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Michelle Obama taking three tries to break a champagne bottle on the nose of a submarine is charming and weirdly mesmerizing. But she isn’t the first First Lady to struggle a little with the old ...

Vice President Harry Truman and his wife Bess were unexpectedly thrust into the global spotlight after FDR's death early in his fourth term. Truman presided over the conclusion of World War II and the ...

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 ...

President Harry S. Truman, on a national whistle-stop campaign, had reached Tulsa, where 100,000 turned out to greet him -- his largest crowd since his train left the West Coast. Confetti and paper ...