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Harry S. Truman Receives Ivory Cane and Gives it to the Library

93-210
Accession Number
93-210
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
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NAID 350878640
Keywords
Ex-presidents
Airports
Gifts
Presidential libraries
HST Keywords
Airports - Kansas City Municipal; Truman - Clothes - Various - Canes; Truman - Gifts - Clothes - Canes - Hershfield, Harry; Truman - Planes - Aboard -1958
People Pictured
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
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Associated Press

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Description
Kansas City, MO. Former President Harry S. Truman, arriving at Kansas City Municipal Airport today after a visit in the east, displays an ivory walking stick presented to him by humorist Harry Hershfield. The stick reportedly was once owned by President Ulysses S. Grant. The Harry S. Truman Library commented that if its history is correct the cane was given to Grant in 1879 by Li Chang, then prime minister of China. From: Houston Post.
Date(s)
January 15, 1958