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Clifton Daniel Family Home Movie, 1959-1960

E. Clifton Daniel's home movies showing his family, Margaret Truman, Clifton Truman Daniel, and William Wallace Daniel, as they visit the Truman and Wallace families in Independence and Grandview, MO; and also the Daniel family in North Carolina. Other people pictured include: former president Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, Vietta Garr, May Wallace, George Wallace, Natalie Wallace, Frank Wallace, E. Clifton Daniel, Sr., and Elvah Daniel.

Screen Gems Collection (outtakes from the television series "Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman")

Merle Miler interviews former president Harry S. Truman. They discuss the 1948 campaign, Margaret and Bess's involvement in it, the whistle stop tour, inaccurate press coverage of it, watching the 1948 RNC, and the inaccurate polling. He also reviews the campaigns of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, and Andrew Jackson. Sound and picture.