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Oral History Interviews with
Edward D. McKim
Served under Capt. Harry S. Truman, Battery D, 129th Field Artillery
Regiment, 1917-19, and, subsequently in the U.S. Army Reserve
Corps with Mr. Truman. Chief Administrative Assistant to the President
(1945) and Administrative Assistant to the Federal Loan Administrator
(1945); member of the Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Company,
1950-53; and close personal friend of Mr. Truman since World War
I.
Interview Transcripts
February 17 | & February 19, 1964
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NOTICE
These are transcripts of
tape-recorded interviews conducted for the Harry S. Truman Library. A
draft of each transcript was edited by the interviewee but only minor
emendations were made; therefore, the reader should remember that these
are essentially transcripts of the spoken, rather than the written word.
Numbers appearing in square brackets (ex. [45]) within the transcript
indicate the pagination in the original, hardcopy version of the oral
history interview.
RESTRICTIONS
These oral history transcripts may be read,
quoted from, cited, and reproduced for purposes of research. They may not
be published in full except by permission of the Harry S. Truman Library.
List of Subjects
Discussed
Allen, Captain Charles, 7, 8, 9
Allen, Charles B., 2
Allen, George, 112,
118,
127,
128-129,
144,
163
Allen, Pete, 2
American Legion Conventions:
Andrews, T. Coleman, 159,
160
Army and Navy Surplus Property Board, 132,
133-136
Aylward, James P., 58, 59
Barry, Francis, 31
Battle
of Dugny, 78-79,
81
"Battle
of Who Ran" (World War I), 18-19
Bendetsen,
Karl R., 160
Berg,
Archbishop Gerald T., 168
Board
of Election Commissioners, 5
Bowman,
Fred, 118-119
Boyle,
William, 91-92
Brannon,
Francis A., 15
Breen,
William H., 15
Brice,
George, 33
Burke,
Edward, 77-78
Butler,
Paul, 164
Byrnes,
James F., 97, 98
Camp Coetquidon, 15, 22
Camp
Doniphan, 2, 14
Camp
Ripley, 50, 73, 74
Canfil,
Fred, 36, 37, 63-65,
110
Carpenter,
Terry, 61, 62
Central
High School, 28
Cheppy
Orchard (France), 17-18
Chow,
Albert, 139
Cochran,
Governor Roy, 35-36
Conboy,
Francis L., 15
Condon,
Ed, 82-83
Connelly,
Matthew, 113,
118,
124,
147
Creighton
University (Omaha.), 167-168
Davis, William, 121,
122,
123
DeLasalle
Academy, 2, 13, 15
Dickmann,
Bernard F., 36, 72
Dobel,
Riley E., 15
Donnelly,
Jiggs, 26, 32
Doorly,
Henry, 149
Drum,
Robert, 147,
148
Duncan,
Richard, 89-90
Early, Stephen, 127
Eisenhower,
Dwight D., 129,
130,
131,
142,
155
England,
Clarence, 42
Eppley,
Eugene, 150,
151
Evans,
Milton R., 23
Evans,
Tom L., 100,
101,
116-117,
118
Fawcett, William, 52-53
Fisher,
Frank, 49
Flaherty,
Daniel L., 15
Flannigan,
Mike, 60
Ft.
Riley, 29
Ft.
Sill, 3
French
Lick Springs, Indiana, 37
Fulton,
Hugh, 113,
118,
126
Garner, John Nance, 111
Griswold,
Dwight, 72-74
Guffey,
Senator Joseph, 37, 38-39
Hannegan, Robert E., 72, 98, 101,
127
"Henry
Stanley" (railroad car), 111
Higginbotham,
John J., 15
Hoffman,
Frank G., 21
Hopkins,
Harry, 38
Householder,
Victor, 79-80,
81
Hughes,
Maj. General Everett, 172
Ickes, Harold, 38, 85-86
Jackson County (Mo.) campaign and election of 1922, 42-44
Jacobson,
Edward, 14, 30-31
Kansas City Post, 8
Kennedy,
John F., 164-166
Kenny,
Robert, 139
Kirby,
William, 76
Klemm,
Colonel Karl D., 20-21,
25,
34
Knowlson,
James, 132
Ku
Klux Klan, 45-46
McCabe, Thomas, 132,
134-135
McDonald, Fred, 13, 15
McKim,
Edward D.:
Army and Navy Surplus Property Board, 132,
133-135
and 1944 Democratic National Convention, 96-104
and 1956 Democratic National Convention, 163-164
demotion in rank, World War I, 11
Foamite Fire Foam Company, 28
insurance field, 29
Jackson County (Mo.) campaign and election (1922), 42-43
Lt. Governor of Nebraska, candidacy for, 61
Missouri National Guard, recruitment for, 5
Nebraska legislature, files for, 58
Nebraska legislature, election to and service in, 60-61,
63
oilfields, worker in, 27
Omaha, moves to, 47
as
poker player, 51
Truman,
Harry S., advice to, on candidacy for Congress (1934), 57-58
Truman,
Harry S., April 13, 1945, visit with, 124-125
U.S.
Army Reserves, commission expires, 94
U.S.
Army Reserves, commissioned in, 28
Vice
Presidential campaign tour of 1944, duties in, 117-118
White
House, visits with Vice President Truman, 105-106
World
War I, service in France, 78-81
McLaughlin, Charles F., 74-75
Madison
Square Garden rally (1944), 114-115
Mansfield,
Mike, 137,
138
Marks,
Theodore (Ted), 50
Messall,
Victor, 71
Messenheimer,
C.A., 154,
155
"Military
Order of the Flying Coat Tails," 52
Morrison,
Governor Frank, 169
Neal, Fletcher, 122,
123
Oak Grove (Mo.) picnic, 1922 campaign, 42-43
Omaha, President Truman's 1948 campaign appearance in, 145-151
Omaha, visit by former President Truman to, (1962), 167-171
129th Field Artillery, Battery D:
Panama Canal Company, 143,
158-161
Patton,
General George S., Jr., 172-174
Paul,
Major General Bert, 36
Pearson,
Drew, 106,
107,
173-174
Pendergast,
James M., 59
Pendergast,
Thomas J. (Tom), 57
Peterson,
Val, 140,
141,
153-154,
155-157
Pick,
Lt. General Lewis A., 139-142,
143
Pope
Pius XII, 132
Presidential
campaign (1948), 152-153
Presidential
inauguration (January 1945), 118-119
Reinsch, Leonard, 118
Remon,
Colonel Jose, 161-162
Rice,
Carl, 157
Ridge,
Albert A., 15, 31
Ritter,
Captain Rollin, 7, 9-11, 12
Roberts,
Roy, 97
Rockhurst
College, 2, 7, 13
Roosevelt,
Franklin D., 37-38,
105-106
St. Mary's College (Kansas), 7, 8
St.
Patrick's School, 1
Salisbury,
Spencer, 46, 48-49
Sandifer,
Edward L., 16, 22, 23
Savage,
John, 149
Sawyer,
Charles, 134
Schmidt,
Ernest L., 15
Schwellenbach,
Lewis, 112
2nd
Field Artillery, Missouri National Guard, 2
77th
Field Artillery, 68
Sherlock,
Joseph W., 15
Sherman,
Hunter, 33
Sinatra,
Frank, 115
Snyder,
John W., 50, 51-52,
68,
69,
70,
129,
133,
136
Symington,
Stuart, 136-137
Taggart, Tom, 37
Teasley,
"Cushion foot," 27
Thacher,
Captain John, 7, 12
35th
Division reunion (1948), 146
Tiernan, L. Curtis, 20
Tobin, Maurice, 113,
119
Truman Committee, 90-91
Truman, Harry S.;
airplane, first ride in, 42-43
April 12, 1945, events of, 120-124
baseball game, World Series (1944), 108,
109
Battery D, assumes command of, 15-16
Battery D.reunion, pays for damages, 33-34
commander of Battery D, saves lives as, 24
Democratic National Convention in 1944, nomination for vice
presidency, 96-104
estimation of, 174-176
farewell dinner (1952), 163
football game, attends with Edward McKim, 87,
88
France,
service in, during World War I, 3, 4, 17-26
haberdashery, 27,
30
as a hunter, 53,
54
Jackson
County judge, decision to be candidate (1922), 41-42
McKim, Edward D., first meeting with, 5
McKim, Edward D., socializing with, 44-45
Omaha, Presidential speech in (June 1948), 145-151
as a poker player, 51,
127-128,
129-131
Presidential campaign of 1948, remarks on Republican complacency,
152-153
promotion to Captain, 12-13
Roosevelt, Franklin D., meets with, 38
Senatorial campaign of 1934, decision to be candidate, 55-59
speech on radio, for McKim's candidacy, 62
trophy, from Battery D (1919), 25-26
Vaughan, Harry, accompanied to West Coast by (World War II), 92-93
vice
presidential nominee, campaign tour (1944), 108-118
as
Vice President, visits White House with Edward McKim, 105-106
Truman, Margaret, 65, 66
Truman,
Mrs. Harry S. (Bess), 49, 116
Uncles, John J., 15
Vardaman, Jake, 54-55
Vatican,
representative to, 131-132
Vaughan,
Harry, 40-41,
50-51,
67-71,
92-93,
122,
124,
127
Vice
Presidential nomination, 1944 Democratic, 96-104
Vice
Presidential campaign, 1944 Democratic, 108-118
Walker, Frank, 127
Wallace,
Henry, 102-103,
114-115
Walsh,
Jerome, 89
Whitney,
Harry, 84, 85
Wilson,
Colonel Arthur, 92
Wooden,
McKinley, 22
Woodrow
Wilson (movie), 104,
105,
107
Woolridge,
Meigs, 18
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