Bess Truman
Bess Truman
Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Trumanwas the wife of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth13 February 1885
CityIndependence, MO
CountryUnited States of America
book cards different
I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.
marriage hands years
Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.
nuts half ghost
Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.
daughter years president
[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.
wedding church division
You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.