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FREEMASON PRESIDENT
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TRUMAN, HARRY S. Brief Typed Letter Signed, as President, to Freemason Ray
Baker Harris (“Dear Brother Harris”): “I appreciate very much your request to have the
Masonic Breakfast speech autographed by me. I am sending it back by hand—with
General Vaughan.” 1 page, 4to,White House stationery, with integral blank; faint marginal
discoloration from prior matting, short closed tear at upper edge, horizontal fold. (TFC)
Washington, 24 April 1952
[400/600]
“I DON’TTHINK ANYBODY COULD HAVEWONTHIS ELECTION”
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TRUMAN, HARRY S.Typed Letter Signed, as President, with 7-word holograph
postscript, to Congressman Maury Maverick, stating that, despite use of his letter in the
[1952 presidential] campaign, the odds were against [a Democratic] victory, and adding in a
holograph postscript: “When you’re up this way drop in.” 1 page, 4to, White House sta-
tionery, with integral blank; horizontal fold. (TFC)
Washington, 7 November 1952
[800/1,200]
“
We used your letter of October twenty-fourth during the campaign and the suggestions were
exceedingly helpful but the cards were stacked against us. I don’t think anybody could have won
this election.”
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