Letter from Secretary of War Henry Stimson to President Harry S. Truman
4/24/1945
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Secretary of War Henry Stimson wrote this letter to President Truman within two weeks of the death of President Franklin Roosevelt and Truman's swearing-in. Although Stimson does not mention it by name, the Manhattan Project is the highly secret matter he wished to discuss with the President.
Text adapted from “Connecting with the Past” in the November/December 2003 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) publication Social Education.
Text adapted from “Connecting with the Past” in the November/December 2003 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) publication Social Education.
This primary source comes from the Collection HST-CF: Confidential Files (Truman Administration).
National Archives Identifier: 4529713
Full Citation: Letter from Secretary of War Henry Stimson to President Harry S. Truman; 4/24/1945; War Department [1 of 5, 1945]; Confidential Subject Files, 1945 - 1953; Collection HST-CF: Confidential Files (Truman Administration); Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, MO. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/documents/document/stimson-letter, September 9, 2024]Activities that use this document
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