Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and J. Howard Bushway

P. P.R. 7 3111 February 26, 1947 3747. 3. Dear Mr. Bushway: 1 read your letter of February twentieth with a great deal of interest and 1 sincerely hope that you won t think any less of me because my mother is not a native xPP74 of Vermont - she was born in Jackson County, Missouri in 1852 and she now lives within three or four miles of the place where she was born. Her parents came from Kentucky to Missouri in 1842. xPP7322 I regret sincerely that the connection with Verment cannot be made, although I have some very good friends who are Vermonters. Senators Warren Austin, George Aiken and Ralph E. Flanders, and one of my Secretaries XPP72844 William Hassett are from Vermont and they are sturdy people. I discussed your suggestion about bringing outsiders in for the education of the Vermonters and Mr. Hassett told me that if the outsiders survived their first two x244 weeks they might be able to do something about it but he doubted very much that they would survive more than two weeks, because the people of Vermont are xs very sure that their plans and programs are the best in the country. I think nearly every State feels that way and that is what makes the country great. I'll proceed to tell my mother that a Vermonter sends her his Best Regards. Sincerely yours, HARRY S. TRUMAN Mr. J. Howard Bushway Bushway Ice Cream Somerville, Massachusetts