![]() Harry and Eddie: The Recognition of Israel World to meet with Churchill and Stalin, but weasel out of mowing the lawn. Terrible babysitter and subversive husband who would travel halfway around the The architect of the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine and the Berlin Airlift was a Gammy and Grandpa: Growing Up Around Harry and Bess Truman Despite Bess’s shy and self-effacing manner, her lively correspondence offers a glimpse of a caring and witty woman who shared her concerns about family, politics, and day-to-day activities with her husband. ![]() These letters provide new insight into the lives and personalities of Bess and Harry Truman during the formative years of his political life. Her grandson Clifton Truman Daniel shares them here, along with portions of Harry’s responses, family photographs, and stories. While making an inventory of the Truman home in the 1980s, archivists discovered 180 letters Bess had missed. “Oh, I have,” she said and tossed in another stack.īess Truman thought her business was hers and nobody else’s, so she destroyed her half of the more than 2,600 letters she and Harry exchanged during their courtship and marriage. “What are you doing? Think of history,” he said. ![]() ![]() One evening in 1955, Harry Truman came home to find Bess burning her letters to him. Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman’s Letters to Harry Truman, 1919-1943 ![]()
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