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Rufus B. Burrus Oral History Interviews

   

Oral History Interviews with
Rufus B. Burrus

Longtime friend and legal counselor to Harry S. Truman; assistant county counselor, 1927-41; member, U.S. Army Reserve, 1927-75; officer in U.S. Army in World War II; attorney in private practice, 1921 to present.
Interview Transcripts
October 22, 1985 | November 8, 1985 | November 20, 1985
by Niel M. Johnson, Harry S. Truman Library

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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.

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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 They may not be published in full except by permission of the Harry S. Truman Library.

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 List of Subjects Discussed

 

 
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X-Y-Z

Acheson, Dean, 249, 273
Adams, Robert, 257, 271, 274
American Bar Association, 227-228
Aylward, James, 165-166

Bailey, Eugene, 257-258
Bartle, H. Roe, 219-220
Barr, Robert, 139, 140-141
Barrett, Edward, 218-219
Bash, Thomas, 142-144
Beets, Ila, 22
Becker, Eddie, 138
Bell, Harvey, 4, 7, 26
Benton, Aseneth, 4
Biddle, Francis, 213-214
Blackburn, L. F., 7
Blair, James, 216
Boyle, William, 223-224
Boxley, Fred, 50-51
Brannan, Charles, 249
Brooks, Philip, 206
Bryan, William Jennings, 135
Bulger, Miles, 31, 46
Bundschu, Henry, 39-40, 65, 134
Burnett, Jeremiah, 12-13
Burrus, Florence, 23-24
Burrus, Harvey, 11
Burrus, Helen, 11, 142
Burrus, James M. Jr ., 1, 9-10, 12, 26-28
Burrus, Olney F., 1, 12
Burrus, Rufus B. 1, 14-17
Burrus, Rufus II, 101
Burrus, Sadie Bell, 1, 3, 9-10
Burrus, Sybil, 11
Byam, Lester, 155-157, 177-178
Byrnes, James, 189-190, 215

Caldwell, Thomas, 99
Callahan, James M., 15-16
Canfil, Fred, 110-111, 188-189
Carrol, Ed, 32
Clark, Bennett, 141, 159, 164-166
Clark, Mark, 266
Clark, Tom, 193-195
Churchill, Winston, 176
Clifford, Clark, 123
Community Savings and Loan Association, 42-43, 59-60, 62-64

Darby, Harry, 202, 273
DeRamus, William, 113-114
Dickey, Walter S., 41-42
Dryden, L.T., 166
Duncan, Richard, 167, 212-213

Early, Steve, 119-123
Eisenhower, Dwight David, 200-210, 262, 273
Evans, Tom, 202, 233

Fort Leonard Wood, 85, 106, 169-171
Fort Riley, 83, 88-93
443rd Regiment, 82-88

Garr, Vietta, 258
“Gerrymandering”, 151-153
Gibson, Floyd, 221-222
Graham, Wallace, 104-106
Griswold, Dwight, 89
“Goats”, 38-39, 50-52

Hall, Joyce, 200-201, 209, 262
Hannegan, Robert, 189
Harriman, Averell W., 132, 188, 247-249
Harris Family Reunions, 13-14
Harris, Rhoda, 12-13
Harris, Rueben, 12
Harris, William, 12-13
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

  • Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National and International Affairs, 249
    Hill, Delmas, 183
    Hinde, Edgar, 34
    Hoover, Herbert, 274-276
    Hoover, J. Edgar, 216
    Huie, William, 229
    Hyde, Judge, 231

Jackson, Henry “Scoop”, 247
Jacobson, Edward, 34, 66-67
Johnson, Clark, 144
Johnson, Lyndon B., 208, 269, 271-272, 277

Kansas City Automobile Club, 43
Kansas City Club, 231-232, 250
Kansas City Journal, 41-42, 58
Kansas City Star, 42, 58, 59, 137
Kansas City School of Law, 5, 16, 97-98
Kansas City Southern Railroad, 113-115
Kelley, Madelyn, 141-142
Kennedy, John F., 208, 246-247
Kitchen, William, 160-161
Kilnoman, Edna, 101
Korea , 128-130, 132, 186

Lamb, Don, 224-226
Lazia, Johnnie, 139, 154

MacArthur, Douglas, 199-200
Mag, Arthur, 235-237
Marshall, George, 199, 209
Masons, 95, 99-100, 277-278
Massman, Henry, 232
McCarthy, Joe, 209
McConnell, Anna Margaret (nee Burrus), 12-13
McElroy, Henry, 42, 58, 59, 139
McGee, Joseph, Jr., 260
McKim, Edward, 87
Medicare Ceremony, 269-271
Mesker, Arthur, 140
Messall, Victor, 173
Miles, John, 32, 39
Miller, Richard L., 41, 137
Miller, Merle, 194, 196-199
Milligan, Maurice, 158-159, 164
Milligan, Tuck, 140, 158
Missouri Bar Association, 127, 224-228
Montgomery, Emmett, 38

Nelson, William Rockhill, 42
Nichols, J.C., 59
Nixon, Richard M., 268, 276-277
Noland, Harriet, 1

Page, James, 147-148
Park College, 1-3, 7, 9, 10
Patti, Salvadore, 232
Patton, George, 93-94
Pendergast, James, 33-34, 156, 178
Pendergast, Mike, 32-33
Pendergast, Tom, 31-33, 38, 47, 53-57, 109, 138, 148-151, 155-156, 171
Perlman, Phillip, 195
Pryor, John, 145-147

Quinn, Mike,

“Rabbits”, 40, 42, 49-50, 52, 134, 143, 158
Rayburn, Sam, 208
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 114, 116-117, 184-185
Reserve Officers Association, 43, 131, 188, 192-194, 223
Roberts, Roy, 42, 203-204
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 213-215
Roosevelt, Theodore, 27-28
Rosenman, Samuel, 235-236
Rummell, Henry, 40, 42, 134

Salisbury, Spencer, 62-65, 140-141
Sanders, Ted, 188
Sermon, Roger, 178-181
Slaughter, Roger, 216-218
Shake Rag Church, 8
Smith, Forest, 219
Sni-a-Bar Voice, 6
Snyder, Floyd, 11
Snyder, John W., 87, 115-116, 129, 133, 173-174, 250, 262
Spann, Bill, 145
Stark, Lloyd, 158-159, 165, 171-173
Stayton, Edward, 54, 56, 76, 144-145
Stevenson, Adlai, 246
Stevenson, Charles, 200-201
Sturgis, Harry, 32
Susskind, David, 198-199
Symington, Stuart, 247-248

Tipton, Ernest, 176
Truman, Bess (nee Wallace), 18, 100, 103-104, 210, 259-262, 265
Truman Committee, 104
Truman, Harry S.:

Vaughn, Harry, 87, 118, 123, 173-177
Veatch, N. T., 54, 56, 76, 144-145
Vietnam War, 271-272

Wallace, Frank, 18-20, 25, 32, 38
Wallace, Frederick, 18, 129-130
Wallace, Henry, 190, 215-216
Warren, Earl, 249-250
White, Harry Dexter, 195
Wogan, Father, 162
Welch, Casimer, 158
Westminster College, 176

Young, Solomon, 241

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