McKinney, Frank, Jr., 78, 79
McKinney, Kathy, 206
McKinney, Margaret, 78, 79, 205, 218
McKinney Clark, Claire, 77, 78, 79, 204, 205, 207–8, 209
McKinney reception, 203–5
McLure House, 91, 92–94
McNamara, Robert, 37
Meeropol, Abel, 69
Meeropol, Anne, 69
memoirs of Truman
contracts and deadlines for, 25–26, 54
first volume, 218
second volume, 218
third book, 21, 109, 123, 125, 219
writing style, 218–19
Missouri, 43–44
Mitchell, Stephen, 78, 80
Monroe, James, 11, 86
Monroe, Marilyn, 149
Morosco Theater, 164
Morton, Jelly Roll, 197
Moses, Robert, 161
Mossadegh, Mohammed, 119–20
“Most Admired Men” lists, 224
Mr. Citizen (Truman, H. S.), 21, 109, 123, 125
“Mr. President” title, 15
Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 46
Murphy, Charles, 79
Myers, Frances, 23
Myers, Henry, 187, 188
My Three Angels (play), 164
Nagasaki bomb, 163, 223
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 45
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 37
National Museum of the United States Air Force, 190–91
National Old Trails Road Association, 49–50, 197
National Road (Route 40)
deterioration and improvement bills, 198–99
expansion of, 91
federal funding of, 86
gorges, 106
highest point, 96
hotels on, 178
Interstate 64 and, 215
road numbering system and, 90
towns on, 178
Naud, Tom, 158
Negro Mountain, 96–97
Nemesis (purported namesake of Negro Mountain), 96
“Never Again” clubs, 116
New Homemakers of America, 185
New York City, 141–48, 148, 156, 161
Nixon, Pat, 225
Nixon, Richard
Carter’s meeting of, 124–25
on commercialism of presidency, 228
at Eisenhower inauguration, 8
Gallup Poll rating, 224
Mayflower Hotel and, 114
as president, 225
resignation of, 226
Truman’s meeting with, 3, 126, 127, 128
Truman’s relationship with, 126–28, 218, 229
visit with Trumans, 225
Oberholtzer, Madge, 194–95, 199
O’Connor, Basil, 153–54
O’Dwyer, William, 161
One Columbus Center, 183
Osborne, John, 53
Osborne’s Café, 51–53
Osler, William, 17
Oxford University, 218
Packard Motor Car Company, 115
Palmer House, 182
Panetta, Leon, 227
Pappas, George, 100, 101, 103, 105
Pappas, George, Jr., 100, 101, 103
Pappas, George W., 101–3, 102, 104
Parker, Bonnie, 63
Parker, Dorothy, 140
Parkview Motel, 61–62, 65
Paul, Ron, 209
Pauley, Ed, 26
Pendergast, Jimmy, 9
Pendergast, Tom, 9
Pennsylvania Turnpike, 170–73
pensions
congressional, 130, 131
history of, 16–18
presidential, 129–31, 221–22, 230
for presidential widows, 130
Peron, Juan, 145
Perry, Samuel, 118
Peters, Mize, 41, 156
Phillips, H. I., 110
Pierce, Franklin, 11
Pioneer Grill, 178–79
pioneer statues, women, 50
Pius XII, Pope, 218
Porter, Cole, 143, 152
presidents. See also ex-presidents; specific names of presidents
airplanes of, 186–90
income of, 12, 222
ranking polls of, 224
retreats of, 139
press coverage
of Bess Truman, 81–82, 149
in Decatur, 62, 70, 73
at Gulf station in Frederick, 107, 108–9
impromptu conferences at Waldorf-Astoria, 142–43
leaving New York, 166
Madonna of the Trail statue, 193
at Mayflower Hotel, 113
at McKinney home, 79–81, 206
photographers in New York, 147
post-election photograph in St. Louis, 211–12
in Washington, 131–32
Princess Restaurant, The, 100–105
Project Blue Book, 175, 191
Pruitt-Igoe public housing project, 213–14
Raitz, Karl, 90
Rayburn, Sam, 221
Raye, Martha, 157
Reagan Library, 229
Reeves, R. H., 82–83
Republicans, 34, 136, 209
Reserve Officers Association
convention invitation and attendance, 33, 34, 134
convention location, 134, 138–39
founding of, 33
Truman’s speech at, 135, 135–37, 139
retirement, 16–18. See also pensions
Rex, Ray, 71, 73
Rib Café, 214–15
Richmond, Indiana, 193–201
Riedal, Fred, 184
River Club, 148, 152–53
roads
driving accidents and deaths, 36–37, 41–42, 82, 171
history of, 62–63, 86–90
interstate highway system, 91, 96
road markings, standardization of, 82
Truman’s knowledge of and fascination with, 49–50
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
securi
ty
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 press conference, 81, 82
nicknames of, 8
on Secret Service protection, 223
sports, favorite, 21, 226
train ride to Missouri, 14–16
Women’s National Democratic Club tea, 121
Truman, Harrison, 88–89
Truman, Harry S.
alcohol consumption, 155–56
automobiles of, 26–30, 27, 28, 32, 40, 40, 219
book signing rituals started by, 123
at Bud’s Golden Cream, 52
Bush, George W., compared to, 230–31
character of, 28, 70–71, 95
childhood of, 54
as civil rights supporter, 44–45
on coping with mobs, 116
daily routine as ex-president, 22–24, 25
on daughter’s husband, 219
death and burial, 226
in Decatur, Illinois, 62
early political career, 9–10
education of, 11
Eisenhower’s inauguration and, 5–6, 7–9, 12–13
employment as ex-president, 23–24
on ex-president titles, 15
family of, 11, 44, 50
finances as ex-president, 3, 12, 18, 25
food preferences, 82
on French roads, 49
health and exercise routines, 10–11, 13, 22, 22–23
honorary degrees of, 218
later years, 223–25, 226
love of driving, 40–41
love of packing for trips, 39
marriage of, 149–50, 219
at Mayflower Hotel, 112
on memorials to living, 24
middle initial of, 20
in New York with cabbies, 148
on 1952 election, 206
with Nixon, R., 127
political activities as ex-president, 218
as president, 5–6, 10, 12, 15, 224
president-to-citizen transition, 35, 217
on raising daughters, 204
reading preferences, 54
reelection rumors, 113
religion of, 147
at Reserve Officers Association convention, 135
residence of, 20–21
St. Louis post-election photographs, 211–12
train ride to Missouri, 14–16
with wife and daughter, 8
with wife and daughter in automobile, 166
with wife and McKinney family, 78
with wife at home, 221
with wife on road trip, 43
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