Truman & Johnson
There are a few stamps on this album page about which I could write. The two most prominent ones, though, are of Presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson.
Harry Truman
Truman was the thirty-third president of the U.S. He was a simple kind of guy from Missouri where he ran a haberdashery that failed with a friend. He lived in a house on a farm that his mother-in-law owned. He was elected in 1935 to the U.S. Senate and served for ten years. In 1944, President Franklin Roosevelt was running for his fourth term, but given his age and health, he and top party officials suspected he would not live until the end of his next term in office. They didn’t want the Vice President from his then current term to continue on to the presidency. They found him to be too liberal. They decided that Truman had a clean record and was moderate in his political views. He ran for VP with Roosevelt. They won and Truman was sworn into office in January 1945. Three months later Roosevelt died and Truman became president.
Truman oversaw the end of World War II in the Pacific, ordering the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan. His administration administered the rebuilding of Europe, including Germany and Italy, as well as rebuilding Japan, the Philippines, and other smaller countries in Asia. He was re-elected in 1948, which led to him being Commander and Chief at the start of the Korean War. He also championed the reconstruction of the White House, which was collapsing.
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson, in my opinion, was a jerk. He was a congressman from Texas – first a Representative and then a Senator – a very powerful and pushy congressman serving for about twenty-four years. From stories I’ve heard from people who knew him and those around him, he bullied John Kennedy into making him his Vice President in the 1960 election. When Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, he became the thirty-sixth president.
To his credit, though, Johnson was instrumental in passing plenty of legistlation to the benefit of many people. He got the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed. He passed legistlation creating Medicare for the elderly, and Medicaid for the poor. He provided federal funding for education and enforced school integration. He founded the Department of Transportation, making its head a Cabinet position and a priority. The list of Johnson’s accomplishments are long.
Note
The stamp of Truman is well done. I don’t care much for the one of Johnson. Similarly, I like the one of Copernicus. I also like the colorful stamps celebrating rural America. They’re nice looking.
Contains 11 spots: own 11 – 11 unused, 0 used.
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Album or Web Page Last changed May 4, 2025
Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ |
1499 |
8c (may 1973) |
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✓ |
1503 |
8c (aug 1973) |
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✓ |
1500 |
6c (jul 1973) |
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✓ |
1501 |
8c (jul 1973) |
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✓ |
1502 |
15c (jul 1973) |
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✓ |
1488 |
8c (apr 1973) |
Christmas & Holidays
✓ |
1507 |
Small Cowper Madonna |
8c (nov 1973) |
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✓ |
1508 |
8c (nov 1973) |
Other
✓ |
1504 |
8c (oct 1973) |
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✓ |
1506 |
10c (aug 1974) |
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✓ |
1505 |
10c (aug 1974) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.
