Sixty years ago, July 30, 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, former President Harry S. Truman and his wife, former First Lady Bess Truman, became the first ...

Michelle Obama taking three tries to break a champagne bottle on the nose of a submarine is charming and weirdly mesmerizing. But she isn’t the first First Lady to struggle a little with the old ...

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

Following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bess Truman was thrust into the role of first lady. Although she stopped Eleanor Roosevelt’s tradition of holding press conferences, Truman was ...

Vice President Harry Truman and his wife Bess were unexpectedly thrust into the global spotlight after FDR's death early in his fourth term. Truman presided over the conclusion of World War II and the ...