New exhibit at Truman Museum tells the rest of the story

Monday, January 5, 2004

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Wherever life and politics took him, there was one constant for Harry S. Truman: Bess Wallace, the childhood sweetheart who became his wife and eventually the first lady of the United States.

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