January 28, 1949

Charlie Ross, the President's Press Secretary and boyhood friend, gave the President a letter from the author Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wanted to know if it was true that when Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov met with him he told Truman that Russia had won the war and the United States would have to support Russia at a San Francisco conference where the United Nations was formed.

The President told Molotov that cooperation not a one-way street and according to Admiral Leahy, he told him a good deal more too.

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(Ross was Truman's boyhood friend. They graduated from the same class in 1901 from Independence High School. Ross went to college and became a journalist and newpaper editor, before serving as Truman's Press Secretary.) Learn more about Ross's unusual boyhood home. Jake G. , Zach P. and Brandie S. 7th Grade Platte County Middle School