursupport – 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 theimportant lessons gleaned from Truman’s legacy – through nationally acclaimed educational outreach, perspective-changing ex-hibits, 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 BatteryD; Gloria Schusterman and Elinor Borenstine, the daughters of Truman’s lifelong friend, Eddie Jacobson; presidential family membersSusan 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’svision for his presidential library. There are so many ways to be involved, and all offer wonderful benefits and experiences. On page42, you’ll find information about membership levels and benefits. New this year is a Cumulative Giving Society, and our Legacy Soci-ety continues to offer tax-savvy options for those wishing to make a significant, lasting contribution benefiting the Harry S. TrumanPresidential 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 thiscommemorative annual report.

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U.S. Senator Kit BondMary Shaw BrantonU.S. Rep. Emanuel CleaverJohn C. “Jack” DanforthClifton Truman DanielGeorge M. ElseyThe Hon. Richard GephardtSam HamraMary Hunkeler

Missouri Lt. Governor Peter KinderHerbert M. KohnU.S. Senator Claire McCaskillDavid McCulloughU.S. Rep. Dennis MooreWilliam C. NelsonMissouri Governor Jay NixonU.S. Rep. Ike SkeltonBeth K. Smith

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Honorary Chairs | Adele and Donald HallTruman125 Honorary Committee

May 8, 2009 marked the 125th birthday of Harry Truman, recognizedworldwide as one of America’s greatest leaders. To commemorate this importantanniversary, the Truman Library Institute and Harry S. Truman Library and Museumoffered a diverse array of special exhibitions, programs and V.I.P. events, includingthe premiere of a new photo exhibit, Truman125: A Life in Photographs, the reopen-ing of Truman’s Working Office, a Veterans Day Salute to Captain Harry and theDoughboys of Battery D, and a special appearance by ABC political commentator CokieRoberts at the Truman Library Institute’s annual fundraising dinner, Wild About Harry. The year-long celebration was led by honorary chairs Adele and Donald Hall and made possible by lead supportfrom 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 photoindex found on pages 55-56. Harry Truman’s life is recalled in words, as well. Three articles, firstpublished 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 ofthis page and runs throughout the report. Truman125 programs and exhibits are identified with thissymbol .

May 8: Harry S.Truman is born inLamar, Missouri.

The Trumans moveto 619 CryslerStreet inIndependence,Missouri. YoungHarry meets BessWallace for the firsttime in FirstPresbyterianChurch’s SundaySchool.

Truman takes a jobas a clerk for theNational Bankof Commercein Kansas City,Missouri.

To help out his parents and hisbrother, Vivian, Harry moves to the

600-acre familyfarm nearGrandview,Missouri andhelps themmanage andoperate it.

Truman beginscourting BessWallace.

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Late in the afternoon of April 12, 1945, Harry S. Trumanwas summoned from the Capitol to the White House and told thatPresident Franklin Delano Roosevelt was dead. Vice President for only82 days, he was now the nation’s leader and commander in chief of8.3 million soldiers and sailors fighting in Europe and the Pacific.

Suddenly, this “little man from Missouri,” as some of his de-tractors called him, was among the most powerful men in theworld, if not the most powerful, and his solutions to the prob-lems Roosevelt left him would determine the shape of the worldfor generations to come.

The worldly and patrician Roosevelt had been president for 12years, and many Americans could not imagine anyone else inthe White House. Who was the new president, with his Missouritwang, 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 cap-tain in World War I. After the war, he opened a haberdasheryshop, but it failed. Then he went into politics. After eight yearsas a local government official, he became a United States sena-tor. All of these experiences developed in Truman an innate

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common touch, a feel for the concerns of ordinary Americansthat those of FDR’s social status did not have.

Truman liked the U.S. Senate and would have been content toremain there for the rest of his career. But it was not to be. In1944, Democratic Party bosses—convinced Roosevelt would notlive out a fourth term—persuaded the president to dump the too-liberal Henry Wallace as vice president and accept the centrist,border-state Truman as FDR’s fourth-term running mate, and, ineffect, the next president. The party bosses were right, and thenew vice president was soon summoned to be president.

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The war in Europe ended within a month of Truman’s accession tothe presidency on April 12, 1945, and the atomic bombs brought thePacific 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 apeacetime America—a nation vastly different from the one thatexisted before the Great Depression and World War II.

Returning soldiers and sailors faced shortages of jobs and af-fordable housing. Many consumer products prohibited bywartime 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”—in-creases in Social Security and minimum wages, more publichousing, and aid to education—but it got nowhere in Congress.

And then there was the state of the postwar world, which had soconcerned Roosevelt. Truman took FDR’s place at the table withWinston Churchill and Josef Stalin to decide how a defeated Ger-many was to be divided and set the boundaries of the spheres ofinfluence of the victorious Allies, decisions that stood for decades.

Despite having little preparation for the job, he moved in typi-cal Truman style: quickly and decisively. He proceeded withFDR’s plan for the United Nations. He enunciated and put intoaction as the Truman Doctrine his plan of containment of SovietRussia. And he authorized the Marshall Plan to rescue a war-ravaged Western Europe. He reorganized the nation’s militaryand intelligence-gathering agencies—this even with the sup-port of the 1947–1948 Republican-controlled Congress.

In 1948, running for a full term of his own, Truman won an upsetvictory, shocking the pundits, pollsters, the Republicans, and the

breakaway elements of the Democratic Party. He won by hard cam-paigning and by capitalizing on the rapport he had with ordinaryworking men and women, merchants, farmers, and veterans.

During the campaign, Truman refused to play it safe politically.He proposed civil rights legislation and ordered desegregationof 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, Trumanordered a massive airlift.

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The next four years, however, were even tougher ones. TheNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization was established, but the Sovi-ets now had the bomb and half of Europe, and the communistshad won control of mainland China. At home, the “red scare”was sweeping the nation.

Then, on June 25, 1950, the North Koreans invaded SouthKorea. Truman responded with troops under the banner of theUnited Nations. The nation was at war again, and a frustratingstalemate developed. When his Far East commander, Gen. Dou-glas MacArthur, publicly urged pushing beyond North Korea andengaging the Chinese, contrary to the official U.S. position, Tru-man fired him, an action that resulted in a public outcry.

Truman left office in 1953 with low approval ratings, but theyclimbed steadily over the years, in the eyes of historians as wellas the public. Candidates of all stripes still make a pilgrimage toIndependence, hoping some of the Truman magic rubs off onthem nearly 40 years after his death in 1972 at the age of 88.

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Harry Truman was pretty much the same person when he leftthe White House in 1953 as when he suddenly became its occu-pant in 1945.

Whether people called out to him, “Give ’Em Hell, Harry,”sneered at him as the “accidental president,” or called him af-fectionately “the man from Independence,” Truman did what hethought was right for the country. He did not agonize over thedecisions he had to make, nor was he given to melancholy orbrooding; 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 theNational Archives and Records Administration.

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

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President Truman.

For more than a half century, the Harry S. Truman Library Institute—a not-for-profit, tax-ex-empt corporation—and the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum have worked in tandem to fulfill acommon 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 re-search programs, and stimulating forums, the Truman Library Institute brings to life the invaluablerecord of Truman’s life and times, preserved and interpreted by the historians, archivists and cura-tors of the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum.

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 LibraryInstitute include:

• Harry S. Truman Book Award

• Scholar’s Award

• Dissertation Year Fellowships

• Research Grants

• Conferences

• Summer Teacher Institute

• National History Day – Greater Kansas City

Regional Competition

• Permanent and Temporary Museum Exhibits

• The Howard & Virginia Bennett Forum on the

Presidency

• Wild About Harry

• The Truman Medal for Economic Policy

• Community Partnerships

• Government Relations

• Museum Programs

• Truman Legacy Events

• The White House Decision Center

• Student Museum Tours

• Ongoing Educational Programs

• Website Hosting and Management

• Museum and Archives Support

• Digital Archives Support

• Student Internship Program

• Volunteer and Docent Program

• Tourism Marketing

• Public Relations

• Publications/Communications

• Capital Improvements

• Preventative Maintenance

• Development and Fundraising

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August: Truman issworn into regulararmy service as amember of 129thField Artilleryregiment.

April 13: Truman arrives in Brest, France, onboard U.S.S. George Washington.

July 11: Capt. Truman is assignedcommand of Battery D, 129th FieldArtillery regiment, 35th Division.The battery is composed of 188men, 167 horses, and acomplement of French-designed75mm guns. Four months later,World War I ends.

June 28: HarryTruman and Elizabeth(Bess) Virginia Wallaceare married.November: Trumanand Eddie Jacobsonopen a men’shaberdashery store inKansas City, Missouri.

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A recession forcesthe closure of thehaberdashery. Withthe endorsement ofcounty Democraticparty leader T. J.Pendergast, Trumanwins election as aneastern judge on theJackson CountyCourt.

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Memories of World War II: Photographs from the Archives of The Associated PressNovember 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 pho-tographer Joe Rosenthal’s classic Iwo Jima flag raising in 1945 to scores of pictures not seen in decades. Theimages 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 ofJapanese 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 CharlesZoeller, curator of the exhibition. “We wanted to create a photographic record that allows a younger generation to better understandthe 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: Mu-seum visitors bringing contributions for Harvesters Community Food Network received $1 off admission.

School House to White House: The Education of the PresidentsFebruary 7 – August 30, 2009

Organized by the National Archives and Records Administration, SchoolHouse to White House: The Education of the Presidents focused on theearly education of American presidents from Herbert Hoover throughGeorge W. Bush. The family-friendly, multimedia exhibit was designed toengage visitors of every age and interest. More than 150 documents, ar-

tifacts, photos and films from the National Archives collections revealed fascinating detailsabout the children who would grow up to lead our nation. Highlights included RichardNixon’s 8th-grade autobiography; early report cards of Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, JohnF. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter; and Harry Truman’s inspiring essay titled “Courage” (pictured). During its run, School Houseto White House was viewed by 50,467 visitors.

Truman beginsclasses at the KansasCity School of Law;due to financialhardship, he will notcomplete theprogram.

February 17:A daughter,Margaret, isborn to Harryand Bess.

Truman is electedpresiding judge ofthe Jackson CountyCourt.

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Nov. 6: In his first senatorialcampaign, Truman defeatsincumbent Republican RoscoeC. Patterson by 262,000 votes.In his first term, he will speakout against corporate greedand warn of the dangers ofWall Street speculators andother moneyed specialinterests attaining too muchinfluence in national affairs.

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In a hotly contestedbattle, Truman retainshis U.S. Senate seat.It is considered aturning point in hispolitical career.

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SenatorTruman’s workas chairman ofthe “TrumanCommittee”(which exposed fraudand mismanagementof military funds)earned Truman hisfirst appearance onthe cover of Time.

May: Truman is selected asone of the 10 most usefulofficials in Washington,D.C. in a pollby Lookmagazine.

July 21: Truman is nominated forthe office of vice president at theDemocratic National Convention in Chicago.

April 12: President Rooseveltdies; Truman is sworn in as 33rd

president of the UnitedStates.May 8: Trumanannounces the end of thewar in Europe via radio. Itis his 61st birthday.July 17-August 2: Trumanattends a conference atPotsdam, Germany to discuss

the post-war treatment of Germany withJoseph Stalin and Winston Churchill.August 6: Truman announces thedropping of the first atomic bomb onHiroshima, Japan. August 14: Truman announces the

end of war with Japan at a press conference. September 6: Truman presents to Congress his plan toexpand Roosevelt’s New Deal. Time names President Truman “Man of the Year.”

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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 hadnever before been displayed, and all culled from the Truman Library’s collection ofmore than 100,000 photographs—helped visitors better understand the 19th-centuryfarm boy who became a 20th-century giant. The exhibit turned a historical lens on themost important chapters of Harry Truman’s life, from his humble beginnings to hiscourtship of Bess Wallace, his unexpected rise to the presidency, and his return to In-dependence, Missouri.

Complementing the photographs were rarely seen artifacts from the Truman Li-brary’s collection of nearly 30,000 objects, as well as video clips which featured theformer president discussing the events represented by still images. Walking throughthe exhibit, visitors encountered quotes about Harry Truman by people making newstoday, including President Obama, Senator John McCain, former President George W.Bush, Senator Claire McCaskill, former President Bill Clinton and others. Younger visi-tors found many hands-on, interactive features in the gallery. Throughout, the exhibitwas a reminder that the largely black-and-white record of Truman’s life cannot con-tain the colorful complexity of this remarkable character.

At a GlanceEXHIBIT: 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 CharitableTrust, Daniel Weary, Trustee

Adele and Donald HallNorman and Elaine Polsky Family

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In a fitting celebration of President Truman’s 125th birth-day, the ceremonial rededication and reopening of Truman’s Work-ing Office took place on Thursday, May 7, 2009.

From the time the Truman Library opened in 1957, Harry Trumanmaintained his office here, often working five to six days a week. Init he wrote his book Mr. Citizen, articles, letters, and other corre-spondence. 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 operationof the Library, establishing themes for the Library’s first museumexhibits, personally training groups of museum docents, and con-ducting impromptu “press conferences” for visiting school students.

Following Mr. Truman’s death in 1972, the office became an exhibitthat could be viewed by the visiting public through an outside win-dow. But the cumulative effects of more than 30 years of excess ex-posure to daylight and fluctuations in temperature and humidity tooka serious toll on the contents of Truman’s office. The ultraviolet rays

Truman ’ s Working Off ice

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

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

THE RENOVATION

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SUPPORT FROM…

Hall Family Foundation_______

American Century InvestmentsCourtney S. Turner Charitable Trust/

Daniel C. Weary and Bank of AmericaTrustees

DST Systems, Inc.Mrs. Marjorie N. Martin †Dr. & Mrs. John Hunkeler

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. McDonnellThe McGee Foundation

National Endowment for the HumanitiesMrs. Beth K. Smith

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J.E. Dunn Construction CompanyMr. & Mrs. Morton I. Sosland The Sunderland Foundation

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Mrs. Mary Shaw BrantonMr. & Mrs. Richard P. Bruening

Mr.† & Mrs. Richard C. CrumptonMilton W. Feld Charitable Trust

Elaine Feld Stern Charitable TrustMr. & Mrs. Chuck FoudreeMr.† & Mrs. S. Lee Kling

Mrs. Barbara Hall MarshallMr. Roger A. NovakMr. Lambert B. Ott

Harry Portman Charitable TrustMr. & Mrs. William M. Reisler

Mrs. & Mrs. Charles A. SpauldingThe STAKE Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Clyde F. Wendel

For a complete list of Truman Working Officecontributors, please call (816) 268-8237.

from sunlight dramatically faded many of theobjects in the room. Silver objects on thePresident’s desk showed tarnishing from theroom’s climate fluctuations. Mold growthwas evident on some of the leather-boundbooks. The project to preserve Truman’s of-fice was threefold: 1) conserve the historicalmaterials displayed within the office, 2) in-sure the future protection of the office andits contents with better climate control sys-tems and the elimination of harmful ultravio-let rays from sunlight, and 3) create anexhibit pavilion with engaging interpretiveexhibits emphasizing the precedents Trumanset for his Library and for the entire presi-dential library system.

Today, the vision is realized. Thanks to sup-porters of the Truman Working Office Cam-paign, this important new interpretive gallerynow provides unprecedented access to thishistoric office while sharing the largely untoldstory of Truman’s post-presidential years.

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

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

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

Truman Legacy Series“Evolution of the National Security Council: Truman to Present”Featuring Dr. D. Robert Worley, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War CollegeFebruary 2, 2009 | Kansas City Public Library – Truman ForumCo-sponsored by the Truman Center for Governmental Affairs at UMKC and the Kansas City Public Library

Fabulous First LadiesFeaturing Patricia Krider, director, National First Ladies’ LibraryFebruary 13, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and MuseumCommemorating the 124th birthday of First Lady Bess Wallace Truman; co-presented by theIndependence Pioneer Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution

Presidents’ Day CelebrationFebruary 16, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Wild About HarryApril 23, 2009 | Marriott-Muehlebach Hotel, Kansas City, Mo.Featuring Cokie Roberts, author and commentatorHonorary Chairs: Adele and Donald HallEvent Chairs: Mary Shaw Branton and Page Branton ReedHighlights on page 22

Talkin’Truman Truman Library archivistscommemorated Harry Truman’s125th birthday with a newseries of informative programshighlighting rare and uniqueitems from the Truman Library’scollections.

The Truman and WallaceFamilies of IndependenceMay 9, 2009

An Independence WeddingJune 13, 2009

Our Favorite Photos of HSTJuly 11, 2009

Boss Tom & Truman: ThePendergast ConnectionAugust 8, 2009

Spies and Subversives in theDawn of the Atomic AgeSeptember 12, 2009

Harry Truman and “The Rich& Famous”October 10, 2009

Captain Harry: The MilitaryCareer of a MissourianNovember 14, 2009

Christmas at the White HouseDecember 12, 2009

Offered monthly at 11 a.m. onsecond Saturdays, Talkin’ Trumanprograms will continue in 2010;for a complete program line-up,please see page 43

Truman

“created a

moment that

echoes through

the years.”– Juan Williams

Political Commentator

Live from the Truman LibraryThe Walt Bodine Show, KCUR 89.3 FMFeaturing Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of President Truman, and Matthew Algeo, author of HarryTruman’s Excellent AdventureMay 7, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Toasting TrumanMay 7, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and MuseumRededication of Truman’s Working Office – an exclusive event for members of the Truman LibraryInstitute’s premier membership society

Presidential Wreath Laying CeremonyMay 8, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and MuseumIn 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 McGovernMay 15-17, 2009 | Little White House, Key West, Fl.

Keeping the Peace in Countries of ConflictFeaturing Lt. Col. John Curatola, Ph.D., U.S. Marine Corps, and an international “Peacekeepers Roundtable”May 30, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and MuseumCo-presented by the United Nations Association of Greater Kansas City

Honorary Fellows Night at the MuseumJune 11, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and MuseumThe second annual members-only event included private tours of the newly renovated Truman’sWorking Office and the temporary exhibit Truman125: A Life in Photographs

EDDIEA One-Act Play about Eddie Jacobson, Harry Truman, and a Friendship That Changed the WorldStarring Marvin Starkman as Eddie JacobsonFeaturing Special Appearances by Clifton Truman Daniel (Truman grandson) and Elinor Borenstineand Gloria Schusterman (Jacobson daughters)June 25, 2009 | The Temple, Congregation B’nai JehudahMade possible by generous support from Bonnie and Herb Buchbinder and Ann Jacobson

Freedom to Serve ForumFeaturing Juan Williams, political commentatorJuly 27, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and MuseumCommemorating the 61st Anniversary of President Truman’s Executive Order 9981, establishing fairand equal treatment within the United States Armed ForcesOrganized and co-presented by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

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

Vietnam Veterans AppreciationEvent - VIP ReceptionSeptember 12, 2009 | Harry S.Truman Library and Museum

National Issues Forum “Democracy’s Challenge:Reclaiming the Public’s Role”September 29, 2009 | Kansas CityPublic Library – Truman ForumCo-presented by the Kansas CityPublic Library, the Harry S.Truman Center for GovernmentalAffairs (UMKC), Kansas CityConsensus, the KetteringFoundation, and the NationalIssues Forums Institute

Clockwise from top left: Juan Williamsleads panel discussion at the Freedom toServe Forum; Marvin Starkman portrays

Eddie Jacobson; Vietnam VeteransAppreciation Event; Clifton Truman Daniel(left) and author Matthew Algeo during alive broadcast of The Walt Bodine Show.

“One of the

most compelling,

inspiring events

ever produced to

commemorate my

grandfather’s

legacy. And

what a joy to

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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 andLaw, University of Missouri-Kansas CityOctober 5, 2009 | Kansas City Public Library – Truman ForumCo-presented by the Kansas City Public Library and the Harry S. Truman Center for GovernmentalAffairs, 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 ForumCo-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 EventA Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of IsraelFeaturing Allis and Ronald RadoshOctober 20, 2009 | Kansas City Public Library – Truman ForumCo-presented by the Kansas City Public Library and the Jewish Community RelationsBureau/American Jewish Committee

March 12: Truman requests (and in May receives) anappropriation of $400 million before a joint session ofCongress to fight the spread of communism in Greeceand Turkey (Truman Doctrine). June 14: Truman signs a peace treaty ratification withItaly, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. July 28: Truman attends the funeral of his mother inGrandview, Missouri.

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

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“Harry Truman…stands as one of our most important presidents, with a lastinglegacy.”

– Paul A. VolckerFormer Chairman of the Federal Reserve

carried more than two million tons ofsupplies in 270,000 flights. The blockadewas lifted on May 12, 1949. July 15: Truman is nominated Democraticcandidate for president on the first ballot atthe Democratic National Convention inPhiladelphia, after 35 delegates fromAlabama and Mississippi walk out of theconvention in protest against a strong civilrights plank in the party platform. SenatorAlben W. Barkley of Kentucky is chosen as

Truman’s vice-presidential candidate.July 26: PresidentTruman signs ExecutiveOrder 9981 in order toprovide equality oftreatment for allAmerican service members. It is consideredthe first significant stride toward racialequality since Lincoln’s administration.September 6-October 30: During his

“whistle stop” campaign,Truman travels nearly 22,000miles and makes 275speeches, centering hisattack upon the record of the“do-nothing 80th Congress.”

November 2: Truman is elected to hissecond term as president, contrary to theforecasts of newspapers and poll takers,who had almost unanimously predictedhis defeat.

Harry S. Truman Medal for Economic PolicyAwarded to Paul A. Volcker, former chairman of the Federal ReserveOctober 23, 2009 | Kansas City Downtown Marriott Co-presented by the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration, University of Missouri-Kansas City; The Economic Club of Kansas City; and the Missouri Council on Economic Education

The United Nations and the Protection of Children in Conflict ZonesFeaturing Radhika Coomaraswamy, United Nations Under Secretary-General for Children and Armed ConflictOctober 29, 2009 | Kansas City Public Library – Truman ForumCo-presented by the United Nations Association of Greater Kansas City, the Harry S. Truman Centerfor 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 GovernmentPanelists Arianna Huffington, co-founder, The Huffington Post

Robert Kuttner, author of Obama’s ChallengeTimothy Naftali, director, Nixon Presidential Library & Museum

Battery D ReunionNovember 11, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and MuseumFirst-ever gathering of descendants of WWI soldiers who served with or under “Captain Harry”

Veterans Day SaluteFeaturing U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton, Clifton Truman Daniel, and D. M. Giangreco, author of The Soldierfrom IndependenceNovember 11, 2009 | Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Truman Night with the Missouri MavericksNovember 20, 2009 | Independence Events CenterTruman-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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WildaboutHarry!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 aprogram that featured best-selling author and acclaimed political commentator Cokie Roberts. Other special guestsincluded Clifton Truman Daniel and Thomas Daniel (grandsons of Harry Truman) and members of their families; VadenBales and Susan Ford Bales (daughter of former President Ford); and the great-granddaughter of former PresidentHoover, Margaret Hoover, and her fiancee John Avlon.

The fundraiser, led by Honorary Chairs Adele and Donald Hall and Event Chairs Mary Shaw Branton andPage Branton Reed, was emceed by KCPT's Nick Haines and raised $330,000 in support of the TrumanLibrary'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 Wingunderwriters: Mary Shaw Branton and Family; DST Systems, Inc.; Adele and Donald Hall; Elaine and Norman Polsky;INERGY; and Beth K. Smith.

Honorary ChairsDon and Adele Hall

Event ChairsShawsie Branton Page Branton Reed

Steering CommitteeKristin J. AmendMary AtterburyHarvey BodkerCarolyn BondLori Burbidge RobertsKirk CarpenterPoo CokerMichele CrumbaughRichard Crumpton †Sharon DankenbringDean Davison

Patricia Davison Jill DeanAnn DickinsonSusie EvansColleen FoudreeCarol FreirichSharon GreenwoodJoy HobickMary HunkelerMartha ImmenschuhJudy JohnsonDonna Katz

Nancy Lee KemperKay MartinTom MartinBridget McCandlessMolly McGeeMaureen McMeelBarbara NelsonDonna PitmanDonna PittmanBarbara PottsCappy PowellMargo Quiriconi

Cathy SchultzJeanne SoslandSusan SpauldingBarbara UnellBob UnellJean WagnerEileen WeirTom WeirPolly Wolbach

WildaboutHarry!

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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 guestCokie Roberts and Event Co-Chairs Shawsie Branton* and Page BrantonReed*; keynoter Cokie Roberts; Jonathan* & Nancy Lee Kemper, Maija andMichael Devine*, John McMeel* Photos by Bruce Mathews

* Denotes a Truman Library Institute director or trustee

Keynote Address

SUSAN EISENHOWERGranddaughter of

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Inaugural Harry S. Truman Legacyof Leadership Award Recipient

JAMES A. BAKER, IIIFormer U.S. Secretary of State

THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2010

The Marriott-Muehlebach Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri

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

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

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

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I was six years old before I discovered that my grandfatherhad been President of the United States. That’s because my par-ents kept it from me. Up to that time, Grandpa Truman was justsomeone who came around from time to time and was either tobe accorded a great deal of respect or avoided entirely. And youavoided him because he had some very odd ideas about how chil-dren should spend their free time.

When I was very young, my grandparents often visited us atour Park Avenue apartment in New York. They actually stayeddown the street at the Carlyle Hotel on Madison, where my

mother, Margaret, had lived in the early 1950s while pursuing aradio and television career.

Grandpa kept to the same routine every morning. He got up be-fore the sun, a habit he acquired as a farmer, and went for a one-mile walk at a military pace, 120 steps per minute. He often saidthat any more than a mile walk each day didn’t do a man over 40any good. He then ate a light breakfast and grabbed as many differ-ent newspapers as the hotel offered. (He also said you couldn’t getan accurate picture of events from just one newspaper.) Tucking thepapers under his arm, he walked up the block to our apartment, lethimself in with the spare key, sat down in the living room, and read

Adventures withgrandpatruman

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

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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, wesaw what looked like The New York Times with a pair of legs,sitting by itself in the living room. We knew who was behind thepaper, so we started to tiptoe past him to get to the den wheremy parents kept the television set. Grandpa lowered the paperto 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 camedownstairs, her eyes half open and her hair standing on end,and stopped cold at the sight in her living room—her two smallboys, sitting stock still on either side of her father while he readto 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 afour-year-old and a two-year-old. I went home a few years agoto visit my mother and thought that if Grandpa considered

Thucydides so important, I should have another crack at him. Ifound the book—it’s actually Thucydides/Plato from a boxedset—opened it long enough to read the first half-page and putit right back on the shelf. Even at 47, it was tough going.

For my grandfather, however, history was indispensable. Whenhe was 6, my great-grandparents took him to a Fourth of July cel-ebration. At the end of the day, when the fireworks were explodingoverhead, Mama Truman noticed that Grandpa was looking in theother direction. Shortly afterward, she took him to the eye doctor,who diagnosed “flat eyeballs,” meaning Grandpa was very far-sighted. The thick glasses he wore for the rest of his life slowedhim down on the schoolyard, but they opened up a whole world tohim at the tips of his fingers. And Mama Truman didn’t stick comicbooks 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 Menand Famous Women. I think he was 9. One of his high schoolteachers recalled that Grandpa and his best friend and later presssecretary Charlie Ross tried to build a Roman wall across theschoolyard. Legend has it that by the time they finished highschool, he and Charlie had read every single one of the 2,000books in the Independence public library. (Secretary of StateDean Acheson put the number at 3,500, probably during an elec-tion year.) No wonder Grandpa thought that by age 4 I was behindin my Thucydides.

In addition to a love of history, I discovered that Grandpa alsobelieved his grandchildren should develop stiff spines. In the

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).

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dining room of our New York apartment, Ihad a hobbyhorse, the kind that sits on astand and is attached by springs at theknees. You can ride those things forwardand back, side to side, up and down. Youcan kill yourself on them, and I know thatbecause that’s what my mother was al-ways telling me I was going to do if Ididn’t slow down.

One morning, she wasn’t around.Grandpa and I were alone in the diningroom. I was riding like a madman, and hewas back behind The New York Times, ig-noring me completely. Mom always saidhe had total concentration when he wasreading. At home in Independence, whenthe three of them retired to the study afterdinner, Mom and Gammy, who loved agood argument, often started one.Grandpa, who just wanted peace andquiet, would read to the bottom of a page, mark the spot with afinger, and look up long enough to see if he was in immediateperil. If not, he read on. Otherwise, he moved to another room.No kindergartner on a hobbyhorse was going to distract him.

Mom’s dire prediction came to pass. I tipped the horse over. Ilanded on the floor and the contraption landed on top of me. Mygrandmother, who was in the kitchen, heard the commotion andcame running. When I saw her, I burst into tears. After all, it’sgood for a glass of milk and a cookie. She had almost reachedme when a voice from across the room said, “Stop right there.Don’t touch him.”

She did. And I looked up to see who had ruined this for me. Therewas Grandpa, glaring at me over the top of his New York Times.

“You,” he said. “Quit crying. You’re not hurt.”No adult had ever spoken to me that way. I stopped immediately.“Get up. Get that horse up. Get back on it and start riding it again.”I could not have moved faster. With Gammy’s help, I picked up

the horse and climbed back on. She went back to the kitchen,Grandpa went back behind the Times, and I rode very carefully forabout 30 seconds before slipping off and getting the hell out ofthere. As it turns out, my grandfather was nicer to me than his ownfather had been to him. When Grandpa was 6, he fell off a ponythat John Truman was leading around the pasture on the familyfarm. John, who knew his way around a barnyard, was disgusted.

“Any boy who can’t stay on a pony at a walk deserves to walkhimself,” he said and made Grandpa walk back to the house.

At least I was allowed to get back on.But as I said, I had no idea where a love of history and a stiff

spine had led my grandfather until I was in the first grade. And Ifound out the hard way. Someone walked up to me one day atschool and asked, “Wasn’t your grandfather president of theUnited States?” To which I brilliantly replied, “I don’t know.”

Mom used to love to tell people what happened that after-noon. She was reading in the living room when I came home,

dropped my books at the door, marchedover to her, and said:

“Mom, did you know . . .”“Yes,” she told me. “But just remember

something. Any little boy’s grandfather canbe president of the United States. Don’t letit go to your head.”

It didn’t. It went right over my head. Iwas 6, after all. When my daughter Aimeewas the same age, we were channel surf-ing one Saturday, trying to find somethingthat would appeal to a six-year-old and a36-year-old, when I stopped on a biogra-phy of Grandpa.

“Aimee,” I said. “That man right there onthe screen is Harry S. Truman, the 33rd presi-dent of the United States. He was your great-grandfather. What do you think of that?”

“Dad,” she said without a flicker of inter-est. “You passed Nickelodeon. Go back.”

(Aimee, by the way, is now a 21-year-old psychology majorwho still talks to me that way.)

It didn’t sink in for me what “President of the United States”meant until I was all of 7. Even then, it took seeing Lyndon BainesJohnson in his pajamas.

For years, I thought I was special, seeing President Johnson in hispajamas. It turns out, however, that he let almost everybody see himin his pajamas. A few years ago, I found a photo in the back of Smith-sonian magazine. There’s LBJ, propped up in bed, in his pajamas,with three guys in suits sitting at the foot of the bed, taking notes.

The occasion for me was the day after President Johnson’sJanuary 1965 inauguration. My grandparents had been invited tothe inauguration but had declined, asking instead if my mothercould represent them—and maybe take the family. PresidentJohnson said that would be just fine and arranged for us to stayin Blair House, across the street from the White House.

Many of you will recall that my grandparents and my motherlived in Blair House for nearly the entirety of Grandpa’s secondterm. At the time, the White House was rotten and falling apart.Grandpa first noticed it when he was downstairs in the State Din-ing Room and could see the chandelier quivering. Eventually, theleg of my mother’s piano went through the floor of her sittingroom, and it was discovered that the second floor was staying upmostly out of habit. During a more than three-year renovation,crews tore the building down to its exterior walls and rebuilt itfrom the inside out, bringing equipment in through a tunnel. Earlyon in the process, Grandpa took a group of reporters and photog-raphers on a tour, pointing out where steel rods had been runfrom the roof through the second floor to hold it up while prepa-rations were under way to move the First Family. New York Timesphotographer George Tames recalled that Grandpa stopped out-side his private bathroom where one of the rods had been runthrough the floor next to the toilet.

“You know, this thing scares me,” he said. “One evening I’m

“It didn’t sink in for me

what ‘President of the

United States’ meant

until I was all of 7.

Even then, it took seeing

Lyndon Baines Johnson

in his pajamas.”


going to be sitting in here and pull theplunger and wind up in the State DiningRoom. And the Marine Band will play Hail tothe Chief as I come through the ceiling.”

The day after President Johnson’s inau-guration, we were scheduled to havebreakfast with him and Lady Bird Johnsonin the White House family quarters. It tookus forever to get ready since we had toput on our best clothes, which for Williamand for me meant matching gray slacks,white shirts, blue blazers, and clip-on ties.After all, we were not only going to theWhite House, but we had a 10 a.m. trainback to New York, and you always dressedfor travel.

We arrived upstairs at the White Houseand, when the elevator door slid open, Iremember being nonplussed—and a littleput out—that the Johnsons apparentlyhad not had to go through the same morn-ing rigmarole. There stood the First Lady in a canary yellowdressing gown worn over a canary yellow nightgown and ca-nary yellow slippers. Every hair was in place, and her makeupwas perfect. It looked like she had been waiting for us outsidethe elevator all night long.

My mother was not nearly as chipper. In addition to ridingherd on a seven- and five-year-old, she’d had perhaps as long anight as the Johnsons.

There were four inaugural balls that year. Mom was the host-ess for the one at the Mayflower Hotel. Protocol dictated thatupon arrival, the President was to dance first with the hostess,then with his wife, and then with all the other wives. Then hehad to shake hands with all the men whose wives he’d beendancing with. Because it was so time-consuming, there was lit-tle room for dillydallying, which was why President Johnsonwas a bit concerned to find that there was no way to get mymother out of her VIP box onto the ballroom floor.

Many ballroom boxes are designed with doors leading directlyonto the dance floor. The Mayflower’s was not. To get out, youhad to leave by the door at the back of the box and walk down acorridor to one of the main ballroom doors. Upon arrival at theball that night, President Johnson found that there were hun-dreds of people between him and the door my mother wouldhave to use, so he wasted no time. He simply reached into thebox and hauled her out.

For years, I was given the impression that this was a delicateoperation with my mother simply floating over the box railing inthe arms of the president of the United States. That was until Ifound photos tucked into the back of a family photo album.There are arms and legs all over the place and it looked likeseveral Secret Service agents were involved.

It might have been even worse when it came time to put Momback because by that time, President Johnson had handed her

off to Vice President Hubert Humphrey,who was about half his size. Mr.Humphrey, however, wasted not an ounceof muscle on my mother. He simply calledfor a chair and held her hand while shestepped back by herself.

The next morning, after greeting us at theelevator, Mrs. Johnson led us down to theEast Sitting Hall, where coffee was servedand we waited for the president. Hestrolled out a few minutes later in his paja-mas, bathrobe, and slippers, and endearedhimself to us children by bypassing theadults and plunking down in front of us.

“How’d you boys like the tour of theWhite House the other day?” he asked.“Did you meet the dogs? I understand youwent to the National Air Museum. How wasthat?”

In the middle of the conversation, hesuddenly stood up and said, “I think I have

something you boys will like.”With that, he left, returning a few minutes later, his hands full

of everything he could find that had his name on it—stationery,envelopes, pens, pencils. It looked like he had cleaned out hisdesk. He started divvying up the loot. “One for you, one for you,two for you, two for you . . .” He’d almost finished when LadyBird Johnson reached across the table and snatched somethingout of his hands.

“Lyndon, for God’s sake,” she said. “You can’t give them those.”Apparently he’d tried to give us each a book of White House matches.(Years later, after I gave a speech at the Johnson Library in

Austin, Texas, Mrs. Johnson hosted a dinner for me on the library’stop floor. As the meal began, she announced that she had a smalltoken for me and asked me to hold out my hand, into which shedropped two books of matches from the LBJ Ranch.)

Back in 1965, my father looked at his watch and said, “Mr.President, we have to be going. We have a 10 o’clock train.”

“Aw, Cliff, relax,” the president said. “You have plenty of time.The train will wait.”

“For you, yes,” Dad said.“Don’t worry about it,” the president said. “Have another cup

of coffee.”Dad was actually in no hurry. He was managing editor of The

New York Times, in a private audience with the president of theUnited States, who was in his pajamas. What could be better?

Finally, though, he glanced at his watch again and bolted tohis feet. It was nearly 10 a.m. and we still had to get to UnionStation, about 10 minutes away. We fairly sprinted down thehall, piled into the elevator, and dove into the limousine waitingoutside. Even as the car shot through the White House gates, itwas past 10 o’clock.

“Well, what are we going to do now?” Dad said.This precipitated a tense discussion of options, including later

“Protocol dictated

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the President was

to dance first

with the hostess.”


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 no-ticed that the car wasn’t aiming for the front of Union Station butheading around back. Before any of us knew what was happening,we had pulled onto a train platform, which I had not known waspossible or even prudent. There on the platform was a porter witha baggage cart, a conductor holding a pocket watch and, behindthem, 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 hewas 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 hadonce run the country. My head grew three sizes, and I becameinsufferable for weeks.

Grandpa never had that problem with the presidency. He was inawe of the power, used it to the best of his ability, and refused tolet it go to his head. It didn’t define him, and he was happy to giveit up when the time came. He always said that in leaving the WhiteHouse, he was taking a step up, to U.S. citizen. Upon his arrivalback in Kansas City in 1953, someone asked him what the firstthing he planned to do in retirement was. Grandpa smiled andsaid, “Take the grips [suitcases] up to the attic.”

He concentrated on writing his memoirs and building his pres-idential library, but there were some things he refused to do,humble U.S. citizen or not. In the spring of 1953, my grand-mother got after him to mow the lawn, a chore he loathed.

“Look, pal,” I like to imagine her saying. “You’re not presidentof 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 somemore and finally he rolled up his shirtsleeves one morning, got outthe mower, and went at it. My grandmother looked out the windowand almost died. It was Sunday morning. Everyone else in townwas passing the house on their way to church and here was theex-president of the United States, mowing the grass, not going tochurch, and waving and calling to everyone to make sure theyknew 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 usedthe 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 re-tired, the Secret Service protection vanished. It was not extended toex-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

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 wherehe was or whose house he was approaching, the man walkedthrough the unlocked gate and up to the front door where herang 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 ami-

ably 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 nicetalking to you.”

The man got halfway down the front steps before he stoppedand turned.

“I hope you won’t take offense,” he said. “But you look a lotlike that son of a bitch Harry Truman.”

“No offense at all,” Grandpa said with wide grin. “I am thatson of a bitch.”

Clifton Truman Daniel is the oldest grandson of President Harry S. Trumanand is currently director of public relations for Harry S Truman College, oneof the seven City Colleges of Chicago. He is also honorary chairman of theboard of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute. A frequent speaker andfundraiser, he is author of the 1995 book, Growing Up With My Grandfather:Memories of Harry S. Truman.

"Grandpa" and "Gammy" with grandsons in New York City. The authoris pictured in the foreground.

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

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

“It takes learning out of the books and puts it in your face…

and I love it!”

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 themuseum 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!”

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

Programs That Change LivesThe Truman Library Institute is committed to helping America’s schools prepare our youth for a lifetime of active and informed citi-

zenship. President Truman knew that the health of our democracy is fundamentally tied to our understanding of history and govern-ment. Yet recent studies show that students are failing to grasp the significance of people, places and events in history. The programsand resources offered at the Truman Library seek to significantly raise the level of student achievement in this vital area of study, andto support teachers’ mastery of their subject areas with access to leading scholars, primary source materials, and best practices inteaching. 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, vi-sion and generosity of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

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During 2008-09, our educationprograms reached more than25,000 students and teachers.Countless others accessed theTruman Library’s invaluableonline resources and curricula.

• 8,780 guided Museum tours

• 5,774 White House DecisionCenter participants

• 2,824 Truman Footlocker users

• 403 National History Dayparticipants

• 4,181 participants ineducator workshops

• 3,500+ users of customizedclassroom based resources

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National History Day 403 students in grades 6-12 competed in the regional competition of the Na-tional History Day Contest on February 28, 2009. Three of our contestants received national recogni-tion at the finals in Maryland.

Presidential Trivia Contest On October 19, 2009, student teams from across Missouri tested theirknowledge 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 EducatorsNovember 7, 2009The Truman Library’s education team prepares area teachers to inspire and guide student participa-tion in the National History Day Contest. The theme for 2009 was The Individual in History; morethan 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 InstituteBetween the Wars, 1919-1939July 20-25, 2009Educators from across the nation attended the sixth annual Summer Institute. Focused on the theme Be-tween the Wars, 1919-1939, high school educators spent the week with scholars, historians, and eyewit-nesses to history studying a range of topics, including the Versailles Treaty, America in the 1920s, the GreatDepressions, 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 WorkshopFamous Kansas and MissouriansOctober 30-31, 2009Midwest teachers deepened their expertise and gained a wealth of classroomresources at the Fall Teachers Workshop, presented in cooperation with theNational Archives at Kansas City and the Jackson County Historical Society.

MORE RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS

Conferences/Teacher In-services – The nationally recognized educationstaff frequently are invited to present programs on Truman-era history andthe teaching of social studies.

Curriculum Kits – Packaged curricula, ready for classroom use, offer sec-ondary educators interactive learning modules on the Cold War, Presiden-tial 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 de-livered to 10,500 educators, free of charge.

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Since it first opened its Research Room in 1959, the Truman Library has welcomed nearly 14,000 historians, writersand scholars representing more than 40 nations and nearly every state in the Union. From the start, the Truman Library Instituteprovided modest grants-in-aid for researchers. Today, Research Grants, Dissertation Year Fellowships, and the biennial Scholar’sAward and Harry S. Truman Book Award provide assistance to emerging scholars whose contributions illuminate the critical issues ofTruman’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, 1937-1947James R. Blackstone, Doctoral Candidate in History, Clare College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, The Influence of the Senate

Republican Right Upon American Foreign Policy, 1950-54Zeynep G. Capan, Doctoral Candidate in International Studies, Hautes Etudes Internationales, Turkey, Narratives of the Cold WarMichael 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 1946-1964Barbara J. Falk, Associate Professor, Department of Defence Studies, Canadian Forces College/Royal Military College of Canada, Cold War

Political JusticeDeng 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 LiteratureAmy L. Fluker, Masters Thesis in History, University of Mississippi, The Buck Stops Where?: Atomic Accountability and the Truman

Administration in Public History and MemoryPaul Ham, Journalist, The Sunday Times, Sydney, Australia, HiroshimaSam Herley, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Formation of Indian Tribal Termination Policies During the

Truman Administration, 1945-1953: ViewpointsMats 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 MaterialsMelvin S. Lebe, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of California, Los Angeles, The United States and the United Nations during the

Truman AdministrationSam Lebovic, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Chicago, The Problem of the Press and the Making of Cold War FreedomRobin 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 1945Joel 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 IIRobert 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, 1945-1975Brandon P. Seto, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of California, Santa Barbara, Filling the Spiritual Vacuum: American Christianity

and the Occupation of JapanPatrick Slaney, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of British Columbia, Canada, Inventing the Scientific Community: Science,

Democracy and Freedom in America, 1945-58Tyler Turek, Masters Thesis in History, University of Ottawa, Canada, Two Solitudes: Canada, the United States, National Security and the

Korean War, 1948-1951Robert D. Van Horn, Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University, The Genesis of the Chicago School of Antitrust, 1946-1955Jenifer Van Vleck, Doctoral Candidate in History, Yale University, No Distant Places: Aviation and Global American CenturyJaclyn 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 ofAppeals and Supreme Court Nominees

Dissertation Year FellowshipDean 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 acommittee of Truman scholars, the award recognizes the best book published in 2008 or 2009 that deals primarily with Truman’spublic career and/or U.S. history between 1945 and 1953. Past recipients include Dean Acheson (1970); Walter Isaacson, presidentand CEO of the Aspen Institute (1988); and John Lewis Gaddis, noted historian of the Cold War (2006). Here, we highlight some of thecontenders for the prestigious 2010 award. Consider adding these titles to your reading list.

Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story ofa Great American Road TripMatthew Algeo, Chicago Review Press, 2008Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to ArmsDenise M. Bostdorff, Texas A&M University Press, 2008Douglas MacArthur: Statecraft and Stagecraft inAmerica’s East Asian PolicyRussell D. Buhite, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, andPublic Opinion in the United States, 1950-53Steven Casey*, Oxford University Press, 2008The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the BerlinAirlift and America’s Finest HourAndrei Cherney, Putnam, 2008Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’sSoviet ExpertsDavid C. Engerman, Oxford University Press, 2009The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold WarCampbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko, Yale UniversityPress, 2008Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion ofJapan, 1945-1947D. M. Giangreco, Naval Institute Press, 2009The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biographyof Harry TrumanD. M. Giangreco, Zenith Press, 2009American Blacklist: The Attorney General’s List ofSubversive OrganizationsRobert J. Goldstein*, University Press of Kansas, 2008Truman’s Whistle Stop CampaignSteven R. Goldzwig*, Texas A&M University Press, 2008Legerdemain, The President’s Secret Plan: The Bomb,and What the French Never KnewJames J. Heaphey, History Publishing Co, LLC, 2008Honorable Survivor: Mao’s China, McCarthy’s America,and the Persecution of John S. ServiceLynne Joiner*, Naval Institute Press, 2009

Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision toUse the Bomb Against JapanSean Malloy, Cornell University Press, 2008Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World OrderRobert J. McMahon*, Potomac Books, Inc., 2008Truman and MacArthur: Policy, Politics, and theHunger for Honor and RenownMichael D. Pearlman, Indiana University Press, 2008A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of IsraelAllis and Ronald Radosh*, Harper Collins Publishing, 2009Hiroshima: The World’s BombAndrew J. Rotter*, Oxford University Press, 2008Allies Against the Rising Sun: The United States, theBritish Nations, and the Defeat of Imperial JapanNicholas Evan Sarantakes*, University Press of Kansas, 2009Creating the National Security State: A History of theLaw that Transformed AmericaDouglas T. Stuart, Princeton University Press, 2009The Berlin Airlift: The Salvation of a CityJon Sutherland and Diane Caldwell, Pelican Publishing, 2008The American Nuclear Disarmament Dilemma, 1945-1963David Tal*, Syracuse University Press, 2008A President, a Church, and Trails West: CompetingHistories in Independence, MissouriJon Taylor*, University of Missouri Press, 2008Inventing the “American Way”: The Politics of Consensusfrom the New Deal to the Civil Rights MovementWendy L. Wall*, Oxford University Press, 2008America’s Cold War: The Politics of InsecurityCampbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall, Belknap Press ofHarvard University Press, 2009Constructing the Monolith: The United States, GreatBritain, and International Communism, 1945Marc Selverstone, Harvard University Press, 2009

* Former Truman Library Institute grant recipients

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Throughout his long life, Harry S. Truman thought,wrote, and spoke about history. For Truman, history had ameaning that went beyond a casual interest. It provided himethical and moral guidance and was a tool that he used to makedecisions, most notably as president of the United States duringhis two terms of office, 1945 - 1953. As a student of Trumanhas put it, Truman “internalized” history and looked to the pastalmost reflexively whenever a problem or issue arose.

Harry Truman’s interest in history is well documented. Butwhat has not been examined comprehensively are the les-sons that Truman learned from history: those he learned in

school, those he learned in life, and those he drew upon tomake decisions during his political career, especially aspresident. In my analysis of Harry Truman’s tremendouslyrich documentary written and spoken record, I conclude thathe learned the following lessons from history.

Lesson 1: Democracy is FragileHarry Truman’s reading of history demonstrated for him the

fragile and temporal nature of democratic government. After heleft the presidency in 1953, he envisioned a presidential librarythat would be “a center for the study of the presidency.” In1959 he wrote to Stanley Whiteway, a Pennsylvania residentand donor to Truman’s presidential library, that if young people

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–Memoirs by Harry S. Truman, vol. I (1955)

L to R: The Truman Committee, 1942; Truman with a visibly frail FDR,1944; senior class, Independence High School, 1901.


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“do not understand and appreciate what they have it will go theway of the Judges of Isreal [sic], the city states of Greece, thegreat Roman Republic and the Dutch Republic.”

Truman was fascinated by the accomplishments of the found-ing fathers, whose own study of the history of Greece and othernations had led them to form a republican form of governmentthat was able to avoid the fate of other republics in history: theturn toward dictatorship as a result of corrupt leadership. “Howdid [the Founders] ever come to do this?” he pondered. And theConstitution had only been amended 22 times, with two badamendments—Prohibition and the two-term limitation of apresident’s term. Although the 22nd amendment, which im-posed a two-term limit upon the president, did not apply to Tru-man, he disliked it for constitutional reasons. He often referredto the Federalist Papers written by Alexander Hamilton, JamesMadison, and John Jay to explain and defend the new Constitu-tion. In Truman’s view, a president should be permitted to beelected to as many terms as the people wished.

Lesson 2: Democratic government has a moral basisTruman found in history the central lesson of good citizenship:

service to others. Familiar with George Washington’s thoughtson the subject of public service, Truman told members of theReserve Officers Association that “every man who lives under agovernment that is controlled by the people owes that govern-ment certain service. Not only does he owe that service in amilitary way, if it becomes necessary, but he owes service to hisgovernment as a civilian.” Whether at the national, state or locallevel, one should “serve the United States Government in what-ever capacity he is fitted to serve it.”

Lesson 3: Find leadership qualities to emulate and to avoidTruman’s reading focused on biography, which provided keys to

leadership. In a 1934 autobiographical manuscript written whilehe was presiding judge of Jackson County (an administrative, notjudicial, post), Truman observed that great men’s first victorieswere won “over themselves and their carnal urges. Self-disciplinewith all of them came first.” Among those leaders he admired

were the Roman general Cincinnatus, the Carthaginian generalHannibal, the Persian leader Cyrus the Great, George Washington,and Robert E. Lee. He was not fond of men such as Alexander theGreat or Napoleon. “I could never admire a man whose only inter-est is himself.” Furthermore, leaders had to lead, not follow pub-lic whim. Leadership of the kind that Jesus, Moses, and MartinLuther offered was based on right and wrong, not on polls oropinion of the moment.

Lesson 4: Recognize internal and external threats to democracyIn addition to shaping Harry Truman’s views of democracy, cit-

izenship, and leadership, history helped him understand thechallenges to the democratic form of government. Truman wasnot sanguine about communism and the threat it posed todemocracy. He was just as anticommunist as his Republican op-ponents, but his understanding of history provided a longerview. Plutarch’s Lives gave him the insight that “it was thesame 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 andbigotry posed. Bigots and vocal minorities such as the Ku KluxKlan caused trouble because they wanted direct action and didnot understand the representative nature of American govern-ment. But Truman had faith in the fundamental goodness of theAmerican people. “Common sense usually overcomes the wholething and it’ll come around alright,” he said. “All demagoguesget their come-uppance before they get through.”

Lesson 5: Do not trust historiansConfident in his own knowledge of history, President Truman

had no “court historian” in his administration, unlike PresidentJohn Kennedy, who had Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and PresidentLyndon Johnson, who employed Eric Goldman. This was a curi-ous decision, given Truman’s deep interest in history and hislack of a college education and professional training in the sub-ject. It also was an exception to his willingness to solicit andaccept advice in almost every other field in which he was notan expert.

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.

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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. Inaddition, several historians, including Schlesinger, served on theTruman Library Institute staff during Truman’s lifetime.

Lesson 6: History is marked by continuity and progressTruman saw continuity in American history; human nature had

changed little over the centuries, and the genius of the AmericanConstitution lay in its establishment of checks and balances thatpreserved the republican form of government against passions—cycles of hysteria—generated and exploited by demagogues.

Seeing continuity put his own problems in perspective and al-lowed him not to overreact. For example, when Truman re-flected on press attacks on him, he recalled that Washington,Jefferson, and Jackson, among others, had suffered a similarfate. As he told his cousin, Ethel Noland, he “had it easy bycomparison,” even though he did get angry at the media’s treat-ment of him. Truman saw progress in history. “History is a storyof improvement even if there are setbacks.” His optimism wasconsistent with his faith in progress. “Of course, you’ve got tobe an optimist if you are going to try to help the country go for-ward. There’s no pessimist that ever did anything for the wel-fare of the world, I don’t care who he was.”

Lesson 7: Progress occurs in cyclesTruman repeatedly referenced the cycles he saw in American

history. On December 29, 1952, Arthur Schlesinger went toWashington, D.C. to pay his respects to the outgoing president.Schlesinger reported that Truman “was very cheerful, scrubbedand natty.” But all was not well in the mind of the president,who was much concerned about the state of civil liberties in thecountry. He told Schlesinger that he had feared “hysteria” of thekind that always occurred after wars. Truman cited the CitizenGenêt episode after the Revolutionary War, the rise of the KuKlux Klan after the Civil War, and the A. Mitchell Palmer raidsafter World War I. He hoped the country might avoid it this time,a reference to the ongoing Korean War. However, the concernsabout McCarthyism that Truman expressed to Schlesinger werenowhere to be found in the president’s rather upbeat farewelladdress less than three weeks later.

During his lectures at Columbia University on April 29, 1959,former President Truman placed McCarthyism within thebroader cycles of “witch-hunting” and hysteria that he believedhad beset the United States since its earliest history. “There areperiods,” he told the students, “in which some demagogue candirect attention to something that’s absolutely good and harm-less and make something out of it so he can stir people up forhis own welfare and aggrandizement. We’ve just had that re-cently. We just got through this period of McCarthyism, whichwas one of the worst that this country ever suffered from.” Hewarned students that they, too, would face future demagogues.

Lesson 8: Each generation must learn history’s lessonsHarry Truman was not Pollyanna about what history could

teach. He told Merle Miller, “The next generation never learnsanything from the previous one until it’s brought home with ahammer.” He added, “I’ve wondered why the next generationcan’t profit from the generation before but they never do untilthey get knocked in the head by experience.” Handed-down wis-dom was not accepted until a crisis proved its wisdom. Thismeant that each generation, in its hubris, had to learn thispainful lesson because it did not think that the past had anythinguseful to teach it.

Lesson 9: Individuals matterIf 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’sLives, Truman concluded that “men made history.” And he had hisfavorites. Truman’s papers include a list of history-makers, writtenon U.S. Senate stationery during his short term as vice president.At the top of the list was Alexander the Great. Second was Hanni-bal, followed by Napoleon, and Stonewall Jackson. Next to eachname was the age at which they had assumed power or were atthe height of their power. Many were between 25 and 30; GenghisKahn was “between 44 & 54.” Perhaps Truman, at age 60, waswondering if there was still time to make his mark. As historywould prove, the answer was yes.

Samuel W. Rushay, Jr., is supervisory archivist at the Truman Library andMuseum, where he worked as an archivist from 1993 to1997.

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


L to R: Truman campaigning with McGovern, 1956; students visit the President on his 86th birthday, 1970; women from New York State rally for Truman, 1948.

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special viewing of Truman125: A Lifein Photographs; (3) Donald and Adele

Hall at the May 7 Toasting Trumanreception; (4) Paget Higgins visits with

Truman Library Director MichaelDevine at a reunion for descendants ofBattery D; (5) Mary and John Hunkeler,Janet and Marshall Miller, Barbara and

Allen Lefko, Mary and MichaelJohnston, Sandy Moses and Harvey

Bodker, Connie and Harry Jonas, andStacia Stelk and Alex Burden at a VIPreception at the Kennedy Presidential

Library and Museum; (6) MaryJohnston and Betsey Solberg with

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Mary Johnston in Boston; (12) CliftonTruman Daniel with the daughters of

Eddie Jacobson, Elinor Borenstine andGloria Schusterman.

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Buck Stops Here SocietyPremier memberships start at $1,000. Benefits include invitations toexhibit openings and exclusive travel opportunities, VIP restricted-access 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 allHonorary Fellows benefits. CALL (816) 268-8237 TO LEARN MORE.

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

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

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

Tribute GiftsGifts made in honor or in memory of a loved one are recognized in theTruman Library Institute’s annual report; recipients receivedistinguished notification of your thoughtfulness.

Estate GiftsIf you have named the Truman Library Institute in your will or estateplan, please let us know so we can welcome you to The LegacySociety. Or call to discuss planned gift options with one of ourknowledgeable estate counselors. (816) 268-8246

Presidential Gift AnnuityWith a charitable gift annuity you can make a significant gift to Truman’slegacy and presidential library and still receive an income for yourself orothers. CALL ALEX BURDEN AT (816) 268-8243 TO LEARN MORE.

Volunteers From guiding tours to assisting in the archives and museumcollections, Truman Library volunteers play a vital role and enjoy anannual travel opportunity and recognition banquet. FOR CURRENTOPPORTUNITIES, PLEASE CALL DONNA DENSLOW AT (816) 268-8239.

InternshipsTruman Library internships offer distinctive experience to students workingtoward careers as archivists, historians and museum administrators. TOLEARN MORE, VISIT TRUMANLIBRARY.ORG OR CALL DONNA DENSLOW AT (816)268-8239.

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2010 HighlightsCelebrating BessThe 125th Birthday of First Lady Bess Wallace TrumanSaturday, February 13, 2010

11 a.m. | “Young Bess in Hats”

2 p.m. | “Dear Harry…Love Bess”Featuring Clifton Truman Daniel

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Talkin’ Truman SeriesEvery 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

May 8 | Uncle Harry

June 12 | Memories of Korea

July 10 | Spies and Subversives in the Dawn of the Atomic Age

August 7 | Brother Truman: The Masonic Life of Harry Truman

September 11 | In the Kitchen with Bess Truman

October 9 | Meet the President

November 13 | Screen Gems

December 11 | Christmas at the White House

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January 20: Truman is inaugurated for hissecond term as president. In his inauguraladdress, he calls for a “bold new program” to helpunderprivileged peoples of the earth (Point IVProgram). August 10: Truman signs the National SecurityAct Amendment, establishing a unifiedDepartment of Defense.

1949

April 11: Truman relievesMacArthur of all posts ascommander of Americanand U. N. forces in theFar East for makingstatements critical of thegovernment’s militaryand foreign policies inthat area.

1951

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

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January 20: Trumanattends the inauguration ofPresident Eisenhower andthen leaves by train forIndependence, Missouri.Truman begins works on histwo-volume memoirs: Yearof Decisions (1955) andYears of Trial and Hope(1956).

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60th Anniversary of the Korean War2010 marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the KoreanWar. Programs and exhibits offered to commemorate thisimportant anniversary include…

Special ExhibitionMemories of KoreaMarch 27 – December 31, 2010

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

Korean War Conference SeriesThe Truman Legacy in East Asia: Japan, China and the Two KoreasMay 14-15, Key West, Florida

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

New Documents and Histories: 21st Century Perspectives onthe Korean WarJune 16-17, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Korean Veterans CommemorationDetails 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)

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Alice & JohnChapman

Steve ChaseMyrle & Jack

ChastainJolene ClarkSandra ColyerCheryl ComptonAmy CrossleyHarry DafferNell Danner

Judy DinglerRon DoeringFrances DuncanMarjorie DurkeeMarietta FeatherJudy FundisChristina GoldingLaurie GronskeiLeslie HagensenJoAnn HatchJim Howk

Dolores HunterRuby JamesSusan JonesJack KammertMary KeernsLani KirschJo KleinmanLinda KobeJoan KolichKathy LeeBeverly Lindsey

Dena LoveVirginia MaglichJaneal MathesonDoris McCartneyJean & Cliff

McCormickJoAnn McInnesJoan & Tim MengAmy MoormanBill NaylorPat Nickle

Katherine NovakRic & Sara NymanCurt OldroydJack PerneMildred PolcBob PotterCarolyn ReeceBarb SchmittJamie SchwarzLarry SebbyDon Smith

Pat SpillmanBill StrautmanJudy SturgessMike SummersBob TobiaChristl WebsterArlene & Karl WelchRita WhiteEileen WilcoxJoann & Bob Wilson

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

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VolunteersFrom the earliest days of the Truman Library, when Harry Truman himself trained the Museum docents, volunteers have played anintegral part in the success of his presidential library. In FY09, 80 volunteers contributed 5,663 hours of service in virtually everydepartment – from education to archives, museum docent to marketing support. The following volunteers served the Truman Libraryin FY09, October 1, 2008 – September 30, 2009.

Don BrownSteve ChaseAmy Crossley

Nell DannerRon DoeringFrances Duncan

Joann HatchDolores HunterMary Keerns

Jo KleinmanKathy LeeDoris McCartney

Bill NaylorJack PerneMildred Polc

Carolyn ReeceDon SmithArlene Welch

Karl WelchBob WilsonJoann Wilson

1,000 Club MembersThe following volunteers have contributed a minimum of 1,000 hours of service. Congratulations to these dedicated members of the1,000 Club.

FY09 InternsSarah Bell

Joyce BurnerAbby Day

Louise HiltonEvan Holland

Will HoytKate Morton

Philip NicolausPaige Pennington

Shawn PetersBarry Skelton

Jason Wilhelmsen

Internship ProgramWith support from the Truman Library Institute, the internship program of the Truman Library offers distinguished experience tostudents working toward careers as archivists, historians and museum administrators.

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

May 8: On his 71st birthday, Trumanbreaks ground for the constructionof a privately financed Harry S.Truman Library building.August 12: The PresidentialLibraries Act is signed, authorizingthe General Services Administrationto accept the papers of U. S.presidents, and the land, buildings,and equipment that are offered for a“Presidential archival depository.”

April 21: Trumanattends themarriage of hisdaughter, MaryMargaret, to E.Clifton Daniel, Jr., well-knownnewspaperman, in TrinityEpiscopal Church,Independence, Missouri. Fourgrandsons will be born.

May 11 - July 3: Harryand Bess tour Europe,meeting with a number ofEuropean leaders,including Winston Churchilland Pope Pius XII. Truman

receives numerous honors, including anhonorary degree from Oxford University.July 6: Truman participates in the dedication ofthe Harry S. Truman Library in Independence,Missouri.

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Truman publishes Mr.Citizen, his post-presidential memoir.October 8 -November 4: Trumanconducts a vigorousnational speaking tourin support ofpresidential candidateJohn F. Kennedy.

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May 29: A large statue of Trumanis unveiled in Athens, Greece,commemorating Truman as one ofGreece’s “greatest benefactors.”November 26: Truman attends thefuneral of President Kennedy andmeets afterward with Eisenhower,affecting, to the press, a final“reconciliation” between these twoformer 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 Venturesincludes public and education program revenues

$10,602 Misc Other

TOTAL $2,486,728

EXPENSES$848,148 Programs, Exhibits, Education

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$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

May 8: Truman becomes the first formerpresident to address the U. S. Senate whileit is in formal session. The Senate honorshim on his 80th birthday.July 30: President Johnson signs theMedicare bill at the Truman Library. Mr.and Mrs. Truman will receive Medicareregistration cards numbers one and two inJanuary 1966. On his Medicareapplication form, Truman writes “Farmer”on the line next to “Former Occupation.”

July 4: Trumanmakes his lastappearance as aspeaker at theeighth annualJuly 4thcelebration on theTruman Librarygrounds.

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October 12:Truman looks onas PresidentJohnson signs abill, in the

Truman home, designatingOctober 24, 1968 as U. N. Day. Thepresident also issues a proclamationnoting Truman’s part in creating theUnited Nations organization in 1945.

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December 29: With Bess,Margaret, and son-in-law E.Clifton Daniel, Trumantours his presidentiallibrary for the lasttime.

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December 26: Truman diesat the age of 88.

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We thank all of those who contributed generously during Fiscal 2009. Contributions help the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library andMuseum remain a crown jewel among our nation’s most valued heritage sites. Listed below are gifts received between October 1, 2008, andSeptember 30, 2009. We apologize for any errors or omissions. Please contact Kim Rausch at (816) 268-8237 or [email protected] with any corrections.

The Buck Stops Here Society is the premier membership program of the Truman Library Institute. Annual membership gifts, starting at $1,000,provide vital support for world-class traveling exhibitions, acclaimed educational programs, and public forums featuring national and internationalopinion leaders. To learn more, please contact Kim Rausch, director of development, at (816) 268-8237.

Buck Stops Here Society

Heads of StateAmerican Century Fdn.DST Systems, Inc.

Cabinet MembersKristen and Wesley JasinskiMorton MandelMarriott Hotel - Kevin PistilliEstelle and Morton SoslandCenterpoint Medical Center-

Carolyn CaldwellSusie and Bob EvansDorothy and Milton KayleJean and Tom McDonnellRoger NovakGloria SchustermanBeth SmithBetsey and Rick SolbergJeanne and Charlie Sosland

West Wing CouncilCommerce Bank -

Jonathan KemperBetty and Richard C.†

CrumptonJill and Marshall Dean, Jr.Shirley and Barnett HelzbergMary and John HunkelerKansas City Power & Light -

Elizabeth DanforthNancy and Herb KohnBarbara and Allen LefkoSusan and John McMeelBarbara and Bill NelsonJeannette NicholsJ. B. Reynolds Fdn. - Phil BixbySusan and Tuck SpauldingMargie and Keith WeberUMB Bank, N.A. - Clyde WendelCheryl and Bernard Williams

Presidential AidesMary and Alan AtterburyGeorge K. Baum Fdn. -

Jonathan BaumJoan and Bert BerkleyMarcia and Eliot BerkleyRae Block †Harvey BodkerElinor BorenstineMary Shaw BrantonJane and Dick BrueningJoni and Thornton Cooke, IIBunni and Paul CopakenJerry and Vernon DavidsonSam Devinki and Mary StahlWayne DeForgeNancy and John DillinghamRuth and Hugh EvansJo Ann FieldSandra and Gregory Galvin

Jeanne and Larry GatesJune and Sam HamraConnie and Harry JonasKathleen and Richard KirkendallPamela and Louis LaMarraJeanie and Bob LatzRobert LyonsPatricia and Michael MannersGeorge ManosMolly McGeeJill and Tom McGee, Jr.Larry McMullenRonay and Richard MenschelJanet and Marshall MillerCappy and Peter PowellJoyce and Donald RumsfeldMiriam and Daniel ScharfRose StolowyTawani Fdn. - Edward TracyJean and Don Wagner

Susan and Michael WaldeckHelen and Frank WewersKelly WoestmanEllen and Jerry Wolf

Donor Honor Roll$100,000 to $499,999Anonymous DonorMr. and Mrs. Michael J.

JohnstonEwing Marion Kauffman Fdn.National Endowment for the

Humanities

$50,000 to $99,999Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Hall, Sr.William T. Kemper Fdn.James B. Nutter & CompanyMr. and Mrs. Norman PolskyMr. and Mrs. John J. Sherman

$25,000 to $49,999DST Systems, Inc.Courtney S. Turner Charitable

Trust

$10,000 to $24,999Mary Shaw Branton & Family

CPS Fdn.Francis Family Fdn.Dr. and Mrs. John D. HunkelerInergyKansas City SouthernM.R. and Evelyn Hudson Fdn.The McDonnell Fdn.Novak Birks, P.C.Edwin W. Pauley Fdn.J. B. Reynolds Fdn.

$5,000 to $9,999Andrews McMeel Universal Fdn.Anonymous DonorBlueCross BlueShield

of Kansas CityMr. and Mrs. Herbert BuchbinderCenterpoint Medical CenterCommerce Bank of Kansas CityMr.† and Mrs. Richard CrumptonMr. and Mrs. Marshall Dean, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Evans

Hallmark Cards, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Barnett C.

Helzberg, Jr.Hesed Fdn.Husch Blackwell Sanders LLPMr. and Mrs. Milton P. KayleKC Impact FundR. C. Kemper Charitable Trust

and Fdn.Mr. and Mrs. Allen L. LefkoMrs. Barbara Hall MarshallMr. and Mrs. Thomas A.

McDonnellUniversity of Missouri at

ColumbiaMr. and Mrs. William C. NelsonMr. and Mrs. Peter E. PowellMr. and Mrs. William M. ReislerMrs. Gloria SchustermanMr. and Mrs. Frederick M.

SolbergThe Sosland Fdn.

Mr. and Mrs. Morton I. SoslandSpaulding Family Fdn.Temple, Congregation B’nai

JehuduhTruman Heartland Community Fdn.UMB Bank, N.A.Mr. and Mrs. William D. Wagner

$3,000 to $4,999Anonymous Cash GiftsAtterbury Family Fdn.Bank MidwestBank of AmericaBartlett & Company Grain

Charitable Fdn.George K. Baum & CompanyMr. Harvey S. BodkerChildren’s Mercy Hospitals and

ClinicsGary Dickinson Family Charitable

Fdn.J.E. Dunn Construction

Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Fdn.Kansas City ChiefsIsaac and Minnie Katz Fdn.The Key West Harry S. Truman

Fdn.Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. KohnLathrop & Gage L.C.Dr. Nancy Newhouse and

Dr. Paul McGrawMrs. Jeannette NicholsVeterans of Foreign WarsWaddell & ReedDr. and Mrs. Bernard Williams

$1000 to $2999Mr. and Mrs. Alan L. AtterburyBank of America Matching Gifts

ProgramDr. and Mrs. Eliot S. BerkleyH & R Block Fdn.Mrs. Elinor BorenstineMr. and Mrs. Richard P. Bruening

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FoudreeMr. and Mrs. David FreirichMr. and Mrs. J. Peter GattermeirMs. Sara E. Groves and

Mr. Robert D. FirnhaberMr. and Mrs. David E. HallMr. and Mrs. Donald J. Hall, Jr.Hall Family Fdn.Mr. and Mrs. Sam F. HamraDr. Susan M. HartmannMr. and Mrs. J. Randall HedlundShirley and Barnett Helzberg Fdn.Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M.

Higgins, IIIMr. and Mrs. David ImmenschuhDr. and Mrs. Harry S. JonasJoyce and Donald Rumsfeld Fdn.Kansas City Power & LightDr. and Mrs. Richard S.

KirkendallMr. and Mrs. Louis LaMarraMr. and Mrs. James E. LyonsMr. Robert P. LyonsMr. and Mrs. John A. MacDonaldMr. and Mrs. Robert Mackle, Jr.Mr. George ManosMr. and Mrs. Thomas MartinMrs. Marjorie N. MartinMcCownGordon ConstructionMs. Molly A. McGeeMr. and Mrs. Thomas R. McGee, Jr.Mr. Larry L. McMullenMs. Mary Kay McPhee and

Mr. William E. PfeifferMr. and Mrs. Marshall V. MillerMr. and Mrs. Steven PackPark UniversityMr. and Mrs. W. Keith PenceMr. and Mrs. Nicholas K. PowellThe PrivateBankMr. and Mrs. Robert D. Regnier/

Bank of Blue ValleyMr. and Mrs. Michael Schultz

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$500 to $999Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. AdamsMrs. Gerald D. AurbachMs. Sara Deubner and

Dr. Linton T. BaylessBelagroup LLCMr. and Mrs. David H. BennettMr. and Mrs. Willard L. BoydThe Hon. Joe Pierron and Dr.

Diana Carlin PierronMr. and Mrs. Rudy De LeonMr. and Mrs. Ron EimanDr. and Mrs. Michael FedotinMrs. Florence M. FordemwaltMr. and Mrs. James W. ForemanMr. and Mrs. William D. GrantMiss Hortense GreenleyMrs. Frances Flowers and Mr.

William HaegeleMr. and Mrs. John D. Hickok, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Greg JulianMr. and Mrs. Paul D. KaplanMr. and Mrs. Bruce J. KrigelMr. and Mrs. Drew LobodaThe Hon. and Mrs. Michael W.

MannersMs. Elaine P. MeitusMrs. Alice MillerRev. Wilson D. MiscambleMitchell Capital Management

CompanyDr. and Mrs. Dale A. NeumanDr. and Mrs. Donald PottsMr. and Mrs. Bruce A. ReedMr. and Mrs. R. Scott SmithMrs. Jane TaylorMrs. Louis W. Truman

$250 to $499Mr. and Mrs. William J. AmendAnonymous DonorsMr. and Mrs. Richard P. Atlas

Mr. and Mrs. Vaden BalesMr. and Mrs. Bryant P. BarnesMr. and Mrs. Clay R. BauskeDr. and Mrs. Michael T. BensonMrs. Gloria BlockMr. and Mrs. Robert K. BonarDr. and Mrs. A. Michael BorkonMr. and Mrs. James BrunkhardtMrs. Ina J. BryanMr. and Mrs. George BuchmanMr. and Mrs. William BundschuMr. and Mrs. Alex BurdenMr. and Mrs. Gene CableBrig. General and Mrs. Jack L.

CappsThe Hon. and Mrs. Harold L.

CaskeyMr. Edward S. Chandler, Sr.Mr. John M. Purcell and

Dr. Teri Lea Chandler-PurcellMr. and Mrs. Bill CobleMrs. Patricia CouperDr. and Mrs. Leodis DavisDr. and Mrs. Michael J. DevineRonald Downey ConstructionMr. and Mrs. Don R. ElliottMr. George M. ElseyEmbarq Matching Gifts ProgramMr. and Mrs. Charles P. FischbachMr. Jeff FortierMr. and Mrs. Robert J. GarnerDr. and Mrs. Fred M. GilhousenMr. and Mrs. James GoetzMr. and Mrs. Ronald W.

GoldsmithMr. and Mrs. Bruce GreinerDr. and Mrs. Robert HansonMr. and Mrs. Michael R. HavertyHealth Benefits ProfessionalsMr. John C. HenshawMr. and Mrs. Mike HobickMr. and Mrs. Thomas HoenigMr. and Mrs. Michael G. HoweMr. and Mrs. Graham T. HuntCity of IndependenceMr. and Mrs. Edward M. IrelandMr. and Mrs. David F. JensenMr. and Mrs. George E. KapkeKimak’s Pest Control, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. William B. KortMr. and Mrs. Steve LanardThe Richard M. & Carol H. Levin

Fdn.Mr. Richard M. Levin

Mr. and Mrs. William M. LyonsMr. and Mrs. Paul MartinMs. Sue E. MasicaMr. and Mrs. Bruce MathewsMr. and Mrs. Albert P. Mauro, Sr.Mr. and Mrs. David E. MaytaMr. Dennis Taylor and

Dr. Bridget McCandlessMr. and Mrs. Michael L.

McCartneyMr. and Mrs. Ted McGradeDr. and Mrs. Gerald McManusMr. and Mrs. Harold S. MelcherMr. and Mrs. Thomas MentzerDr. and Mrs. James E. MillerMr. and Mrs. Jerry MillerMr. and Mrs. Phil MillerMs. Melanie R. MoentmannDr. and Mrs. Mark C. MyronMr. and Mrs. Richard NadeauMr. and Mrs. Ron NolanMr. and Mrs. Bernard O’DonnellMr. and Mrs. Howard B. PenrodMr. and Mrs. Richard H. RaneyMr. and Mrs. Robert Reintjes, Sr.Mr. and Mrs. David N. RevierMrs. Ann H. RichMs. Mary H. RoeMr. and Mrs. James F. RogersMr. and Mrs. Mike SandersMr. and Mrs. Gerald D. ScallionsDr. and Mrs. Daniel L. ScharfMr. and Mrs. Charles J.

Schmelzer, IIIMs. Lee Williams and Mr. Brent

SchondelmeyerMr. and Mrs. Bob ScottMr. Jonathan J. SeagleMr. and Mrs. Maurice L. SmithDr. and Mrs. Wilber Spalding, Jr.Ms. Barbara Paddock and

Mr. Jordan SprechmanStepp & Rothwell, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. John S. ThorntonDr. David TillemaMs. Margaret TompkinsMrs. Patricia UhlmannConsul General Sharon ValasekMr. and Mrs. Joel D. VileMr. and Mrs. David VittorMs. Carol Curtis and

Mr. Edward B. WallaceMr. and Mrs. Fred WaltersMr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Weir

Dr. and Mrs. Robert K. WeirMr. and Mrs. Philip M. WertzProfessor Caroline H. WilkinsMr. and Mrs. Richard D. WoodsMr. Robert S. Thompson and

Dr. Mary M. WurtzMr. and Mrs. Robert ZeldinMr. and Mrs. Karl Zobrist

$100 to $249Dr. Melvin AbendMr. H. W. AbplanalpMr. and Mrs. Byron T. AdamsMr. and Mrs. Travis M. AdamsMs. Joan AldersMr. and Mrs. Joseph AlgaierMs. Suzanne E. AllenDr. Carol AndersonDr. Linnea M. AndersonMr. and Mrs. Rod AndersonAnonymous DonorsMs. and Mr. Kathryn

AshenbrennerMr. and Mrs. Russell E. Atha, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Richard BanesMrs. June BeaverMr. David Z. BeecherMr. and Mrs. Irvin V. BelzerMr. Jerome BerkoMs. Darcy A. Howe and

Mr. John S. BlackMr. and Mrs. David BlanchardMr. and Mrs. Curtis T. BlissBlue Ridge Bank and Trust Co.Mr. and Mrs. T. M. BogaczMs. Carolyn BondDr. and Mrs. Christopher A. BormanMrs. Lewis J. BrattMr. and Mrs. Arnold H. BrownMr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. BrownMr. and Mrs. Bill M. BurchMs. Donna BurgessMr. and Mrs. Jim CableThe Hon. Victor E. CallahanMr. Louis CapoziMr. John W. ChalfantMr. Wayne ChaneyMr. Ted ChanockDr. and Mrs. Paul J. ChaseMs. Patricia ChasnoffMr. and Mrs. Dennis ChilesMr. Greg Cusack and

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Mr. George S. CornishMr. and Mrs. Frank CorrelMr. and Mrs. Michael E. CostelloMr. and Mrs. Matthew CrimminsMr. and Mrs. Darrell A. CrossMr. and Mrs. Richard DavisMr. and Mrs. Larry DelmontMr. and Mrs. Barry DenslowMr. and Mrs. Merle DeterdingMr. and Mrs. Carl DiCapoMr. Richard H. W. DillardMr. and Mrs. Ronald E. DoeringMr. Michael B. DowneyMr. and Mrs. Robert J. DowningMr. and Mrs. Mo DuFourThe Hon. and Mrs. Michael S.

DukakisMrs. Courtney R. EarnestDr. and Mrs. Paul M. EdwardsMr. and Mrs. George L. EibMr. and Mrs. Thomas ElfterMrs. Olga M. EngelMr. Robert L. EngelMs. Marcia Rodgers and

Mr. Steve EverlyMr. George M. Ewing, Sr.Mr. and Mrs. Robert M.

FarnsworthMr. and Mrs. David E. FergusonFidelity Charitable Gift FundMr. and Mrs. Thomas J. FlemingDr. and Mrs. Barry L.

FlinchbaughMr. and Mrs. Dana ForresterMr. and Mrs. J. Richard FranklinMrs. Helen L. FrenchMr. and Mrs. Maurice FriedmanMr. and Mrs. David GaeblerThe Hon. and Mrs. Jack E. GantMr. and Mrs. Larry GilsonMr. and Mrs. Arthur GinsburgMs. Anne GobiMr. Nathan GoldenCommissioner Ronald GravinoMs. Melissa GreenMr. and Mrs. Richard GreenbergMr. and Mrs. James GreenwoodMr. and Mrs. Gerard J. GrimaldiMr. and Mrs. Ruvane E. GrossmanMr. and Mrs. Jeff B. HanesMr. and Mrs. Larry L. HaynesDr. Mary Ann HeissMrs. Paul H. HensonMs. Mary HerrickMr. and Mrs. Jerry N. HessMrs. Walter HiersteinerMr. and Mrs. Edgar G. Hinde, Jr.Mr. Jerome W. HirschMr. and Mrs. Thomas N. HolmanMs. Mamie HughesMr. Douglass HuntDr. and Mrs. John E. IngramMrs. Ann Jacobson

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ReinhardMr. and Mrs. Blaine E. RiekeMrs. Marilyn P. RinkerMs. Mildred W. Roesler-RyanMr. and Mrs. William M. RothMr. and Mrs. Alfred F. RothschildMr. Ernest RubensteinMr. and Mrs. Douglas R. RushingThe Hon. Howard F. SachsMr. and Mrs. Maxwell H. SalterMr. and Mrs. Michael L. SalterMr. and Mrs. Daniel D. SawyerMr. and Mrs. Theodore

SchechterMr. and Mrs. John SchmiedelerMr. and Mrs. Stephen L. SchnareMr. Jim Schroeder and

The Hon. Patricia S. SchroederMr. and Mrs. Ken SchumacherMr. John A. ScullyMr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. SebbyDr. Arlene E. SegalMrs. Elizabeth SeippelMr. Thomas SellmeyerMr. Christopher SeniorMr. and Mrs. J. Stan SextonMs. Opal L. Winebrenner and

Mr. Michael ShieldsMs. Margaret E. ShouseMrs. Elaine SightMs. Margaret A. SimmonsMr. and Mrs. James R. SlaterDr. Harold I. SmithMr. William G. SmithMr. and Mrs. Brian K. SnyderMr. and Mrs. Floyd R. SowersMr. and Mrs. Peter J. SpecaThe Spectra Energy Fdn.

Matching Gifts ProgramMr. and Mrs. Arthur L. SternMr. William T. Stewart, Jr.Mrs. L. R. StiffelmanMr. and Mrs. Brad StrattonMr. and Mrs. Hugh A. StricklandMr. and Mrs. H. Kenneth

SwearingenMr. Marvin S. SznelerMr. and Mrs. James O. TalbotMr. and Mrs. H. Stephen TalgeDr. and Mrs. Marc K. TaorminaMr. Stephen H. TimmonsToledo Federation of Teachers

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Whitworth, Jr.The Hon. and Mrs. John

WildenthalMr. and Mrs. Don WillcoxonMr. and Mrs. Timothy WilliamsSP5 and Mrs. Aubrey E.

Williamson, Jr.Mr. James G. WoodwardMr. and Mrs. Albert J. Yonke

$99 or lessMr. and Mrs. Donald F. Aaron, Sr.Mrs. Oca Mae AbernathyMr. Everett Och and

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Mr. John E. AdamsMr. and Mrs. John E. AlldredgeMr. Ellis E. AllenMr. and Mrs. William L. AllenMr. William W. AllenMr. and Mrs. Francis AmorosoMr. Donald D. AndersonMs. E. Vernice AndersonMr. and Mrs. Lloyd F. AndersonMs. Lorna AndersonMr. and Mrs. Shawn M.

AndersonMrs. C. J. AndertonMr. and Mrs. Fred G. AndrewsMr. William T. Anton, IIIMr. and Mrs. William L. AtwoodMajor Christopher AustinDr. and Mrs. James D. AustinMr. and Mrs. Bipin N. AvashiaMr. and Mrs. Richard J. AylwardMr. and Mrs. Robert BacicDr. B. Joyce BaileyMr. and Mrs. Barry BaileyMr. and Mrs. William W. BakerMr. and Mrs. David E. BalducchiMr. and Mrs. Richard BaldwinMr. and Mrs. Sigmund BalkaMr. and Mrs. Charles H. BardsleyMr. and Mrs. Lee B. BarewinMr. and Mrs. Thomas BarhorstMr. Robert BarryDr. and Mrs. Harold F. Bass, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. James D. BastinMr. Robert S. BatesMr. and Mrs. Eddie BattsMs. Joan E. Bauer

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BerlacherMr. Charles M. BerlauMr. and Mrs. Bryan B. BerlinMr. and Mrs. Gary R. BertoncinMr. and Mrs. Ralph J. BettlachMr. and Mrs. Roger J. BilenMr. and Mrs. John C. BillsMr. Alan BlackMr. Maynard M. BlackwoodMs. Betty D. BlattMr. and Mrs. Larry N. BlickMs. Wilma BloomMs. Carol R. BlucherMr. David BludworthMr. and Mrs. Curtis L. BockMs. Colleen BoedingMr. Loren BolineMr. Rick BorgesMr. and Mrs. James BorthwickMr. Leslie P. BostonMr. Ralph Thomas BotaMr. and Mrs. Eugene A. BovaMs. Diana K. BoyllsMrs. and Mr. Dan BrantMr. Douglas M. BratteboDr. Walter BraymanMr. and Mrs. Patrick BrazilRev. and Mrs. Robert A. BrennanMr. and Mrs. Charles W. BrewerMr. and Mrs. C. W. BrightMr. Harlan E. BrockmanMrs. Ellen BroderickDr. Mark J. BrodkeyMr. and Mrs. Les BrokkeMr. Arthur W. Brooks, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Philip C. Brooks, Jr.Mr. Rodger L. BroughMrs. Betty M. BrownMr. and Mrs. Bob BrownMr. Dallas E. Brown, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. David BrownMr. and Mrs. Glenn E. BrownMr. and Mrs. James W. Brown, IIIMr. and Mrs. Jerry G. BrownMr. and Mrs. Randy C. BrownMs. and Mr. Tom BrownMr. Theodore Brown, Jr.Judge Wesley E. BrownMr. and Mrs. Robert Bruner, Jr.Mr. Jeffrey BrunsMr. Frank L. BuchanMr. and Mrs. William Burden, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. BurksMr. and Mrs. R. H. BurnupMrs. Beulah J. BurrusMr. and Mrs. Riley L. BurrusDr. and Mrs. V. Frederick Burry, Jr.Dr. and Mrs. Darrel CadyDr. Elwyn L. Cady, Jr.



Mr. Jerry F. CaligiuriMr. and Mrs. James C. CallinanDrs. Greta and Marvin CamelMr. and Mrs. Bruce E. CampbellDr. and Mrs. Robin R. CanterburyMr. Daniel J. CardenMs. Nicki CardwellMr. and Mrs. Hugh CareyMs. Judith Ann CareyMs. Rebecca CarlsonMr. and Mrs. James P. CarolusMr. and Mrs. Peter M. CarrozzoMs. Chelsea CassellMr. and Mrs. Jim W. CassidyMr. Earl K. CavanahMr. and Mrs. Eldred ChildsMr. Leo M. ChopMr. Mark E. ChopMrs. Irene A. ChristiansenMr. and Mrs. Richard Allen

ChristmanMr. and Mrs. Terry L. ChronisterMs. Barbara ChurchmanDr. Anna CiencialaCIGNA Matching Gifts ProgramMr. and Mrs. Foster ClarkMr. and Mrs. Harry Clark, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. John W. ClarkMr. and Mrs. Robert L. ClarkMr. and Mrs. William M. ClarkMr. and Mrs. Milton C. ClarkeMr. and Mrs. Ronald D. ClemonsMs. Mary A. ClosserMs. Jane CoganMr. Jules CohenMr. and Mrs. Leonard CohenMr. and Mrs. Donald J. CohnMs. Bernice I. ColemanMr. David E. ColemanMr. and Mrs. Timothy ColemanMr. William J. CollinsCommerce Bank of St. Joseph,

MissouriMr. and Mrs. Robert L. ConnellyMr. and Mrs. Martin M. CooperMr. and Mrs. Dan C. CottonMr. and Mrs. Hardin C. CoxMr. and Mrs. Ray T. CoxMrs. Eugenia R. CrainMr. and Mrs. Stephen W. CriderMr. and Mrs. Joel CrockettThe Honorable and Mrs. G. L.

CrystalMr. and Mrs. Geral CulpMrs. Regina Smith CulverMr. and Mrs. John T. CurryMr. Art CurtisMrs. Gayla Curtis-WingfieldMr. and Mrs. Jack L. DaddonaMr. Jon DaleMr. and Mrs. William H. DanforthMr. and Mrs. Donald P. DannerMr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. DauerMr. and Mrs. James C. DavidsonMr. and Mrs. Chris L. DavisMajor and Mrs. Douglas J. DavisMr. Kenneth P. DavisMs. Abby DayMr. and Mrs. H. R. Decker

Professor and Mrs. Wayne L.Decker

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. DeesMr. and Mrs. Robert L. DeluceMr. John H. DenglerMr. and Mrs. Nicholas E.

DeNigrisMs. Carolyn M. DetillierMr. Nicholas A. Di BlasioMr. and Mrs. Richard DickMr. and Mrs. Leo D. DickeyMr. John DickhuteMr. and Mrs. David F. DicksonMrs. Martha DillmanMs. Amy DischMr. Terry Gratz and

Ms. Erica A. DobreffMr. and Mrs. Youngsik DokkoMrs. Shirley C. DonaldsonDr. and Mrs. Donald W. DonathMr. and Mrs. Frank W. DonathMr. and Mrs. Peter J. DonnellyMr. and Mrs. Craig DotyMs. Hazel A. DouglasMr. and Mrs. Harold Draper, IIIMrs. Adele S. DresnerDr. and Mrs. George M. DrewMr. Walter V. DuaneMr. Mark Durbin and

Mrs. Ellen DurbinDr. and Mrs. James R. DurigMr. and Mrs. Douglas A. DusingMr. William S. EastbergMr. and Mrs. Lowell H. EasterMr. and Mrs. Bert EdwardsMr. and Mrs. Lyman EdwardsMr. Jason A. EdwardsMr. and Mrs. Seymour

EhrenpreisDr. and Mrs. Gustave EisemannMr. Mark Eisemann and

Ms. Leslie MarkMr. Robert L. Eller and

Ms. Mary VincentMr. Charles S. EllingtonMr. and Mrs. John W. ElliottMr. and Mrs. Burt K. EllisMrs. Penny Mast and

Mr. Harry V. EllisMr. and Mrs. William S. EmburyMr. and Mrs. Robert N. EpstenMr. Hotavio EscamillaMr. Gregory E. Eufinger, Jr.Ms. Henrietta FairMr. and Mrs. Richard E. FarmerMr. and Mrs. John FatzMrs. Helen A. FeiereisenMr. Michael D. FeiereisenMr. and Mrs. Burton M.

FendelmanMr. and Mrs. B. Van FergusonMr. and Mrs. John T. FerrellMr. Michael P. FerrellDr. Robert H. FerrellMr. and Mrs. Ralph FerroMrs. Betty T. FinkelsteinMs. Marjorie FinleyMrs. Mary Faye FischerMr. Roger Fisher

Ms. Lora Hackman FitzgeraldMr. and Mrs. Michael J.

FleischhauerMr. and Mrs. Phillip FlemingMrs. Jacqueline S. FleschmanMs. Margaret L. FleschmanMr. and Mrs. Dennis FoxMr. and Mrs. Tim FrameMr. and Mrs. Roger J. FrancisMs. Randi FrankMr. and Mrs. Roger FranklinThe Hon. and Mrs. Thomas J.

FrawleyProfessor and Mrs. Richard M.

FriedMr. and Mrs. Harvey J. FriedDr. and Mrs. Stephen L.

FriedlandMiss Luella E. FriendMs. Vesta FrizzellMrs. Carole FulkDr. Connel R. FullenkampMr. and Mrs. Mark FullerMrs. Henrietta M. FullertonMr. and Mrs. Rick E. FullertonMs. Norene GainesDr. and Mrs. Jeffrey GallDr. Robert E. GamerDr. and Mrs. Lawrence E.

GelfandMr. and Mrs. Michael GerchickMr. and Mrs. Dennis J. GetmanMr. and Mrs. Douglas N.

GhertnerMr. and Mrs. Donald G. GibbsMr. and Mrs. Fred R. Gibson, Jr.Ms. Ruth K. GieschenMr. and Mrs. John R. GilbertsonMr. and Mrs. Patrick J. GilmartinDr. and Mrs. Robert B. GlennMr. Steven D. GoersMr. and Mrs. Arthur GoldsteinMr. Allan L. GoodeMr. and Mrs. Arthur R. GoodellProfessor Craufurd D. GoodwinMr. and Mrs. Dwayne M.

GoodwinMr. Steve GordinMs. Patricia L. GoreMr. and Mrs. William GossmanMr. and Mrs. Sheldon GottliebDr. and Mrs. Henry F. GraffDr. and Mrs. Keith G. GrafingMr. and Mrs. Loeb H. GranoffMr. Paul R. GrassSgt. John GrayMr. and Mrs. Allen H. GreenMr. and Mrs. Rudy GreenMs. Louise GreenfieldMr. Seymour D. GreenstoneMr. Norman GreerMr. and Mrs. C. Philip GriffinMr. Herb GrossMrs. Marilyn J. GuetlichMr. and Mrs. Keith GustinDr. and Mrs. Michael D. HagenMs. Norma R. HagertyMr. Wayne A. HaglundMr. Paul Hahn

Dr. and Mrs. James M. HaleMr. Richard E. HaleMr. C. Francis HalesDr. and Mrs. Alonzo L. HambyMs. Gretchen W. HamiltonMr. and Mrs. Major D. HammettMr. and Mrs. David HammondMr. and Mrs. Michael L. HanoverMr. and Mrs. George Hanson, Jr.Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. HarbertMs. Barbara A. HareMr. and Mrs. Kevin L. HargettMr. and Mrs. James C. HarlanMr. Robert C. HarpoolDr. Connie K. HarrisMr. and Mrs. Gary W. HarrisMr. and Mrs. Wendell R.

HathhornMrs. Judith A. HauckDr. William E. HauserMr. and Mrs. Stephen R. HawksMr. and Mrs. E. M. HayMr. and Mrs. John K. HaydenMr. and Mrs. Donald D. HeacockDrs. James and Maridella

HeimanMr. and Mrs. Louis HeringMr. and Mrs. Gene HermanMr. and Mrs. Robert S. HermanMr. and Mrs. Richard S. HerndonMr. and Mrs. Roger W. HersheyMr. Albert A. Owen and

Ms. Juarenne HesterMr. and Mrs. Robert R. HetrickMr. and Mrs. Tom HeuertzMr. and Mrs. Ollie HibbelerMr. Dennis Ragen and

Ms. Christine HickmanMrs. Doris M. HicksonMr. and Mrs. Edward L.

HigginbothamMs. Joan Hilger-MullenMrs. James T. Hill, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. John L. HillMrs. Helen L. HilliardHillyard, Inc.Mr. Les HinmonMr. and Mrs. Richard HintzMr. Gordon S. HodgkinsMrs. Colene S. HoffmanMr. and Mrs. Barry HofstetterMr. and Mrs. Francis J. HogartyMr. Richard G. HollowMs. Phyllis Holter DunnMr. and Mrs. Harry R. HolzleMr. James R. HomanDr. and Mrs. Michael P.

HomenickMs. Loraine HoneywellMr. and Mrs. Clifford R. Hope, Jr.Ms. Gerlinde M. HopkinsMs. Cindy HornMrs. Millie HornMrs. Jane A. HowardMr. and Mrs. John W. HowardMrs. Martha HowardMr. and Mrs. Richard P. HowardMr. and Mrs. John HowlandMr. and Mrs. Jack Hubby

Mr. and Mrs. Gary HughesMr. and Mrs. William J.

HuhmannMr. J. Wells HullMr. and Mrs. Arlan L. IrwinProfessor and Mrs. Dan N.

JacobsMr. and Mrs. Vernie E. JacobsMr. and Mrs. Herbert R.

JacobsonMr. and Mrs. Lloyd W. JaffeMr. and Mrs. James R. Jahnz, Jr.Dr. and Mrs. William J. JamesMr. and Mrs. Mike JancekMs. Adell J. JanzenMr. and Mrs. Carlton JarvisMr. Jay R. Jennings, IIMr. and Mrs. Russell J. JohnsMrs. Catherine D. JohnsonMs. Wendy Frieman and

Dr. David E. JohnsonMr. and Mrs. John JohnstonMr. David M. JonesMr. John P. JonesMs. Paula L. JonesMr. R. Michael JonesMr. and Mrs. Robert H. JonesMr. Tommy C. JonesMr. Thomas L. JumpsMr. Edward JunkMr. and Mrs. Philip KaluzaMr. and Mrs. Edward KanderMr. and Mrs. Ray KandtMr. Theodore E. KapalaMr. and Mrs. Bernard L. KapellMr. and Mrs. Stuart KaplanMr. and Mrs. Sumner Z. KaplanMr. and Mrs. Sidney M. KarshMr. and Mrs. Harold KaseffMr. and Mrs. Stanley KatzMr. Homer KayMr. and Mrs. Roy L. KeelandMs. Joyce L. KeelerMr. and Mrs. James E. KellyMr. and Mrs. Ronald J. KellyMr. and Mrs. Michael J. KennedyMr. John L. KerrMr. and Mrs. Raymond J. KielyMr. and Mrs. Kurt L. KillenMs. Kyunghyang Park and

Mr. Byong Moon KimMr. Dale N. KindredMs. Shelley KingMr. and Mrs. D. Jack KleinMr. and Mrs. Michael KleinmanMr. and Mrs. William KlierMr. Lloyd R. KnoxMr. John Gilluly and

Mrs. Grace KohanMr. and Mrs. L. D. KoirtyohannMr. and Mrs. Thomas H. KokjerMr. and Mrs. Phillip KonortMrs. Margaret KoontzMr. Charles H. KopkeMs. Irene KovacMr. and Mrs. Ernie KrahenbuhlMr. and Mrs. Theodore KranitzMr. and Mrs. Arnold KratchmanMr. Eric M. Kratty


Ms. Anna B. KurzweilMr. and Mrs. Ben KutlerMs. Barbara M. KuzdzolProfessor Virginia J. LaasMr. and Mrs. Patrick LaceyMr. and Mrs. Charles Laitner, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Sanders R.

Lambert, Jr.Mrs. Leona G. Lambert-SuchetMs. Deborah LaneMr. and Mrs. Thomas A. LaneMr. and Mrs. Walter M. LangfordMr. and Mrs. Asher C.

Langworthy, Jr.Mr. Leo R. LapierreMr. and Mrs. A. K. LarsonJames E. Larson, Ph.D.Ms. Linda Adams and

Mr. Ken LarsonMr. and Mrs. Robert LaskeyMr. and Mrs. Wayne LatareMs. Pamela M. LautschMr. and Mrs. Carl W. LeamanMr. and Mrs. Ronald J. LebanDr. and Mrs. Bryan F. LeBeauMr. and Mrs. Philip G. LeDucMr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. LeeMr. and Mrs. Myung Woong LeeMr. Steven G. LeeMr. Jean LePageMr. Meyer LernerDr. and Mrs. Gregory D. LessigMr. and Mrs. James D. LewisMr. John LewisMr. Harry LindbackBrigadier General Beverly S.

LindseyDr. Malcolm E. Linville, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Eugene C. LipskyMr. and Mrs. Gerald J. LiskaMr. and Mrs. David D. LodwickMr. and Mrs. Albert LoncaricMrs. Betty M. LongMr. and Mrs. Harold LorimerMr. and Mrs. William R. LorimerMr. and Mrs. Roy D. LovenMr. and Mrs. John D. LowreyMr. and Mrs. H. H. LuetjenMr. and Mrs. Raymond B.

Luhnow, Jr.Mrs. Lily Lumpp

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McFarlaneMr. and Mrs. Gerald McKiernanMs. Dorothy C. McKinleyMs. Cynthia McNabbMiss Connie C. McQuainMr. and Mrs. Edward J.

McShane, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Kevin R. MeadeMs. Lucinda S. Holmes and

Mr. Clifford MeekMr. and Mrs. William J. MemmerMr. and Mrs. Jay MenitoveDr. George L. MeshkeMr. Harold MettsMrs. Patricia J. MichaelsonMs. Nancy MilgramMrs. R. H. Miller

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Mr. Stephen L. MurphyMs. Elizabeth A. MyersColonel Charles NahlikMrs. Virginia F. NeffMr. and Mrs. Clifford NellesRobert P. Newman, Ph.D.Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. NickleMr. Paul NiewrzelMr. and Mrs. Robert NoeMr. and Mrs. James C. NoonanMs. Suzanne K. NootzMs. Sarah Henderson and

Mr. Aaron M. NorthDr. Henrietta Spencer and

Mr. Michael NortonNSDARMr. James I. NutterMr. and Mrs. Ole NygrenMr. and Mrs. Thomas O’ConnorMr. and Mrs. Brian O’DonnellMr. and Mrs. David O’HaganMr. and Mrs. Thurman OliverMr. Duane R. OlsenMr. Ted OlsonMrs. James C. OlsonMs. Susanna OrganicMr. and Mrs. Michael OrmsbyMr. and Mrs. Claude T. OwenP. E. O. Sisterhood

Mr. Uldis J. PaldeMrs. Matti PalluconiMr. Kent I. PalmerMs. Dorothy C. ParkerMr. and Mrs. Emory C. ParksMr. and Mrs. Richard A. ParrishMr. and Mrs. F. Dale ParsonMr. and Mrs. Ronald PashenMr. and Mrs. Norman J. PatinkinMs. Heather N. PaxtonMs. Linda M. PayneMr. and Mrs. H. Scott PeckMr. and Mrs. Chester J. PelkaCpt. Robert C. Peniston, USN (Ret.)Dr. Charles F. PennacchioMr. and Mrs. Robert PerryDr. Jody L. PetersonMr. George A. PickettMr. and Mrs. Earl C. PierceMr. and Mrs. Ossean E. PiersonMs. Donna PittmanMr. and Mrs. Nick L. PizzichinoMr. and Mrs. Donald L. PloegerMs. Mary Elizabeth T. PlylerDr. and Mrs. Monte M. PoenDr. and Mrs. Jim C. PogueMrs. Dixie PollardMr. and Mrs. Steven PotterMr. and Mrs. Edward C. Price, IIMr. and Mrs. Mark F. ProsserCDR and Mrs. Gerald P. Pulley,

(Ret.)Mr. and Mrs. Jack B. PuttMr. and Mrs. David RaffelMr. Eugene J. RaffertyMr. and Mrs. E. G. RaneyMr. John A. RauschkolbMr. and Mrs. B. John Readey, IIIMiss Mary Sue ReaganMr. and Mrs. Harry M. ReasonerThe Hon. and Mrs. Don ReimalMr. Loren D. ReuterDr. and Mrs. Paul RevareMr. James P. ReynoldsMr. Kyle S. ReynoldsMr. and Mrs. Jack RichardsonCol. and Mrs. John Riffle,

USAF (Ret.)Rear Admiral and Mrs. J.T. RikerMr. and Mrs. R. Dean RinehartDr. C. Ritchie

Ms. Karen M. RobertsMr. Steven L. RobertsDr. and Mrs. David Brian

RobertsonMr. and Mrs. Jeffery RobichaudMiss Patricia L. RobinsMr. Beauford W. RobinsonMr. and Mrs. James M. RobinsonDr. Marvin RogolskyMr. and Mrs. Harold RolfeMs. Sherrill L. RosenDr. and Mrs. Gene RossMr. and Mrs. Richard H.

RostenbergMr. and Mrs. Howard R. RothwellMr. and Mrs. Sidney RubinMr. David A. RubioMs. Marilyn RueMrs. Violet E. RutledgeMr. Rami SaffariniMs. Suzanne F. SailorsSara L. Sale, Ph.D.Mr. Robert T. SalsmanThe Hon. and Mrs. Stanley J.

SalvaMr. and Mrs. Sandy SalzMr. Richard E. SandeenMr. Marvin SandsMr. and Mrs. David M. SantoliCpt. and Mrs. Thomas SaulMr. Keith L. SavastanoMr. John E. SawyerMrs. Esther ScarpelloMs. Marilyn SchadeDr. and Mrs. Michael E. ScheibachMr. and Mrs. Rick SchlesingerMs. Dorothy L. SchmidtMs. Jane B. SchmidtMr. and Mrs. Patrick

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Mr. Gordon ScholesDr. Kenneth Schowengerdt and

Dr. Joyce KoenigMr. Jim SchraederRosemary G. Schrepfer, M.D.Dr. William C. SchumannMr. Richard SchuppMr. and Mrs. John Gregg Scircle, IIIMr. and Mrs. Rex W. Scouten


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Mr. Richard SeaboltMr. and Mrs. Leroy SeatMr. William R. Sierks and

Ms. Mamie SegallMrs. Linda SehrtMs. Mary Ann Adams and

Mr. Richard SengpiehlMr. and Mrs. Stanford L.

SeveranceMr. and Mrs. Howard ShafferMrs. Anne H. ShalinskyMr. and Mrs. Stan ShankDr. and Mrs. Nathan G. ShechterMr. and Mrs. William SherrillMr. and Mrs. Phillip A. SherwoodMr. David A. ShippMs. Hazel H. ShippeeMr. Jim ShippeeLt. Col. and Mrs. Robert J.

Shippee, Sr.Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. ShroutMrs. Betty ShroutMrs. Leona ShulkindMr. Timothy ShullSiegal Enterprises, Inc.Ms. Marilyn SiegelMr. and Mrs. Sylvan SieglerMr. Robert P. SigmanMr. and Mrs. Robert E. SimonMr. and Mrs. Jake M. SimonitschThe Hon. and Mrs. Alan K.

SimpsonThe Hon. and Mrs. Thomas E.

Sims, Sr.Dr. and Mrs. W. Christian

SizemoreDr. and Mrs. Max J. SkidmoreMr. and Mrs. Robert M. SlaterMr. and Mrs. Robert M. SlegmanMr. Roger SlusherMr. and Mrs. Andrew J. SmithMr. and Mrs. J. Randolph SmithMr. and Mrs. Christopher SmithMrs. Darline C. SmithMr. Donald L. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. K. Michael SmithMr. and Mrs. Lawrence F. SmithThe Hon. and Mrs. Philip SmithDr. and Mrs. David H. SolomonDr. and Mrs. Warren H. SolomonMs. Genevieve A. SoulisDr. and Mrs. Wesley B. SpillmanMs. Kimberly J. SpitzigMr. and Mrs. Louis J. SpryMr. and Mrs. Otto M. SpurnyMr. and Mrs. Ken SrozinskiMr. and Mrs. Lee E. StanfordMrs. Gloria Stansbarger-ShyMr. James A. StarkeMr. Raymond StarzmannDr. and Mrs. James H. SteeleDub and Joy SteincrossThe Hon. and Mrs. Robert

SteinkampMr. and Mrs. Boris StephenMr. John A. SternMr. and Mrs. Gregory E. StevensMr. and Mrs. R. James Stilley, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Donivan StogsdillMr. and Mrs. Ronald StokesMr. and Mrs. Jerry StoliarDr. and Mrs. Daniel C. StollMs. Mary L. StoneDr. and Ms. John H. StrangeMr. and Mrs. Steven J. StreenMr. and Mrs. John R. StreuMr. Robert E. L. Strider, IIMr. and Mrs. Stephen L. StringerMr. and Mrs. Shirley E. StrnadMr. Paul K. Stuewe and

Ms. Beth WassonMr. and Mrs. John StutzerDean and Mrs. Al SullivanMs. Patricia Petre SurberMr. and Mrs. Delmar SuttonMr. David SuvakMr. and Mrs. Leo J. SweeneyMr. and Mrs. Christopher P.

SweenyMr. and Mrs. David R. Sylvan

Dave and Barbara Sylvan Fdn.Dr. Harold J. SylwesterMr. Nicholas SyrisMr. Edward R. SzynalDr. and Mrs. Duane A.

TananbaumMrs. Theodore TannenwaldDr. and Mrs. J. E. TannerMrs. Betty F. TatumMr. and Mrs. Lyle A. TaylorMr. and Mrs. Jay TeagleMs. Sherry S. TempletonMr. and Mrs. James H. ThomasMr. and Mrs. Dale A. ThompsonMr. and Mrs. James A. ThorntonMr. and Mrs. James P. TierneyMs. Karen ToddMr. Paul R. TollandMr. Andy TomaMr. Ronald J. TomczykowskiMr. and Mrs. Noel TorpeyMs. Doris TousleyMrs. Earlene E. TownsendMr. James F. TownsendMs. Ruth R. TraurigMs. Linda S. TroutMs. Kathy TruderMs. Peggy TrudersRepresentative Christel H.

TrugliaMr. and Mrs. William M. TuckerMr. and Mrs. Thomas M. TullMr. Bonnie B. TurnerMr. and Mrs. Donald W.

TurrentineMr. and Mrs. Lee UldbjergLTC and Mrs. Steve UpdikeMr. Daniel E. UscianMs. Sue ValentineDr. and Mrs. Arthur VeisMs. Ann VeithMr. and Mrs. Edward C. VestMr. and Mrs. Randall L. VestMr. and Mrs. Lawrence VillalvaMr. and Mrs. James M. Voss

Mr. and Mrs. Paul WacknovMr. and Mrs. John S. WalkerCapt. and Mrs. Homer A. WalkupMrs. Marilyn F. WalzMs. Dolores WarrenMr. and Ms. Eric L. WatkinsMr. Jeffrey R. WayneDr. and Mrs. Paul L. Webb, IIDr. and Mrs. Barton WechslerMrs. JoAnn G. WeinerMr. and Mrs. Wiley WelbornMr. and Mrs. Karl W. WelchMr. and Mrs. Thomas W. WelchDr. and Mrs. William L. WellsMs. Judith L. WelpmanMs. Laura Koontz and

Mr. Jeff WestMr. and Mrs. Edward WhitcombMrs. Helen E. WhiteMrs. Lana WhiteMrs. Jean L. WhitenerDr. and Mrs. Douglas M. WhitleyMs. Margaret Jo Smith and

Mr. Gary WhitmerMr. and Ms. Jim WhittenThe Hon. and Mrs. Jim WhortonMr. and Mrs. Blair WildermuthMr. Frank P. Wilfley, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Clyde A. WilliamsMs. Margie WillisDr. Martin WillmanMr. and Mrs. David C. WilsonMr. Paul D. WilsonDr. and Mrs. Htain WinMr. and Mrs. John H. WindsorDr. Betty H. Winfield and

Dr. Barry HymanMr. and Mrs. James W. WinfreyCol. and Dr. Arthur C. WinnMr. Anthony S. Wintczak, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Robert WinterMr. and Mrs. Sheldon WishnaMs. Deanna WishonMr. Oliver J. WisnerMr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Wolf

Mr. John L. WolfeMr. Frank Woodside and

Dr. Sandra L. WoodsideMr. William H. WoodsonMr. and Mrs. Jonah WrightMr. Joseph D. WrinkleMr. and Mrs. Adrian WyattMs. H. Irene WyattMr. and Mrs. John M. Wylie, IIDr. Kathleen XidisDr. Lawrence A. YatesMs. Patricia YeatsMr. and Mrs. Dennis J. YoungMr. and Mrs. Harry D. YoungMr. and Mrs. John E. YoungMr. and Mrs. Ronald D. YoungsMr. and Mrs. Donald A. ZalimeniMs. Kristen ZaneMs. Lisa A. Pace and

Dr. Robert L. ZangrandoMr. and Mrs. Stanford A. ZeldinMr. and Mrs. Miles J. ZellerMr. and Mrs. Nicholas J.

ZennarioMs. Elaine O. ZimmermanMr. and Mrs. George H.

ZimmermanMs. Kimby ZookMr. and Mrs. John Zuccotti

Gifts In KindThe Capital GrilleThe ExaminerMrs. Helen Ferris

Hallmark Cards, Inc/GuyGiunta and Capris Stratton

Harvest Graphics/Woody Johnston

Helix ArchitectureKCUR 89.3 FMLamar Advertising Company

Leader Chauffeur ServicesMarriott-Muehlebach HotelMathews Communication

The Party Patch/Michele and Stan Crumbaugh

Kansas City MarriottYRC Worldwide Inc.

Tribute and Memorial GiftsGifts in honor of

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

William “Bill” ThorpeMs. Mary Elizabeth T. Plyler

Gifts in memory of

Dorothy and Floyd BallMr. and Mrs. Louis LaMarra

Cora and John L. BallMr. and Mrs. Louis LaMarra

Richard C. CrumptonMr. and Mrs. James P. CarolusMr. and Mrs. Milton C. ClarkeMs. Mary A. ClosserCommerce Bank of St.

Joseph, Missouri

Mrs. Penny Mast and Mr. Harry V. Ellis

Mr. and Mrs. Tim FrameMr. Herb GrossHillyard, Inc.Mr. David M. JonesMr. and Mrs. Stuart KaplanMr. and Mrs. James E. LyonsMr. Ken MarkerMr. and Mrs. Dennis V.

MitchellMr. and Mrs. Robert NoeMs. Suzanne K. Nootz

Ms. Dorothy C. ParkerMr. and Mrs. Richard H.

RaneyMr. and Mrs. Tom SchniedersMs. Judy Strong and

Mr. Gordon ScholesMs. Margaret E. ShouseMs. Kathy TruderMs. Peggy TrudersMr. and Mrs. John E. WallerMr. and Mrs. Cooper WeeksMs. Margaret Jo Smith and

Mr. Gary Whitmer

Sir Arthur GilbertMs. Elaine P. Meitus

John Franklyn and Lola HarrymanMrs. Betty J. Dawson

Colvin “Pete” PetersonMs. Nancy BerkeMr. and Mrs. James Brown, IIIP. E. O. Sisterhood

† deceased

“I have tried my best to give the nationeverything I had in me.”

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1 Wedding photograph of Harry Truman’s parents, 1881 (62-96)

2 Truman with cousins and classmate, c. 1905 (72-3559)

3 Harry Truman, haberdasher, c. 1920 (82-153)

4 Time for family, 1928 (82-318)

5 Margaret’s dad wins, 1944 (58-606)

6 Winter in Washington, 1945 (59-1546)

7 Harpo Marx with President Truman, 1950 (77-1400)

8 Truman with a Missouri mule, 1955 (58-643)

9 Truman as guest conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic,1958 (59-659-2)

10 On the front lawn of the White House, 1946 (59-1560)

11 Vice President Truman gavels the Senate into session for thefirst time, 1945 (68-1441)

12 Mary Jane Truman, sister, c. 1890 (72-3508)

13 Noland School, c. 1909 (61-286)

14 Columbian School, c. 1905 (62-185)

15 Independence, 1899 (59-951-2)

16 Independence High School library, c. 1904 (81-76-07)

17 Fishing with Bess Wallace and others, c. 1913 (84-80)

18 Harry Truman, 1897 (79-26)

19 Harry Truman’s first studio photograph, 1884 (72-3413)

20 Plowing a straight furrow, c. 1910 (64-100)

21 Motoring in the Stafford, c. 1915 (84-37)

22 A memorable birthday, 1945 (97-1952)

23 Campaign worker during Truman’s successful run for the U.S.Senate, 1934 (82-61-6)

24 The President and General MacArthur, Wake Island, 1950 (77-1416)

25 Truman at the family farm in Grandview, 1953 (66-3772)

26 Truman’s I.D. card, American Expeditionary Forces, 1918 (83-128)

27 Officers of the 129th Field Artillery, France, 1919 (58-359)

28 A simple wedding, 1919 (73-1668)

29 The haberdashery owned by Truman and Eddie Jacobson from1912-1922 (82-64)

30 Blessed with a daughter, 1924 (82-315-06)

31 Judge Truman with fellow judges and clerks, c. 1927 (58-677)

32 On the stump, Webb City, Missouri, 1934 (82-61-33)

33 First Grade Class (Truman is first child on left of bottom row),1892 (62-768)

34 Brothers Harry and Vivian, 1888 (72-3421)

35 Family at the Grandview farm, 1905 (77-3970)

36 Investing in oil, c. 1916 (82-58-79)

37 Fact-finding Senators, 1939 (59-873)

38 The Big Three at Potsdam, 1945 (63-1457-29)

39 Truman takes the oath of office following the sudden death ofFDR, 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 an-nounces 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)

49 Truman and the Truman Library, 1964 (66-9983)

50 Thomas Hart Benton sketches the former president, c. 1971 (83-51-01)

51 Senator Harry Truman meets with Democratic leaders, 1936 (58-195)

52 With Boss Tom Pendergast before the fall, 1936 (98-39)

53 At the convention, 1936 (58-705)

54 With FDR in Des Moines, 1936 (71-2416)

55 Three for the ferry, c. 1939 (86-76)

56 Inspection tour of Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, 1941 (58-370-01)

57 Harry Truman at 16, 1900 (72-3521)

58 Mother proud of her son, 1944 (59-7)

59 Warm greeting in Topeka, 1948 (2004-235)

60 Upset of the Century, 1948 (58-358)

61 Private Truman, Missouri National Guard, 1912 (77-3962)

62 Bess on the payroll, 1942 (60-229-03)

63 Fact finding at Ford’s Willow Run bomber plant in Michigan,1942 (2008-168)

64 Senator Truman and Bess making breakfast in their Washingtonapartment, 1944 (77-69)

65 A new office for a new job, 1945 (68-1711)

All 125 photographs from the special exhibition Truman125: A Life in Photographs are pictured on the pages of this commemorativeannual report. Below, each image is identified by its exhibit caption and archives reference number. For a more complete description,including photographers and copyright information, please visit the online photo database at TrumanLibrary.org.

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66 Truman with grandchildren in Key West, Florida, 1968 (73-1484)

67 Harry and Bess with Margaret and Clifton, 1959 (60-307-01)

68 Harry and Bess with Clifton and William Daniel, 1960 (61-24)

69 Senator in action, c. 1940 (70-5378)

70 Quiet time on the Truman Balcony, 1952 (83-120-01)

71 Following a $5.6 million renovation of The White House, the Tru-mans move back into the Executive Mansion, 1952 (71-716)

72 Truman Library under construction, 1957 (70-2437)

73 JFK, LBJ, Eisenhower and Truman attending the funeral of SamRayburn, 1961 (64-1816)

74 The soon-to-be Vice President, 1945 (66-1635)

75 Homecoming welcome, 1945 (59-1018)

76 Summer respite back home, 1945 (89-2-06)

77 Truman in fez presented to him by Imperial Shrine PotentateWilliam Woodfield, 1945 (66-3253)

78 Harry S (for Santa) Truman, 1945 (59-1558)

79 Off for a swim in Key West, Florida, 1946 (66-1379)

80 Cinematographer-in-Chief, 1947 (64-253)

81 Senator Harry S. Truman, 1945 (58-591)

82 The Truman Committee, 1942 (66-2143)

83 Running mates meet, 1944 (69-1197)

84 Senior Class, Independence High School (Truman is in back,fourth from left), 1901 (71-2401)

85 Back from the war with friends, 1919 (62-74-02)

86 The burden of paper, c. 1942 (60-229-07)

87 Soviet and American delegations at Potsdam, 1945 (58-574)

88 Truman campaigning with George McGovern, 1956 (2008-169)

89 Truman with students at his home, 1970 (70-6130)

90 Housewives for Truman, 1948 (2005-109)

91 The burden of office, 1950 (65-2527)

92 An outing with friends, c. 1913 (82-58-14)

93 Truman and the Masons, 1917 (59-135)

94 129th Field Artillery regimental canteen at Camp Doniphan,Oklahoma, 1917 (58-366)

95 Triangle Club outing, 1921 (62-145)

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)

122 Back in the Oval Office, 1961 (76-498)

123 Visit of Princess Elizabeth, 1951 (2005-5)

124 Arrival in Rio for state visit to Brazil, 1947 (58-656)

125 Congratulating the Vice Presidential nominee, 1944 (58-671)

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