PRESIDENT HARRY S TRUMAN - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 07/05/1962 - HFSID 253982

HARRY S TRUMAN
Harry Truman sends a typed letter answering a previous letter and to catch up on the news.
Typed Letter Signed: "Harry Truman", 1p, 7¼x10½. Independence, Missouri 1962 July 5. To Honorable Edward D. McKim, Sioux Narrows, Ontario, Canada. In full: "I have been long time answering your letter of the 6th of June, in which you sent me Larry's address, and I am always glad to hear from you. I know you must be well settled by this time and hope everything is going well with you. I trust the lake hasn't risen enough to spoil your dock, although you told me it is normal now. You are in the same fix that I am - always looking for a yard man and a cook. It is as hard as anything could possibly be to get good ones. You seem to be pretty cool up there. Wish it were that way here. Sincerely yours," In a handwritten postscript, the former President adds: "Sent Larry a thank you note for the films. My best to Mary & all the family." Fold creases through signature. Fine condition. With typed envelope bearing Truman's printed frank. Lightly soiled. Fine condition. EDWARD D. McKIM was in TRUMAN's WWI field artillery battery and worked in all Truman's campaigns from his 1922 race for County Judge to his 1948 presidential campaign. On the day Roosevelt died, McKim had everything in readiness at his suite at the Hotel Statler, waiting for the Vice President to show up for a planned poker session. The new President, of course, had to call it off when the news of Roosevelt's death arrived. McKim was one of the new President's first appointments, but he could not survive the pressure at the White House. He stayed only a few months as Truman's Chief Administrative Assistant and then went to work for the Federal Loan Administration. Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), the nation's 33rd President (1945-1953), had previously served as U.S. Senator from Missouri, his home state, from 1935-1945. Truman had distinguished himself during his second term with his chairmanship of a committee investigating war profiteering. At the Democratic National Convention in 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt selected Truman as his running mate in his successful bid for a fourth term. Truman, who succeeded to the Presidency upon FDR's death in April 1945, brought about a swift end to WWII, increased the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour and fought the Cold War with his Truman Doctrine (1947), a policy to aid Greece and Turkey in resisting Communist aggression. In his second term, Truman extended Social Security benefits to include approximately 10 million additional people and ordered U.S. forces into action when North Korean troops invaded American-supported South Korea (1950). Two items.