INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Coming soon: a new Bess Truman. Truman Library officials this week are observing the 125th birthday anniversary of the famously private former first lady by releasing or ...

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 ...

Bess Truman had grown used to the lurking Secret Service men, the brass and braid and cutaways and gowns, the flashbulbs, limousines, interviews and stares. Benefits, teas, parties, receptions, ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- At the Independence home of Harry and Bess Truman, Vietta Garr prepared dinner and served it. Over decades of such service at the Truman home and the White House, however, she ...