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    "title": "Letter from Harry S. Truman to Bess W. Truman",
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        "Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969",
        "Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945",
        "Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869",
        "Wallace, Madge Gates, 1862-1952",
        "Odum, Reathel M.",
        "Rosenman, Samuel I. (Samuel Irving), 1896-1973",
        "Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845",
        "Buchanan, James, 1791-1868",
        "Ross, Charles G. (Charles Griffith), 1885-1950",
        "Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919",
        "Truman, Martha Ellen, 1852-1947",
        "Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886",
        "Truman, Mary Jane, 1889-1978",
        "Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874",
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        "Ex-presidents",
        "Presidential family",
        "Presidential residences",
        "Ghosts"
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    "ocrText": "THE WHITE house\nJune 12, 1945\nWASHINGTON\n90 today, I was a reasonably hap-\nDear Bess Just two months a\nRy and contented Vice- President.\nmay te you can remember that for\nfack too But things have chaned 26\nmuch it hardly seems real.\nIsit here in this old house and\nyork on preigh affairs, read report,\nand mark on speeches- all the\nwhile listening to the ghosts yolk\nup and down the hall may and ea\nright in here in the study The ploor\npop and the chapes more tack and\nbith Ican just imagine old andy\nand Tiddy having an againment oth\nFranklia On Joshnes Buchanan and\nFranklia Pierce deciding which Has\nthe more useless to the country\nand when millard Filmore and Ches\ntee arther join in for place and show\nthe din is almost undearable. But\nIstill get some mark done.\nhe atl to do some mock on the\nHope the neather lets up and house. you will\nThe gibson toy should have whats been taken\nI'm not att to do as many things for\ncare of long age I'll see happlaed.\nmy friends non at I did when Dermat Ina\njust a dirty organization\nand a County Audye\ngland there Hope you do. We are morking\nguess you and Helen will have a\non Dr. Wallace glad exerytody was\nparty Undocittedly they the malking\nin his night mind at the purity\nmother But I'm sure you had a\nthe Heaight and narron for your\nnice time avyrtay.\nThataddress mixed is\nme some\nmg mad I addressed letter to you\nthat's the May you spell that thish)\nat 4701 Conn. are Independince,\nMo., and another one 219 North Del\nafface, Washington, D.C. Now it seems\nin the House, here did M A catch that\nIseat one to the Nolands. They fogs\nthe I'll but hase they Reattal did the attend other two to the\nchoices you suggest. I have nitseen\nhers but tine since you left.\nShe comes in 44 after I go other\nlunch and does n A come back until\nto the office, usually goes out to\nhome before I get after here.\nI am gone again and then goes\nHad Charlie Ross & Roseman\nto heach yesterday. We norked on\nmy San Francisco speech Thatate\nis portponed until next neeknow\non account of the slow mixing and\ngen. visit.\nWrite the when you can-dhope\nevery day.\nglad you saw Mauna Hany\n+ Mary\nFBP\nTHE WHITE house\nM194582\nAIR 8 MAIL\nUNITED STATES CENTS OF AMERICA\nROSY\nMrs. Harry STrumar\n219 North Delaware St,\nIndependence,\nThe"
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