Correspondence between Harry S. Truman and President Lyndon B. Johnson

In this letter to former President Harry S. Truman, President Lyndon Johnson includes a press release from Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, commemorating President Truman's Executive Order that desegregated the armed services twenty years before. President Johnson congratu...

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August 7, 1968 J Dear Mr. President: I read with pleasure and satisfaction your warm letter of July 26th. We have come a long way in meeting the pressing problems that confront us at home and abroad. I have every confidence that this nation will never fail to meet its human obligations. Mrs. Truman joins me in sending you and Mrs. Johnson our sincere good wishes. is Sincerely yours, to ARCHIVES NATIONAL RECORDS SERVICE AND of HARRY S. TRUMAN Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson The White House Washington, D. C.

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