PRESIDENT HARRY S TRUMAN - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 11/29/1954 - HFSID 4620
Price: $475.00
HARRY S TRUMAN
President Truman signs a typed thank you letter to someone at
Blackburn College
Typed Letter signed: "Harry Truman", 1 page, 7¼x10¼. Kansas
City, Missouri, 1954 November 29. On personal letterhead to John Forbes,
Blackburn College, Carlinville, Illinois. In full: "Thank you very
much for your lovely note of the twenty-third. Mrs. Truman and I certainly did
appreciate it most highly. Sincerely". Mailing folds, not at signature.
Lightly soiled. Otherwise, fine condition. Accompanied by typed mailing
envelope (7½x3¾) to same addressee. Soiled. Harry S Truman (1884-1972) had been
Vice President for only 82 days when he became the 33rd President of
the U.S. (1945-1953) upon Franklin D. Roosevelt's death on April 12, 1945.
Faced with the ordeal of ending WWII, Truman oversaw the surrender of Germany
(May 7) and ordered the atomic bombings on Hiroshima (August 6) and
Nagasaki (August 9). He fought the Cold War with the Truman Doctrine, a
policy granting Greece and Turkey $400 million in economic and military aid to
help them fight Communist aggression. By the end of 1945, Truman had introduced
economic measures that would become part of his Fair Deal program. As a
result, the minimum wage was increased from 40 to 75 cents an hour through an
amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and Social Security benefits
were extended to include approximately ten million more people. During his
second term, Truman ordered U.S. forces into action when North Korean troops
invaded American-supported South Korea. Two items.
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