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“LINCOLN PROBABLYWOULD HAVE BEEN IMPEACHED AS JOHNSONWAS”
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TRUMAN, HARRY S. Typed Letter Signed, as President, to author Lloyd Paul
Stryker, expressing thanks for sending an autographed copy of his book [
Andrew Johnson:A
Study in Courage
, 1929?], and agreeing with his speculation concerning the fate of President
Lincoln, had he not been assassinated. 1 page, 4to,White House stationery; horizontal fold.
(TFC)
Washington, 19 January 1952
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“
. . .Andrew Johnson was probably one of the most mistreated Presidents and in your introduc-
tion when you say that Lincoln probably would have been impeached as Johnson was, if he had
tried to carry out his program, you are just as true as you can be.
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My hobby is, and always has been, the lives of administrators in public service.Your research
and truthful statements about Andrew Johnson are a great contribution to American history. . . .”
A “NUT” FORGES LETTERTO PRESIDENT FROM PENDERGAST
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TRUMAN, HARRY S. Typed Letter Signed, “Harry,” as President, to James M.
Pendergast (“My dear Jim”), enclosing a letter addressed to “H.S. Truman” and signed “J.
Pendergast” [present], and acknowledging it to be a forgery. 1 page, 4to,White House sta-
tionery, with integral blank; faint band of toning along left edge, horizontal fold.With the
original envelope. (TFC)
Washington, 16 August 1952
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I am enclosing you a spasm which came to me a day or two ago.You can see plainly that it is
a forgery. I wish I could catch up with the bird who wrote it. I’d treat him in the manner in
which he is entitled to be treated.You wonder sometimes what causes the ‘nuts’ to click.”
WITH
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Manuscript letter, in an unknown hand, signed “J. Pendergast,” to Truman: “Well,
Harry, are you enjoying yourself? . . . How quick and often you are changing your Mind in
your Statements. I know your ‘Friends’ Maj. Gen.Vaughan (5%) and Dwyer in Mexico will
feel terribly bad about your Quitting.” 1 page, small 4to.With the original envelope. Chicago,
31 July 1952 [from postmark].
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TRUMAN, HARRY S.
Mr. Citizen.
Signed, on limitation page. 8vo, publisher’s
maroon cloth; original slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION
, number 846 of 1000 signed copies.
(MRS)
(NewYork, 1960)
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