TRUMAN APPROVES HIS ENTRY IN A ‘WHO’S WHO’ TRUMAN (Harry S., 1884-1972, 33rd President of the U.S.A.)

Fine Typed Letter Signed to the Editor of the International Year Book and Statesmen’s Who’s Who, saying that “the attached statement on my career is correct and is in the best form I’ve seen it for any one of these things. Thanks a lot for giving me a chance to approve it...”, 1 side A4, Federal Reserve Bank Building headed paper, Kansas City, Missouri, 5th January

Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly as the 34th vice president in 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Assuming the presidency after Roosevelt's death, Truman implemented the Marshall Plan in the wake of World War II to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism.

Item Date:  1954

Stock No:  42463      £475

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