December 26, 1972. After weeks of hospitalization, President Harry S. Truman dies at 88. President Truman and his wife, Bess, are buried in the courtyard of the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in ...

It can be a cruel slog, getting older, but occasionally you crest a hill and happily discover that you have aged into something, rather than the opposite. That happened for John Pritchard, 65, a ...

Letters show one of the greatest marriages in U.S. political history. Oct. 15, 2009— -- Michelle and Barack. Bill and Hillary. George and Laura. For many Americans, mention of these famous first ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Family papers detailing the private life of former first lady Bess Wallace Truman were released Friday, with no apparent bombshells about the wife of President Harry Truman in the ...

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 ...