Last week marked a new uptick on coverage of the new First Lady – not for where she was, but where she wasn’t. She was only briefly spotted on the tarmac at Palm Beach, Florida, striking a pose, a political… Read More ›
The Trumans
Liz Taylor’s Bess Truman Shoe Story & Other White House Encounters
When they came together on January 7, 1946 for a scripted public service announcement over the CBS radio network, live from the ground-floor broadcast room of the White House, it seemed like there couldn’t be two more polar opposite individuals… Read More ›
JFK Shot: Other Presidents & First Ladies React
Like millions of people across the globe, there was horrified shock among those who had once held the position of President of the United States and First Lady, and most of those who would someday follow, when they heard the… Read More ›
First Family Photos on The Truman Balcony & the Myth Behind It
“If you can’t stand the heat,” President Harry Truman famously remarked about political life in Washington, “get out of the kitchen.” “And head to the balcony,” he might well have added. Last fall, President Obama made it quite clear. It… Read More ›
Bess Truman Rocks The Back Porch & Her Only Recorded Interview
Labor Day may have ended the ceremonial end of summer but its not official until September 21 and in certain parts of the country, the ninth month can be more beastly muggy than the eighth one. Few places seem more… Read More ›
Fighting Bigotry Shaped Truman’s 1948 Campaign Tunes (& Carmen Miranda Sang One)
In the fall of 1945, six months after inheriting the presidency upon the April death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman was back home in his beloved state of Missouri, visiting the county fair in the small town… Read More ›
Reagan Campaigns for Truman
Thirty-two years before he was elected as the most popular Republican President since Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan was out campaigning for one of his favorite Presidents – Democrat Harry Truman. In his capacity as President of the Screen Actors Guild,… Read More ›
What Franklin Roosevelt & Harry Truman Thought of Each Other
Distracted by his efforts to finish World War II in victory, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt headed into his presidential campaign for an unprecedented fourth term in 1944, seemed especially indifferent to who would be his running mate. Everyone around… Read More ›
Harry Truman & Tallulah Bankhead Bond over Bourbon…and Civil Rights, Part II
In the weeks following Truman’s defeat of Dewey in the 1948 presidential election, the actress Tallulah Bankhead was hitting a pinnacle of national fame. Already renowned for her work on stage and film, her political role only increased her visibility…. Read More ›
Harry Truman & Tallulah Bankhead Bond over Bourbon…and Civil Rights
One can’t find two names from politics and entertainment more seemingly dissimilar than that of President Harry S. Truman and actress Tallulah Bankhead. Yet apart from the fact that one was a marital monogamist and the other a bisexual minx,… Read More ›
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