On Washington Unplugged Friday, Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of former President Harry S. Truman, discussed his grandmother Bess Truman's decision to burn 1,300 of her letters to her husband for ...

Coming soon: a new Bess Truman. Truman Library officials are observing the 125th birthday anniversary of the famously private first lady by releasing or describing documents detailing her personal ...

WASHINGTON -- One evening near Christmas in 1955, Harry Truman walked into his Independence, Mo., home to find his wife tossing stacks of old letters into the blazing hearth. He looked stricken. A ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Coming soon: a new Bess Truman. Truman Library officials this week are observing the 125th birthday anniversary of the famously private former first lady by releasing or ...

Mrs. Rosalynn Smith Carter, former First Lady, will be the speaker at the Bess Truman Tea at the Truman Presidential Library at 4 p.m. Feb. 13. This event is presented by the Independence Pioneers ...

First lady Melania Trump isn’t alone in recent history to walk to a different social and activist beat in the nation’s capital — with her young son as her first priority. For a similar reason, ...

A local author has shed new light on Harry Truman’s wife Bess, who despite her traditional conventions in public was, like Harry, one for whom the buck stopped in private. Neosho native Sara L. Sale ...