Truman’s Daughter Dies at 83
Margaret Truman Daniel, the president’s daughter whose achievements as a concert singer, radio and television host, and author of best-selling biographies and mysteries won her renown in her own right, died on Tuesday in Chicago. Mrs. Daniel, who had long lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, was 83.
Her death was announced by her son Clifton T. Daniel.
Mrs. Daniel died after a brief illness, according to a statement from the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Mo. She had been living in an assisted living facility for the past several weeks and was on a respirator, the library said.
Most Americans first knew Margaret Truman as the young woman with blue-green eyes, ash-blond hair, flawless complexion and dimpled cheeks who was the only child of Harry S. Truman, the somewhat obscure vice president from Missouri who ascended to the presidency on the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1945, as World War II neared its end.
Before long, they were following her career as the aspiring singer whose doting father sprang to her defense with a memorably scorching letter to a Washington music critic who had the temerity to belittle her talent....
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Her death was announced by her son Clifton T. Daniel.
Mrs. Daniel died after a brief illness, according to a statement from the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Mo. She had been living in an assisted living facility for the past several weeks and was on a respirator, the library said.
Most Americans first knew Margaret Truman as the young woman with blue-green eyes, ash-blond hair, flawless complexion and dimpled cheeks who was the only child of Harry S. Truman, the somewhat obscure vice president from Missouri who ascended to the presidency on the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1945, as World War II neared its end.
Before long, they were following her career as the aspiring singer whose doting father sprang to her defense with a memorably scorching letter to a Washington music critic who had the temerity to belittle her talent....