President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960. Longhand Notes Files, 1945 - 1953

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President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960. Longhand Notes Files, 1945 - 1953

1930-1955

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The Longhand Notes Files contain handwritten notes by Harry S. Truman pertaining to various topics. Many of the notes are diary-like entries describing the events of the President's day; others contain Truman's candid observations on history, politics, and human nature. Included in this series are the "Pickwick Papers," autobiographical notes written by Truman during the early 1930s on the stationery of the Pickwick Hotel in Kansas City. At that time, Truman was Presiding Judge of the Jackson County Court. Other notes date from after the end of the Truman administration in 1953. The subjects discussed in Truman's longhand notes include Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Soviet Union, World War II, Herbert Hoover, the Potsdam Conference, the 1948 and 1952 elections, Louis Johnson, the Wake Island Conference with General Macarthur, Paul Hume, Tom Pendergast, the Korean War, the 35th Division, Adlai Stevenson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Pete the Squirrel, Joseph Stalin, World War I, term limits, Cabinet members, Point Four, and public service. The notes date from 1930 to 1955, but many of them are undated. The Longhand Notes Files are comprised of four subseries, consisting of Truman's pre-Presidential, Presidential, post-Presidential, and undated notes.

1 linear foot, 4 linear inches

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