Letter from Harry S. Truman to Jonathan Daniels

In this letter from President Harry S. Truman to his former press secretary, Jonathan Daniels, who was writing a biography of the President (published in 1950 as "The Man of Independence"), Truman frankly evaluates the Cabinet members and other high officials he inherited from...

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HARRY $ NATIONAL TRUMAR LIBRARY D.S. GOVE AND not wailed THE WHITE HOUSE Feb.26.1950. WASHINGTON Dear Jona than:- I monder if you have thought to go into the merale of the calinet and those background and ability of each who sat with the catine which I inherited on april 12, 1945. It should make an interesting I should A hing the subject chapter in your look Mayle to your attention, fut as I look back on that situation it makes the shudder I am sure that God almighty had me fg the hand. He must have had a personal in twest in the