id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-11646 Lagerquist, Philip D. The Harry S. Truman Library as a Center for Research on the American Presidency 1964-01-01 5 .pdf application/pdf 3220 120 53 The Library of Congress, our greatest manuscript-holding institution, has, at present, twenty-three collections of presidential papers, sixteen of these being 32 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES of a substantial nature. In his Memoirs Mr. Truman states that the one great external influence which, more than anything else, nourished and sustained [my] interest in government and public service was the endless reading of history which I began as a boy and which I have kept up ever since. cache/crl-11646.pdf txt/crl-11646.txt