FIRST LADY BESS W. TRUMAN - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 164502
Price: $220.00
BESS TRUMAN
Small black and white publicity photograph of Bess Truman wearing a
pearl necklace and earrings.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Richard Verost/from/Bess W.
Truman". B/w, 5x7 overall, image 4½x5¼ (one surface). In 1919, 35-year-old
Harry S Truman married 34-year-old Elizabeth "Bess" Wallace. When six-year old
Harry Truman first met five-year-old Bess Wallace in a Sunday School class at
the First Presbyterian Church in Independence, Missouri. Harry later said it was
love at first sight. At his death in 1972, Harry and Bess Truman had been
married for 53 years but they had known each other for an incredible 82 years!
On her first day in the White House, First Lady Bess Truman made
breakfast, made the bed, washed dishes, dusted, vacuumed and then read a
detective novel, The Crimson Claw. Unlike her predecessor, Eleanor
Roosevelt, she gave no press conferences and usually responded to any questions
with a terse: "No comment". She tried to curb her husband's salty, blunt
language. When one society matron complained that the President had used the
word "manure" in public, Bess replied that it had taken her 20 years to get him
to say "manure". At her death in 1982 at 97, she had lived longer than any
other First Lady. Fine condition.
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