President Truman at the Roosevelt Hotel

ID: 1287 ~ Source: Naman, Wilford Wolfie, interviewed by Thomas Lee Charlton, Roger Sanders, Gaines West, and Stephen Carsey, March 22, 1973, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. 
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Wilford Wolfie Naman explains his experience meeting President Truman at a reception at the Roosevelt Hotel.

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