Conversation among Harry S. Truman, Merle Miller, David Noyes, and William Hillman, Tape 4, Side B. These tapes were the basis of the book "Plain Speaking." See finding aid for Merle Miller tapes for detailed information and description. This recording deals with such subjects as: Father Tiernan (chaplain for Battery D); New York City; witch hunting and hysteria in the United States; Mormons; Ku Klux Klan in Jackson County, Missouri.
Conversation among Harry S. Truman, Merle Miller, David Noyes, and William Hillman, Tape 4, Side A. These tapes were the basis of the book "Plain Speaking." See finding aid for Merle Miller tapes for detailed information and description. This recording deals with such subjects as: good orators; Truman's first political speech; the art of politics; national political conventions; the 1932, 1936, and 1944 presidential elections; Joseph Kennedy.
Conversation among Harry S. Truman, Merle Miller, David Noyes, and William Hillman, Tape 3. These tapes were the basis of the book "Plain Speaking." See finding aid for Merle Miller tapes for detailed information and description. This recording deals with such subjects as: the 1948 campaign; how he was helped by his Battery D boys.
Conversation among Harry S. Truman, Merle Miller, David Noyes, and William Hillman, Tape 2, Side B. These tapes were the basis of the book "Plain Speaking." See the Merle Miller Papers finding aid for detailed information and description. This recording deals with such subjects as: the writing of the Constitution; American government; weak Presidents; memories of William Jennings Bryan.
Conversation among Harry S. Truman, Merle Miller, David Noyes, and William Hillman, Tape 1, Side B. These tapes were the basis of the book "Plain Speaking." See finding aid for Merle Miller tapes for detailed information and description. This recording deals with such subjects as: decision to drop the atomic bomb; Mr. Truman's childhood and school days; Mr. Truman's parents; reading; his entry into politics; county judge; other presidents.
Conversation among Harry S. Truman, Merle Miller, David Noyes, and William Hillman, Tape 1, Side B. These tapes were the basis of the book "Plain Speaking." See finding aid for Merle Miller tapes for detailed information and description. Topics discussed on this tape include the Korean War; Civil War and Reconstruction in Kansas and Missouri; Point 4 program; and Truman Committee.
One of eleven reel-to-reel tapes, of interviews conducted by Merle Miller, from late 1961 to early 1962, with Harry Truman. Miller used these materials to help write Plain Speaking. Occasionally William Hillman and David Noyes also sit in on the interviews. From the Papers of Merle Miller. Duplicates a portion of Tape 8, Side A (SR94-13), beginning "General Marshal-in World War I," and ending "Truman quickly recognized his special quality."
Merle Miller interview with Harry S. Truman, William Hillman, and David Noyes, Tape 10, Side B. This is a duplicate of SR94-7. See finding aid for detailed description. Duplicates Tape 4, Side B, which itself duplicates part of Tape 1, Side A from the beginning to "counterfeits never last long."
Merle Miller interview with Harry S. Truman, William Hillman, and David Noyes is a duplicate of SR94-6. See separate finding aid for detailed description of these tapes. Duplicates Tape 4, Side A, which itself duplicates Tape 3. Three brief portions have been omitted, apparently inadvertently.