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Decatur, Illinois, 60–61, 65–68, 69–70
Decatur, Stephen, 67
Decatur Adult Transition Center, 65–67
defense policies, 34, 136–37, 139
Democratic National Committee and Party, 76–77
Democratic National Convention (1948), 133
Democratic National Convention (1960), 126
Dennison, Robert, 222
Deshler (hotel), 181–85
Desmond, Frank, 93
Dewey, Thomas E., 10, 154
Diamond, Neil, 158–59
Dickinson, Angie, 114
Dillinger, John, 63
Dixie Clipper (airplane), 186
Dixiecrats, 134
Dixon, George, 132
Dixon, Jeremiah, 95
Douglas, Stephen A., 57–58
Dulles, Allen W., 120
Eagleton, Thomas, 226
Edison, Thomas, 196
Eisenhower, Dwight D. “Ike”
death of, 226
as father of interstate highway system, 91
inauguration and speech, 7–9, 12–13, 229
Iranian coup, 120
at Kennedy funeral, 222
presidential airplanes of, 189
presidential campaign of, 6–7, 58–59
presidential pension legislation signed by, 221
at presidential retreat, 139
Rosenberg appeal, 48, 55
Truman and, 33–34, 222
Eisenhower, Mamie, 6, 189, 222
Elizabeth, Queen, 114
Ellington, Duke, 197
Empire State Building, 147, 151
espionage, 47–48, 55, 68–69
Exner, Judith, 114
ex-presidents. See also specific names of ex-presidents
addressing Senate, 129
bonding of, 225, 229
careers of, 11, 227–28, 229
commercialization of presidency, refusal of, 25, 228
government paid expenses of, 230
group photographs of, 229
income of, 3, 11, 227–28
longest tenure, 225
office expenses (2008) of, 229
partisan politics and media technology, 139–40
pensions for, 129–30, 221–22, 229–30
Secret Service protection of, 223
Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), 186
Famine Emergency Committee, 144–45
Federal-Aid Highway Act, 91
federal civil service system, 5
federal highway policies, 86
Felker, Grace, 100
Ferdinand Magellan (train), 14, 59, 211–12
FHA (Future Homemakers of America), 183–84, 185–86
Field, Marshall, III, 153
Fields, Joseph, 154
Fike, Stanley, 35–36, 149
Fillmore, Millard, 24
Firestone Tires, 67
first ladies. See also specific names of first ladies
longest-lived, 226
Secret Service protection of, 223
widow pensions, 130
Fleming, Jack, 157
Flying White House, The (terHorst and Albertazzie), 187
Flynn, Edward J., 9–10
Ford, Gerald, 19, 113, 228, 229
Ford automobiles, 32, 37, 89
Former Presidents Act, 221
Fort Necessity, 95
Frankfurter, Felix, 45
French and Indian War, 95
Frostburg, Maryland, 99–105
Future Homemakers of America (FHA), 183–84, 185–86
Gallagher, Tom, 167
Gallup Poll, 224
Garfield, James, 5
Garroway, Dave, 156, 158
Gasper, Harry, 204
Gates, George Porterfield, 20
Gates-Wallace House, 20–21
General Electric, 67
Gennett, Henry, 196
Gennett Records, 196–97, 200, 200
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (film), 149
Gentry, Sue, 42
George Washington Hotel Company, 178, 179
Goldwater, Barry, 191
Grandview, Missouri (Truman farm)
as Truman Library location, 21, 24, 154, 219
Johnson, Lyndon B., and public library donation, 125
sale of Truman farm, 220
Truman’s farming career in, 76
Grant, Ulysses S., 11, 54, 129
Great Depression, 90, 144, 151
Green, Adolph, 154
Greenglass, David, 47
Gromyko, Andrei, 159
Grover, Wayne, 59
Grove’s (restaurant), 69–70, 72–73
Guide to the National Road, A (Raitz), 90
Guiteau, Charles, 5
Gulf station at Frederick, Maryland, 106–10, 108, 110
Hais, Alan, 30–33
Hall, Leonard W., 139
Hammarskjold, Dag, 162
Hangge, Pierce, 212
Hannibal, Missouri, 51–53
Harding, Warren, 130
Harriman, Averill, 26
Harry S. Truman Library
dedication of, 219
fundraising for, 25, 153–54
location plans of, 21, 24, 154, 219
photographs displayed at, 117
Truman burial sites at, 226
Truman’s office at, 220
Truman with schoolchildren at, 220
Hartnett, Francis, 61, 70
Hastings, Ed, 141
Heinman, Arthur, 63