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Oral History Interviews with
Edward D. McKim
Served under Capt. Harry S. Truman, Battery D, 129th Field Artillery Regiment, 1917-19, and, subsequently in the U.S. Army Reserve Corps with Mr. Truman. Chief Administrative Assistant to the President (1945) and Administrative Assistant to the Federal Loan Administrator (1945); member of the Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Company, 1950-53; and close personal friend of Mr. Truman since World War I.
Interview Transcripts
February 17 | & February 19, 1964
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[Notices and Restrictions | List of Subjects Discussed]
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 They may not be published in full except by permission of the Harry S. Truman Library.
List of Subjects Discussed
Allen, Captain Charles, 7, 8, 9
Allen, Charles B., 2
Allen, George, 112, 118, 127, 128-129, 144, 163
Allen, Pete, 2
American Legion Conventions:
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- Andrews, T. Coleman, 159, 160
Army and Navy Surplus Property Board, 132, 133-136
Aylward, James P., 58, 59
Barry, Francis, 31
Battle of Dugny, 78-79, 81
"Battle of Who Ran" (World War I), 18-19
Bendetsen, Karl R., 160
Berg, Archbishop Gerald T., 168
Board of Election Commissioners, 5
Bowman, Fred, 118-119
Boyle, William, 91-92
Brannon, Francis A., 15
Breen, William H., 15
Brice, George, 33
Burke, Edward, 77-78
Butler, Paul, 164
Byrnes, James F., 97, 98
Camp Coetquidon, 15, 22
Camp Doniphan, 2, 14
Camp Ripley, 50, 73, 74
Canfil, Fred, 36, 37, 63-65, 110
Carpenter, Terry, 61, 62
Central High School, 28
Cheppy Orchard (France), 17-18
Chow, Albert, 139
Cochran, Governor Roy, 35-36
Conboy, Francis L., 15
Condon, Ed, 82-83
Connelly, Matthew, 113, 118, 124, 147
Creighton University (Omaha.), 167-168
Davis, William, 121, 122, 123
DeLasalle Academy, 2, 13, 15
Dickmann, Bernard F., 36, 72
Dobel, Riley E., 15
Donnelly, Jiggs, 26, 32
Doorly, Henry, 149
Drum, Robert, 147, 148
Duncan, Richard, 89-90
Early, Stephen, 127
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 129, 130, 131, 142, 155
England, Clarence, 42
Eppley, Eugene, 150, 151
Evans, Milton R., 23
Evans, Tom L., 100, 101, 116-117, 118
Fawcett, William, 52-53
Fisher, Frank, 49
Flaherty, Daniel L., 15
Flannigan, Mike, 60
Ft. Riley, 29
Ft. Sill, 3
French Lick Springs, Indiana, 37
Fulton, Hugh, 113, 118, 126
Garner, John Nance, 111
Griswold, Dwight, 72-74
Guffey, Senator Joseph, 37, 38-39
Hannegan, Robert E., 72, 98, 101, 127
"Henry Stanley" (railroad car), 111
Higginbotham, John J., 15
Hoffman, Frank G., 21
Hopkins, Harry, 38
Householder, Victor, 79-80, 81
Hughes, Maj. General Everett, 172
Ickes, Harold, 38, 85-86
Jackson County (Mo.) campaign and election of 1922, 42-44
Jacobson, Edward, 14, 30-31
Kansas City Post, 8
Kennedy, John F., 164-166
Kenny, Robert, 139
Kirby, William, 76
Klemm, Colonel Karl D., 20-21, 25, 34
Knowlson, James, 132
Ku Klux Klan, 45-46
McCabe, Thomas, 132, 134-135
McDonald, Fred, 13, 15
McKim, Edward D.:
- Army and Navy Surplus Property Board, 132, 133-135
and 1944 Democratic National Convention, 96-104
and 1956 Democratic National Convention, 163-164
demotion in rank, World War I, 11
Foamite Fire Foam Company, 28
insurance field, 29
Jackson County (Mo.) campaign and election (1922), 42-43
Lt. Governor of Nebraska, candidacy for, 61
Missouri National Guard, recruitment for, 5
Nebraska legislature, files for, 58
Nebraska legislature, election to and service in, 60-61, 63
oilfields, worker in, 27
Omaha, moves to, 47
as poker player, 51
Truman, Harry S., advice to, on candidacy for Congress (1934), 57-58
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