PRESIDENT HARRY S TRUMAN - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 11/20/1964 - HFSID 154846

HARRY S TRUMAN
Harry S. Truman sends a typed letter of thanks for letting him know about a mutual friend who is very ill in the hospital and to ask him to forward a letter.
Typed Letter Signed: "Harry Truman", 1p, 7¼x10½. Independence, Missouri, 1964 November 20. To Mr. T. A. Boschoff, Williamsburg, Kansas. In full: "I appreciated very much yours of the 19th, informing me that our friend, T. J. Cummings, Jr., Postmaster of Ottawa, Kansas, is in grave condition in St. Mary's Hospital. I was certainly sorry to hear it. I am enclosing [not present] you a letter which I would like for you to deliver to him. Sincerely yours," Harry 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. Fold creases not near signature. Fine condition.