June 2001

Remembering When ...

Former President Truman greets visitors in the
Kansas City Fed's lobby during the bank's
40th anniversary celebration in 1954.

Former President Harry S. Truman once occupied an office on the 11th floor of the Kansas City Fed. Following his second term as president, Truman leased office space in the bank from April 1953 until July 1957, when the presidential library in Independence, Mo., was completed.

During this period, the former president wrote his two-volume set of memoirs: Year of Decision (1955) and Years of Trial and Hope (1956).

The Buck (or Coin) Stops Here

The Truman Coin Collection, containing samples of nearly all the 463 coins issued by the U.S. Mint during presidential administrations from George Washington through Jimmy Carter, is on display at the Kansas City Fed's Money Museum.

On loan from the Truman Library, the collection is a reconstruction of one initially owned by John Snyder, President Truman's Treasury Secretary and close friend. When that original collection was stolen in 1962, a national campaign was mounted to replace the coins. And in 1964 Snyder and the New York coin dealer who spearheaded the effort presented the restored collection to the Truman Library.

To learn more about the Truman Coin Collection and other pieces on display at the Kansas City Fed's Money Museum, go to www.kansascityfed.org.

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