PRESIDENT HARRY S TRUMAN - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 06/29/1964 - HFSID 13250

HARRY S TRUMAN
Typed letter signed by the ex-President sending his thanks for the book The Atlantean Poetry Anthology
Typed Letter signed: "Harry Truman", 1p, 7¼x6¾. Independence, Missouri, 1964 June 29. On personal letterhead to Reverend Van R. Gibson, East Norwalk, Connecticut. In full: "Thank you very much for the book which you sent me entitled 'The Atlantean Poetry Anthology'. It was kind and thoughtful of you to remember me with it and I look forward to reading it at the first opportunity Sincerely yours". Harry S. Truman, a WWI veteran, one-time haberdasher, former U.S. Senator from Missouri (1935-1945), had been elected Vice President for the fourth term of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, and he assumed the presidency in April 1945, following the sudden death of FDR. During his first term, Truman ordered the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 1945), forcing a Japanese surrender and the end of WWII (1939-1945), announced his Fair Deal domestic program (September 1945) and issued the Truman Doctrine (March 1947), which guaranteed aid to any nation resisting Communist aggression. Following his stunning 1948 defeat of Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey, Truman oversaw the foundation of NATO (April 1949) and sent troops to South Korea to repel the North Korean invasion (June 1950). After leaving the White House, Truman returned to Missouri, where he wrote his memoirs and was actively involved in the creation of the Truman Library. Light mailing folds, not at signature. Mounting remnant on verso (light show through). Bottom portion of letter cut off.