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Letter from Harry S. Truman to Jonathan Daniels

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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

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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 President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he took office upon Roosevelt's death in April, 1945. After recording his mostly unfavorable assessments of these individuals, Truman decided not to send the letter.

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