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Auction archive: Lot number 286

TRUMAN, Harry S Autograph letter signed (“Harry”), to Dean A...

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$2,500
Auction archive: Lot number 286

TRUMAN, Harry S Autograph letter signed (“Harry”), to Dean A...

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$2,500
Beschreibung:

TRUMAN, Harry S. Autograph letter signed (“Harry”), to Dean Acheson, 18 March 1963. 3 pages, 4to. Personal stationery.
TRUMAN, Harry S. Autograph letter signed (“Harry”), to Dean Acheson, 18 March 1963. 3 pages, 4to. Personal stationery. “THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE IS WAY OUT IN FIELD LEFT OF THIRD BASE” Truman takes a swipe at Charles De Gaulle and bemoans the government’s lax method of maintaining presidential records and archives. He praises a recent speech by Acheson on the “‘Great’ De Gaulle.” Truman points out that he has kept ‘the documents of that period,” the years from 1946-1950, during US-French tensions over Marshall Plan aid and NATO. “There were two sets of all these important reports of these important meetings…I’ve no idea what the State, defense, Commerce and Agriculture did with their copies, but I have mine and expect to keep them for the use of my friends—you at the top of the list.” He goes on to bemoan the lax way in which the government keeps records, and points out the recent theft from the National Archives of a set of valuable coins presented to the United States by a foreign head of state. “They may catch the thieves but they’ll never find the coins…” [ With :] TRUMAN. Autograph letter signed (“Harry Truman”), to his former Secretary of State Dean Acheson (1893-1971), 3 pages, 4to (8 ½ x 6 ½). Boldly penned. ¿presidential history¿. The former president has “just had a letter from John McCormack informing me that the legislation authorizing the indexing and microfilming of Presidential papers has passed! If Hoover, those Republican Congressmen, [William] Knowland and our Democrats had not been asked, it wouldn’t have happened. We’ve accomplished something that should have been done two generations ago....” He has been working to “place the history of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial in a position that young students can understand. You know I’m no scholar in any line – but I do know that our history and the men who made it have been left in the lurch. The New England historians saw to that. Why so called Puritans find it so hard with truth when it is against them. That is the reason I’m interested in having all the facts as we know them available. Maybe I am a nut on the subject...Historians, those who edit news stories and even men who think they know facts, have be studied and their errors put in the proper light...

Auction archive: Lot number 286
Auction:
Datum:
7 Dec 2015
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
Beschreibung:

TRUMAN, Harry S. Autograph letter signed (“Harry”), to Dean Acheson, 18 March 1963. 3 pages, 4to. Personal stationery.
TRUMAN, Harry S. Autograph letter signed (“Harry”), to Dean Acheson, 18 March 1963. 3 pages, 4to. Personal stationery. “THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE IS WAY OUT IN FIELD LEFT OF THIRD BASE” Truman takes a swipe at Charles De Gaulle and bemoans the government’s lax method of maintaining presidential records and archives. He praises a recent speech by Acheson on the “‘Great’ De Gaulle.” Truman points out that he has kept ‘the documents of that period,” the years from 1946-1950, during US-French tensions over Marshall Plan aid and NATO. “There were two sets of all these important reports of these important meetings…I’ve no idea what the State, defense, Commerce and Agriculture did with their copies, but I have mine and expect to keep them for the use of my friends—you at the top of the list.” He goes on to bemoan the lax way in which the government keeps records, and points out the recent theft from the National Archives of a set of valuable coins presented to the United States by a foreign head of state. “They may catch the thieves but they’ll never find the coins…” [ With :] TRUMAN. Autograph letter signed (“Harry Truman”), to his former Secretary of State Dean Acheson (1893-1971), 3 pages, 4to (8 ½ x 6 ½). Boldly penned. ¿presidential history¿. The former president has “just had a letter from John McCormack informing me that the legislation authorizing the indexing and microfilming of Presidential papers has passed! If Hoover, those Republican Congressmen, [William] Knowland and our Democrats had not been asked, it wouldn’t have happened. We’ve accomplished something that should have been done two generations ago....” He has been working to “place the history of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial in a position that young students can understand. You know I’m no scholar in any line – but I do know that our history and the men who made it have been left in the lurch. The New England historians saw to that. Why so called Puritans find it so hard with truth when it is against them. That is the reason I’m interested in having all the facts as we know them available. Maybe I am a nut on the subject...Historians, those who edit news stories and even men who think they know facts, have be studied and their errors put in the proper light...

Auction archive: Lot number 286
Auction:
Datum:
7 Dec 2015
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
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