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turnpikes, 170–71

road trips

first cross-country, 87

popularity of, 87–88

Truman’s first, 88–89

World’s Fair (1904) caravans, 87–88

during WWII, 90

Robbins, Charles, 52, 82, 113, 115

Rockefeller, John D., 161

Rockefeller, Nelson, 161

Rockville Pike farmhouse (Clifford home), 117–18

Rollins, Byron, 212

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (FDR)

air travel by, 186

death of, 10

historical ranking of, 224

Hoover, H., and, 140, 144

Mayflower Hotel and, 114

museum displays of, 190

Pennsylvania Turnpike funding, 170

presidential retreats of, 139

Truman as vice president, 10

Roosevelt, Kermit, 120, 153

Roosevelt, Theodore

Clifford home and, 118

income as ex-president, 228

pension campaigns and, 130

reelection attempt, 11

residence as ex-president, 19

Truman’s perception of, 57

Rosenberg, Ethel, 47–48, 55, 68–69

Rosenberg, Julius, 47–48, 55, 68–69

Rosenberg, Michael, 55, 69

Rosenberg, Robert, 55, 69

Ross, Charles, 187–88

Roswell Incident, 174, 191

Rothstein, Martin “Doc,” 99–100

Route 40. See National Road

Route 66, 90

Russell, Rosalind, 155

Sacred Cow (airplane), 186–88, 190, 191

Saleh, Allah-Yar, 119–20

Samford, John A., 176–77

Schlesinger, Arthur, 224

Schneithorst, Arthur, 213, 214

Schneithorst, Jim, Jr., 214

Schneithorst’s (restaurant), 212–13

Schoeppel, Andrew F., 128

Secret Service, 13–14, 223, 228, 230, 231

security

airline, 212

of ex-first ladies, 223

of ex-presidents, 13–14, 223, 228, 230, 231

national, and defense spending, 34, 136–37, 139

segregation, 44–47, 134

Seidenman, Sidney, 114

Senate luncheon meetings, 125–29

Sevareid, Eric, 7

Sherrow, Judy, 201

Silverman, Sam, 235

Simon, John Y., 60

Sinatra, Frank, 152

Singer, Mark, 68

Snyder, John W., 41, 121, 184

Sobell, Morton, 48

Social Security Act, 18

South Pacific (musical), 185

Soviet Union, 34, 47–48, 137, 159, 160–61

speed limits

Pennsylvania Turnpike and, 170, 171

safety and lack of, 37

Truman and, 37, 41, 42, 116, 172

during WWII, 90

Spitzer, Eliot, 115

Springfield, Illinois, 57, 58, 59

St. Louis, Missouri, 211–15

Stafford, Terry, 26

Stalker, Harold, 70

Stampler, Manley, 1–2, 172–73, 198

Stark, Lloyd, 126

Starr, James, 196

Starr Piano Factory, 196, 200, 200

State of Union addresses, 157

States’ Rights Democratic Party, 134

Stephenson, David C., 194–95, 199

Stevenson, Adlai, 7, 58–59, 78–79, 80, 113, 145

Stewart, Frederick, 29

Stokes, Isaac, 160, 161

Stone, Martin, 12

Straisant, Marcus, 147, 148

“Strange Fruit” (song), 69

Sullins, Virginia, 213

Sunday, Harvey, 168–70

Sunday, Helen, 168–69

Taft, Robert, 128, 131, 187

Taft, William H., 11, 130, 140

Teen Times (magazine), 186

television, 140, 156–58, 176

terHorst, J. F., 187

Thompson, Marguerite Peyton, 147

Thurmond, J. Strom, 134–35

Tiernan, Curtis, 195

Tim (Rockville Pike homeowner), 117–18

Toben, Mary, 51, 52, 53

Toben, Sylvester “Bud,” 50–53

Toben, Toni, 51

Tobin, Maurice J., 121

Today (television show), 3, 156–57, 158

Tolson, Clyde, 114

traffic regulations, 82

traffic-safety programs, 82–83

train cars, presidential, 14–16, 59, 211–12

Trayser, George M., 196

Tri-Manor (motel), 67, 68

Trohan, Walter, 15, 224

Truman, Anderson Shipp, 20

Truman, Bess (Elizabeth Virginia Wallace)

air travel and, 188–89

daily routines, 23

death and burial, 226

description, 184, 185

driving restrictions imposed by, 35, 42

Eisenhower’s inauguration and, 7–9, 13–14

family home of, 20–21 as first lady, 81–82

with future husband in automobile, 27

on happy marriage secrets, 204

with husband and daughter, 8

with husband and McKinney family, 78

with husband at home, 221

with husband in automobile, 166

with husband on road trip, 43

on husband’s vice president candidacy, 10

later years, 226

marriage of, 149–50, 219

McKinney porch