Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971 by David McCullough

Author:David McCullough [McCullough, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307594624
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2010-11-02T04:00:00+00:00

The speech Truman sends Acheson is actually drawn from Truman’s Inaugural Address, not the State of the Union Message of 1949. The speech puts forward, like the Inaugural Address, a “program for peace and freedom” and calls on the leaders of the new Democratic Congress to “come up with what it takes to assure peace, liberty and the welfare of all nations.” In this letter Truman also expresses worry about, among other things, the crisis in Egypt over the Suez Canal.

November 30, 1956

Dear Dean:

I sincerely hope that virus infection has left you and that you are well on the road to recovery.

I sent you a copy of the speech I made in St. Joseph night before last which undoubtedly went to your office. I am sending you another copy so you can contemplate it at home. Maybe it will contribute to your recovery—it is a paraphrase of the State of the Union Message of 1949 and it seems to me it is just as good now as it was then.

I have been terribly worried about the foreign situation as well as the domestic one and I am urging all the members of Congress, with whom I can get in touch, to come up with something because I don’t think there will be any leadership from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Tell Alice that Mrs. Truman joins me in best wishes to both of you.

Sincerely yours,

Harry S. Truman

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