Name Files, 1945 - 1953

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Name Files, 1945 - 1953

1945 - 1953

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/602205

The Chronological Name Files consist of correspondence, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, and press releases. This series includes copies of President Harry S. Truman's letters to such prominent individuals as Dean Acheson, Tallulah Bankhead, Alben Barkley, Omar Bradley, Winston Churchill, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall, Groucho Marx, J. Robert Oppenheimer, James Pendergast, Nelson Rockefeller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, Adlai Stevenson, Strom Thurmond, and Chaim Weizmann.

8 linear feet, 5 linear inches

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Harry S. Truman Library

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Harry S. Truman Library

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