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    "title": "Longhand Note of President Harry S. Truman",
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        "Truman, J. Vivian (John Vivian), 1886-1965",
        "Truman, Bess Wallace, 1885-1982",
        "Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865",
        "Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872",
        "Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908",
        "Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845",
        "Wallace, Madge Gates, 1862-1952",
        "Truman, Martha Ellen, 1852-1947",
        "Truman, Margaret (Mary Margaret), 1924-2008",
        "Medill, Joseph, 1823-1899",
        "Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951",
        "McCormick, Robert Rutherford, 1880-1955",
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        "Newspapers",
        "Journalists",
        "Presidents"
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    "ocrText": "ARCHIVES NATIONAL TRUMAN AND LIBRARY\nRECORDS\nN.S.\nGOVERNMENT\nTHE white house\nwashington\nDec. 6, 1952.\nYesterday at 12:30 my mother\nin law passed away. She was a\ngrand lady. When I hear these\nmother in law jokes I don't bough-\nThey are not preay to me, because\nbiother. my mother was a good\nI've had a good one. So has my\nmother-ia-lay to Virian's and my\nwife. St gives me a pain in the\nthe so called humorist crack about\nreck to read the anful jokes that\nmother-in-law.\nToday me go to Missouri to hung\nher. Four years ago, 1946, I was on\nthe same enand for my mother.\nThe safatage press- Beetie + Willie\nTHE white house\nTARMAT E.S. S. ARCHIVES SERVICE RECORDS NATIONAL government TRUMAR AND LIBRABY\nmade it appear washington that A I was wasting\nmother may god forgive them. I\npublic money to he decent to way\ncactand mont.\nThe same lice will do the same\npufficity job when Itake Ins.\nWallace, Bess and Margaret have\nto bury the mother. - in law.\nTo hell with them. When history\nis written they will he the soas\nof fitches - not I.\nLook at old Indill, Horace\ngreely etal in Lincolus time.\nBiddle in Jackson and old wan\nPulitzer in Chseland\nfirst Jackson, Lincoln and\ncliseland who here thong !"
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