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Acheson, Dean

college roommate of Cole Porter, 144

tributes to Truman, 121–22

Truman correspondence to, 219

with Truman in Washington, 116

Truman’s last day as president, 13

Adams, Edith, 155

Adams, John, 224

Adams, John Quincy, 11

African American music, 195–96

African Americans, 44–46, 90, 96–97, 134, 194

Air Force One, 189, 190

Albertazzie, Ralph, 187

Allen, Lewis, 69

American Airlines, 188

American Legion convention, 138

American Road Builders Association, 49

Amidon, Edna, 183

Anan, Kofi, 164

Anderson, Charles Arthur, 212

Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, 120

Anti-Defamation League, 199

Archer Daniels Midland, 67

Architectural Record, The, 63

Armstrong, Louis, 197

Arnold, Kenneth, 174–75

Astor, John Jacob, IV, 151

Astor, William Waldorf, 151

Automobile Club of New York, 165

automobiles

air-conditioning in, 40

of Chrysler collectors, 30–33

death statistics due to, 36–37

driving accidents and safety issues, 37, 41–42, 82, 171

first cross-country trip in, 87

fuel efficiency, 61

growth of industry, 89

1917 cost of, 89

postwar demand and production statistics, 90

of Truman, 26–30, 27, 28, 32, 39–40, 40, 219, 233–38, 237

WWII rationing of, 90

“Barbara Frietchie” (Whittier), 110

Barker, Warren, 154

Barrow, Clyde, 63

Barry, Marion, 114–15

Bastian, Bob, 97

Baton Rouge bus boycott, 45–47

Baughman, U. E., 36, 37

Beasley, Fred, 182

Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, 134, 138–39

Berlin, Irving, 64

Berliner, Emile, 196

Bernstein, Leonard, 154

Beveridge, Mark, 29–30

Blair, Frank, 157

Blauvelt, James, 150–51

Bliss, Henry, 36

book contracts, 25–26, 54. See also memoirs

Bourbon, Illinois, 76

Bouvier, Jacqueline Lee, 126

Boyle, Bill, 77

BP (British Petroleum), 120

Brannan, Charles, 121

Brazel, Mac, 174

Brecht, Raymond C., 136

Breckinridge, John C., 58

Bridgestone/Firestone, 67, 68

Brinkley, Douglas, 231

British Petroleum (BP), 120

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 45

Brumidi, Constantino, 126

Bud’s Golden Cream, 51–53

Burleson, Albert S., 130

Bush, George H. W., 119, 229

Bush, George W., 228, 230–31

Butler, John Marshall, 129

Byrnes, Bill, 105

Byrnes, Elizabeth, 105–6

Calderon, Felipe, 152

Campbell, James A., 5

Camp David, 139

Cancellare, Frank, 212

Carnegie, Andrew, 130

Caro, Robert A., 125

Carter, Jimmy, 122–25, 124, 229

Caterpillar (company), 67

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 119–20

Challenge to Liberty, The (Hoover, H.), 140

Chapman, Oscar L., 121

Chodorov, Jerome, 154

Chrysler automobiles, 27–33, 28, 39–40, 219, 233–38, 237

Churchill, Winston, 114, 142, 218

Cincinnatus (Roman general), 35

civil rights, 45–46, 134, 223

Clark, Alex, 204, 205

Clark, J. Murray, 207, 208–9

Clark, Janet, 208

Clark, Jim, 207–8

Clark, William, 85

Clay, Henry, 91

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 54. See also Twain, Mark

Cleveland, Grover, 129–30

Clifford, Clark, 116–17, 119

Clifford, Marny, 117, 119

Clifford, Randall, 117

Clifford home. See Rockville Pike farmhouse

Clinton, Bill, 19, 115, 124, 227–30

Clinton, Hillary, 227–28

Cocklin, Howard, 176

Coke bottles, 108, 108, 110, 110

Cole, Charles “Curly,” 182

Columbine II (airplane), 189

Comden, Betty, 154

commercialization of presidency, 25, 228

communism

criticism of Truman and, 48, 139

McCarthy and, 5, 6, 92–93

Nixon, R., and, 127–28

Connelly, Matthew

on Stevenson campaign, 58, 59, 79

Truman’s last day as president, 13

walking with Truman, 146, 147

Conway, Rose, 23

Coolidge, Calvin, 114, 140

Cooper, D. B., 212

Country House restaurant, 168–69

Creason, Bob, 234, 236–37

Creason, Carey, 233–38

Creason, Gladys, 233–34

Crocker, Sewell K., 87

Crusade in Europe (Eisenhower), 26

Cumberland Narrows, 106

Cushing, Richard J., 161

Daniel, Clifton, 219

Daniel, Margaret Truman. See Truman