Title

Harry and Ike : the partnership that remade the postwar world

Description

Harry S.Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower worked more closely between 1945 and 1952 than any other two American presidents of the twentieth century. They were partners in changing America's role in the world and in responding to the challenge of a Soviet Europe, yet they are remembered more for the acrimony that ended their friendship. Both were men of character, intelligence, and principle, and as the nation learned in the 1950s, they could also hold a grudge. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews with close associates, this is the first examination of the warm friendship, bitter rupture, and eventual reconciliation between two remarkable Americans. From the author of The Eisenhowers: Reluctant Dynasty and Dark Horse comes a volume focusing exclusively on the relationship between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman.--BOOK JACKET.

Identifier

973166

684853558

Creator

Neal, Steve

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2001

Program air date: February 10, 2002

Publisher

Scribner

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes from front endpapers and front flyleaf: "H.T. and Ike's diaries. - H.T. outlived Ike ('69) by 3 years. - 7 years difference in age. - 1950: Ike 60. - Both men vowed nothing would diminish their friendship. - Grants [from] HST Library Institute. - FDR chose both men because "neither acted like men of destiny"; one from Abilene - the other [from] Independence: 150 miles apart. - Both were sick in childhood - T.: Dipth., E.: leg amputated? - Both read history; favorite general: Hannibal. - Truman wrote but did not send a lot of letters. Where did you find them? - Korea: June 25, 1950. - Creators of NATO - Hoover against - Ike Supreme Comm., Columbia U. - Robert Taft. - MacArthur - keynoted 1952 convention. - Taft; Stevenson. - Ike turns down Truman's invite for W. H. briefing, p. 258. - Truman was hurt; never again speaks to Ike with warmth. - H.T. lettters to Stevenson: not sent, p. 261. - WWI: H.T. to Europe; I: home front. - H.T. paid off debt on his clothing store in 1944. - Korea: Ike, I shall go to Korea, p. 278. - Grant from Harry S.T. Library Institute; talked with son John E. and Clifton Truman Daniel, dir. of Public Affairs at Harry Truman College in Chi. - 1) 1st meeting - June 1945 - welcomes Ike home (photo); H.T. would turn over [?] to Ike if he could. - 2) Hometowns in Midwest: products of middle class families: education; families; brother; reading; wives. - H.T. served only 88 days as V.P. - Truman told Ike at Potsdam: help you get [?], p. 44. - Ike against use of A-bomb." - Notes from back endpapers: "Truman against JFK because he was a Catholic; called Nixon Tricky Dick." -- Annotations by Brian Lamb in the margins and underlining of pertinent phrases throughout the book. -- Examples: p. 48: "Truman and Eisenhower believed that Germany deserved harsh treatment." - p. 85: Truman and Eisenhower would become outspoken advocates for unification of the armed forces." - p. 166: "Truman and Eisenhower loathed McCarthy as a menace to constitutional rights. But neither the president nor the general could ignore him and McCarthy would eventually drive a wedge between them." - p. 206: "Truman wrote: "Don't see how a country can produce such men as Robert E. Lee, John J. Pershing, Eisenhower & Bradley, and at the same time produce Custers, Pattons, and MacArthurs."" - p. 254: ""I would have stayed uniform, "Eisenhower told his son, "if I had known the Democrats were going to run Stevenson."" - p. 320: "Kennedy's death brought Truman and Eisenhower closer together."

Subject

"Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972."

"Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969."

"Friendship--United States--Case studies."

"Presidents--United States--Biography."

"Generals--United States--Biography."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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