Word: margarete
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...Episcopal service, although a Baptist minister and a Masonic leader also participated (Truman, past Masonic Grand Master, was baptized in the Baptist church at age 18; Bess is an Episcopalian). At Truman's request, no hymns were sung and there was no eulogy. Bess and her daughter Margaret watched the ceremony from behind a green curtain that screened them from the 242 invited mourners, all relatives or close friends of the family. At the burial site in the library courtyard-a spot Truman had selected 15 years ago-a frail but composed Bess accepted the folded flag that...
...still took his early-morning walks (at the military quicktime pace of 120 steps a minute), to the distress of Secret Service men and reporters trying to stay awake and keep up with him. When a Washington critic said some unpleasant things about the singing talent of his daughter Margaret ("my baby"), he dashed off a letter which said, in part: "I have just finished reading your lousy review. I never met you, but if I do you'll need a new nose and plenty of beefsteak and perhaps a supporter below...
...MARGARET TRUMAN was not only very close to her father, she also attentively followed his career. In an affectionate biography published by William Morrow & Co., she provides some insights and asides to the official record...
Truman's relations with Franklin Roosevelt were always ambivalent. Though F.D.R. would later select Truman as his Vice President, in 1940, Margaret reveals, he tried to dump Truman from the U.S. Senate. Harry resisted and defended his relationship to Kansas City's Pendergast machine...
Truman was never torn by ambition. He did not particularly want to be Vice President in 1944 when word went out that F.D.R. was interested. Margaret shows how Roosevelt maneuvered him into the job against his will. First, F.D.R. had to get rid of two contenders, Vice President Henry Wallace and James Byrnes...