TY - BOOK AU - AU - Thompson, Kenneth W., ED - ED - ED - ED - TI - : intimate perspectives SN - 0819136980 (alk. paper) :;0819136999 (pbk. : alk. paper) : SN - 2 PY - 1984///];copyright 198446 CY - Lanham, MD PB - University of Press America KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - Politics and government KW - United States KW - 1945-1953.20 N1 - Introduction / Kenneth W. Thompson -- Preserving the free world / Clark M. Clifford -- Views of a fellow Missourian / John W. Snyder -- The presidential assistant / John R. Steelman -- Personnel for the Truman White House / Ken Hechler -- The Truman budget / Elmer B. Staats -- The great foreign policy decisions / Robert J. Donovan -- The foreign policymaking process / Lucius D. Battle -- Bipartisanship in foreign policy / Francis O. Wilcox -- Truman and national security / Frank Pace -- The influence of Harry S. Truman on the Marshall Plan / W. Averell Harriman -- Truman, an appraisal / Francis Heller -- Concluding note / Kenneth W. Thompson; 5 ER -